Jennifer Aniston had no trouble voicing her displeasure with Angelina Jolie's public display of her relationship with Brad Pitt, labeling it ‘uncool’. Aniston and Pitt, were a well-known
Jason Merritt/Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesIt's time, everyone. We know it's so easy to bring up what happened between Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston whenever anyone talks about them or writes about them. But, c'mon. This feud or rivalry or whatever you want to call it with Jen and Angelina needs to be dead and buried. Why? Glad you asked: 1. It's been nine DeGuire/Getty ImagesYep. It's been nine years since Brad and Jen divorced. As in, almost a decade. Why are we still talking about something that happened nearly a decade ago? Well, we did just bring up Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch in 2005 because he was so in love with Katie Holmes. But that was for nostalgia's sake. Also, that was an insane They are both happily married and/or engaged to other Merritt/Getty ImagesIn case you missed the big news (if so, how did you do that? Teach us your ways): Brad and Angelina are now married! And Jen has been engaged to Justin Theroux since 2012. That doesn't exactly scream: "I'm still thinking about my ex-husband!" or "I'm still thinking about my man's ex-wife!" does it? 3. It's insulting to Jen and Aniston and Angelina Jolie are strong, beautiful and fascinating women. Why does a feud from nine years ago still seem to be the most important thing about either of them? 4. It's insulting to Brad and ImagesSeriously. How would you like if it you were constantly compared to the person your girlfriend/wife was with before? The more the feud is brought up, the more we are saying that Brad and Jen are more important than Justin and Jen and Brad and Angie. Can't we all just focus on how hot they both are?! We can focus on other things, too, but mostly...they're both super There are much more important things we can talk about regarding Jen and their careers. Or all their philanthropic efforts. Or literally anything else. 6. This can't be healthy for their probably not great for Brad and Ang's children and Justin and Jen's future children to grow up in a world where everyone keeps bringing up an upsetting and uncomfortable situation involving their parents. 7. It's Merritt/Getty Images; time we checked, there was a man involved with what happened back in 2005. So why does Jen and Angie get the brunt of the gossip? 8. They've moved ImagesThey are with other people. They've moved on. So should everyone else. But if you still need your famous couples fix, here are some other adorable celeb pairings you can obsess over: • Emily Blunt and John Krasinski• Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi• Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson• Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher• Alison Brie and Dave Franco• Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka• Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield • Beyoncé and Jay Z• Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde• Matt Bomer and Simon Halls Yay for love and moving on!
Back in 2004, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (married to Jennifer Aniston at the time) would make out in their trailers and pass ‘sexual’ love notes on set of 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' their former
We're gonna need a bigger room ... is what Critics' Choice Awards planners must have been saying with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie showing up at the same event for the first time in years. The ex and current Mrs. Pitt were actually photographed together -- several dozens of feet apart -- in a wide shot of the room ... making it clear someone (who wants to remain employed) was careful to seat them as far away as possible from each other. We're told there were no chance run-ins between them during the show -- their first close encounter since the 2009 Oscars. For the record ... both women lost last night. Although Justin Theroux was with Jennifer ... Angie was riding solo. Brad's no dummy.
From his famous marriages to 'Friends' actress Jennifer Aniston and his 'Mr and Mrs Smith' co-star Angelina Jolie to his new girlfriend Ines De Ramon, this is the complete dating history of BradWhile it's been 15 years since we last saw Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt as a couple, their romance is definitely one for the history books. Although the couple was only together for seven years (and married for five!), their A-list relationship did not end with their divorce in 2005. Between their one million dollar wedding, his guest appearance on "Friends" and their iconic reunion in 2020, here is everything you need to know about Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's relationship. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston first met in 1994, however they didn't begin dating until proposed to Jennifer in 1999 and they wed the following five years of marriage, the couple announced their split in early 2005. Brad went on to date and wed actress Angelina Jolie while Jennifer wed Justin both went on to divorce their spouses and have since remained close friends. Most recently, they starred alongside each other during a virtual table read in 2020 (and played some flirty characters on screen!) 1994: A Casual Meeting Unlike their romance, their first meeting was quite casual. The pair met sometime in 1994 via their managers, who happened to be friends. "He was just this sweet guy from Missouri, you know?” she told Rolling Stone in 2001. “A normal guy.” 1998: The First Date Their relationship wouldn't turn romantic until their first date four years later. Brad had just broken up with actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer called it quits with actor Tate Donovan, prompting their managers to set up a date. In 2004, Jen later told Diane Sawyer that the "evening was really easy" and the date "was really fun." September 12, 1999: Red Carpet Debut Getty Images The sparks were ever so present on their first date so the couple dove right into a relationship. They walked for the red carpet together for the first time at the 51st Primetime Emmy Awards, confirming relationship rumors in the process. November 29, 1999: Rocking an Engagement Ring Getty Images While attending a Sting concert together on November 29, 1999, the Hollywood stars took the stage to show off Jennifer's new accessory: an engagement ring! The actor reportedly spent $500,000 on the custom bauble, which boasted plenty of diamonds set in a unique circular shape. July 29, 2000: The Wedding of the Year Getty Images The biggest celebrity wedding of 2000 was undoubtedly Brad and Jen's summer nuptials. The couple wed on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu in front of 200 guests. Brad wanted the private estate venue to look like a Zen garden so he ordered 50,000 roses, wisteria, tulips, and lotus flowers. A flawless bride, Jen wore a glass-beaded, low back wedding gown by Lawrence Steele down the aisle and the newlyweds danced to "The Way You Look Tonight." The over-the-top affair (complete with a 40-person gospel choir, lobster meal, champagne, and a Melissa Etheridge performance) ended with a 13-minute firework show—and cost the couple roughly $1 million. November 22, 2001: Guest Starring on "Friends" The couple acted alongside each other in 2001 when Brad made a guest appearance on Jen's hit sitcom "Friends." The episode, called "The One With The Rumor," aired on November 22, 2001, and Brad's character actually hated Rachel Green, who was famously played by his wife. February 1, 2003: Is He the Love of Her Life? Getty Images When asked if Brad was the love her life during Jennifer's cover interview for W Magazine in 2003 she responded with, "Is he the love of my life? I think you’re always sort of wondering, ‘Are you the love of my life?’ I mean, I don’t know, I’ve never been someone who says, ‘He’s the love of my life.’ He’s certainly a big love in my life," she told the publication. “And I know that we have something special, especially in all this chaos. In this nutty, brilliant, wonderful, hard business that we have, it’s nice to have somebody who’s anchored and knows you, really knows all of you.” February 2004: Baby Fever With the end of Jennifer's time on "Friends" looming, the actress told The Guardian she was ready to have a baby with her husband of nearly four years. "It's time. It's time. You know, I think you can work with a baby, I think you can work pregnant, I think you can do all of it. So I'm just truly looking forward to slowing down," she said at the time. May 2004: Mr. and Mrs. Smith Getty Images Despite Jen's baby fever earlier in the year, by May 2004 cheating rumors between Brad and his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie began to swirl. In 2006, Jolie recounted to Vogue how she and Brad began to fall in love on-set of the film, saying, “Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, ‘God, I can’t wait to get to work.’ … Anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair. It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe. And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.” January 7, 2005: An Unfortunate Separation After a nearly 5-year marriage and seven-year relationship, Brad and Jennifer announced their split to People on January 24, 2005. The statement read: “We would like to announce that after seven years together we have decided to formally separate. For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media. This decision is the result of much thoughtful consideration. We happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another. We ask in advance for your kindness and sensitivity in the coming months.” March 25, 2005: Filing the Paperwork Jennifer filed for divorce from Brad on March 25, 2005. September 2005: Jen Addresses the Divorce Getty Images While Brad began to flaunt his relationship with actress Angelina Jolie immediately after announcing his separation with Jennifer, the Friends star didn't address the divorce until September 2005. She told Vanity Fair at the time, "Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I’m also doing really well. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. She’d say, ‘Even if it’s 98 percent the other person’s fault, it’s 2 percent yours, and that’s what we’re going to focus on.’ You can only clean up your side of the street.” And when the interviewer told Jennifer about the 60-page photo-spread Brad had just posed for with Jolie in W Magazine (entitled "Domestic Bliss"), she replied: "Is it odd timing? Yeah. But it’s not my life. He makes his choices. He can do—whatever. We’re divorced, and you can see why. I can also imagine Brad having absolutely no clue why people would be appalled by it,” she adds. “Brad is not mean-spirited; he would never intentionally try to rub something in my face. In hindsight, I can see him going, ‘Oh—I can see that that was inconsiderate.’ But I know Brad. Brad would say, ‘That’s art! There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing." October 2, 2005: Officially Divorced Brad and Jennifer's divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005 September 15, 2011: Brad Comments on the Past In 2011, Brad made some shady remarks to Parade about his former marriage to Jennifer, telling the publication, "I spent the ‘90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to actress Jennifer Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.” He later, however, issued an apology for his comments in the interview, saying, “It grieves me that this was interpreted this way. Jen is an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious woman who remains my friend. It is an important relationship I value greatly. The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself—and that, I am responsible for.” August 10, 2012: Jennifer Is Engaged Getty Images On August 10, 2012, Jennifer's boyfriend of one year, actor Justin Theroux, pops the question with a $500,000 engagement ring. August 23, 2014: Brad Weds Angelina Jolie After raising six children together, Brad and Jolie finally tied the knot on August 23, 2014. The couple gathered with 22 family members, including their children, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox, at their French chateau for an intimate wedding ceremony. August 5, 2015: Jennifer Weds Justin Theroux A second marriage for Jen, the actress wed fiancé Justin Theroux on August 5, 2015—nearly a year after Brad tied the knot with Jolie. September 20, 2016: Jolie Divorces Brad Two years into their marriage, Jolie filed for divorce from Brad, citing irreconcilable differences. February 11, 2017: The Infamous Text Newly-single Brad supposedly texted ex-wife Jennifer (who was still married to Theroux at the time) on her 48th birthday in 2017. In addition to sending her birthday wishes, the actor reportedly confided in Jen, with a source saying, "Brad told her he's having a hard time with his split and they exchanged a few texts reminiscing about the past," per Marie Claire. February 15, 2018: Jen Splits From Theroux On February 15, 2018, Jennifer announced her split from Theroux after nearly two-and-a-half years of marriage. February 11, 2019: A Birthday Invitation Brad scored an invitation to Jennifer's 50th birthday party in 2019, which was held at Los Angeles's Sunset Tower Hotel. Brad's attendance prompted a flurry a media speculation surrounding the couple. In June of that year, Brad responded to a paparazzi cameraman by saying, "Oh my god." Sources close to the couple continued to tell the public the two were just friends. December 14, 2019: First In, Last Out After attending her 50th birthday in February, Brad also landed a spot on the guest list to Jennifer's holiday party in 2019. A source told Entertainment Tonight, "[Brad] was among the first to arrive and the second to last guest to leave around 11 January 19, 2020: The Photo That Broke the Internet Getty Images Early in 2020, Brad referred to Jennifer as a "good friend" but then this happened: The couple reunited on the Screen Actors Guild red carpet and showed off flirtatious body language. After the photographs from the event surfaced (including the one above), fans everyone hope the pair would get back together. September 17, 2020: Flirty Characters Brad and Jen reunited again in September 2020 for a charity table read of the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Starring alongside other actors—Morgan Freeman, Matthew McConaughey, and Julia Roberts—Jennifer and Brad played characters, Linda and Brad, respectively. The couple exchanged flirty dialogue, with Jen as Linda saying, "Hi Brad, you know how cute I always thought you were? I think you're so sexy, will you come to me?" June 2021: Jen Sets the Record Straight Almost a year after their flirty table read, Jennifer set the record straight about where her relationship with Brad stands today. During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Stern asked Jen if the former couple’s virtual reunion was awkward for the actress. "No!" Jennifer told the host. "It was absolutely fun. You know, Brad and I are buddies. Like, we're friends and we speak." "There's no oddness at all," she went on, "except for everyone that probably watched it and was wanting there to be." And there you have it: despite their shared history, Brad and Jen are still “buddies” to this day. Jennifer Aniston once said that she met Angelina Jolie while her marriage to Brad Pitt was still going on. What she told her was quite painful, in light of the events that followed. Brad and Jenn seemed like the perfect Hollywood couple when they got married in 2000. At that time, Pitt’s career was on the rise, while Aniston was still Jennifer Aniston on Longstanding Angelina Jolie Feud Rumors: 'It's Just Tiresome and Old' "It's like an old leather shoe," she said of the rumors, while praising Jolie. "Let's buy a new pair of shiny shoes" Addressing rumors that have persisted for a full decade, the Cake actress says there is absolutely, positively no feud between her and Angelina Jolie – and people just need to move on, already. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. “It’s just tiresome and old,” Aniston told Entertainment Tonight on Friday, referring to rumors that she’s had a beef with Jolie ever since she separated from then-husband Brad Pitt and he began a relationship with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar in 2005. “It’s like an old leather shoe. Let’s buy a new pair of shiny shoes.” The pair sat near one another at the Critics’ Choice show – where they were both nominated – and although they did not appear to interact, both looked happy and relaxed throughout the evening. Aniston told ET on Friday that she has nothing but good feelings for the Unbroken director, despite those long-nagging rumors. “I think that’s slowly coming to an end. I really do,” Aniston said. “I mean, that movie is so beautiful and wonderful and she did such a gorgeous job. I think that it’s time people stop with that petty BS and just start celebrating great work and stop with the petty kind of silliness.” But sadly, in 2005, the couple announced their split after a firestorm of media stories suggesting that Pitt had cheated on Aniston with his "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" co-star, Angelina Jolie. The Jennifer Aniston resolutely refused to throw stones at her love rival until Angelina Jolie said something that really hurtVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableBrad Pitt praises Jen Aniston in old footageWhen Jennifer Aniston's marriage to Brad Pitt crumbled in 2005 amid his infatuation with Angelina Jolie, the Friends star maintained a dignified silence. But her graciousness could only go so far, and her desire to take the upper hand was tested when Angelina made a series of eye-opening revelations about her budding romance with Brad. Jennifer had initially believed her husband when he ended their marriage and insisted it had nothing to do with anyone else, least of all Angelina, who he'd just finished filming Mr and Mrs Smith with. Brad Pitt ended his marriage to Jennifer Aniston to get with Angelina Jolie ( Image: Getty Images) But Angelina hinted otherwise, gushing in 2007 about how they'd fallen head-over-heels for each other on set. “Brad was a huge surprise to me... I think a few months in I realised, God, I can’t wait to get to work," she said. Describing Jennifer as his "best friend", Angelina, 43, outright declared that she and Brad had fallen head-over-heels in love on set. Jen's patience was tested when Angelina dropped a series of bombs about her relationship with Brad "Whether it was shooting a scene or arguing about a scene or gun practice or dance class or doing stunts - anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it," she said. "We just became kind of a pair. And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realise that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe. And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.” Around the same time, Angelina offered Jennifer a "sit-down talk", and her comments proved to be a turning point for the star. In a 2008 interview, Jen asked the reporter to turn off their tape recorder so she could finally share her real thoughts. Jennifer initially believed Brad when he insisted their split had nothing to do with a third party She also joked about a cartoon in The New York Times which showed Jen loading a shotgun as she talks on the phone to Angelina while a bubble over her head reads, "Hi Angelina... I decided to take you up on your offer of a 'sit-down talk'." "[It was] the funniest thing I've ever seen," she told Vogue, revealing it prompted her to read Angelina's interview. And she did not like what she read. "There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening," Jennifer continued. "I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. "That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool." Both Brad and Angelina - who tied the knot six years ago today before divorcing in 2012 - have always denied embarking on a romance before his separation. Jennifer Aniston was left upset after she discovered that her ex-husband Brad Pitt is planning to have a baby with his new girlfriend Ines De Ramon. The Friends alum went through heartbreak when Bennifer. Britney. Brangelina. The celebrity gossip of the 2000s is well-documented, but what was it that kept us reaching for copies of Us Weekly and People? On Just Like Us: The Tabloids That Changed America, Clare Malone dives into the era’s celebrity obsession—from the magazine newsrooms, to the paparazzi boom, to the rise of reality television—to tell the stories behind the gossip, and what the tabloid sensation says about American culture. In Episode 3, we’re looking back at the tabloids’ influence over the Jennifer Aniston–Brad Pitt–Angelina Jolie love triangle narrative. Us Weekly readers were young, relatively affluent women with a median household income of over $72,000 in 2005—that’s over $100,000 in today’s money. They were sophisticated media consumers. They wanted quality and good dish. In 2003, Janice Min took over for Bonnie Fuller as Us Weekly’s editor-in-chief. At 33, she was her target demographic: She had two degrees from Columbia University and she had her first child while working at the magazine. Her former colleagues and numerous profiles describe her as a very chic New York lady. Think pin-perfect Prada. During her tenure, Us Weekly’s circulation rose by 350,000 a week, and she was reportedly paid close to $2 million a year. That would put her on par with the reported salaries of big Condé Nast editors like Graydon Carter and Anna Wintour. That’s a lot of money. But remember: Print was king in the mid-2000s. The cash flowing into and out of magazines, particularly one like Us, was pretty wild by today’s standards. And that enabled the kind of reporting that I’m about to describe to you, which in turn enabled the juiciest celebrity coverage around. Which made a certain kind of worldly young woman want to shell out for her weekly celebrity gossip—because it was perfectly calibrated to feel both escapist and entirely relevant to her life. Let’s turn things back to the Brad-Jen-Angie love triangle. Sure, it was definitely about cheating. But the whole thing had such a life—I mean, years of coverage centered on these three—because it turned into a story about motherhood. Who deserves to be a mom. Who’s screwing up their life by missing out. Hollywood and the media might get a lot of flack for being liberal shills, but let me tell you, the values of the tabloids are pretty damn traditional. At least on the gender norms stuff. One of the more unexpected entrants into the celebrity mom canon was Angelina Jolie. In 2002, Jolie adopted her son Maddox from Cambodia. It was quite a turn in life narrative, especially since the year before, she’d been talking vials of blood and her sex life. Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton divorced pretty soon after she adopted Maddox. In 2003, she said that she hadn’t had sex in a year—she was a full-time single mom in a new phase of life, though still an oversharer. Hollywood and America were perplexed by Jolie the mother, all the more so when she ended up in the midst of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s breakup. It was like our brains couldn’t handle the idea that someone could do something immoral but also have the desire to be a loving mother. The three-dimensional-ness of it was overwhelming. Tabloids deal best in a one-dimensional woman. Jen was the good girl, the one who deserved to have Brad’s babies. Angelina Jolie was settling down and getting everything that Jennifer Aniston, the good girl, deserved. It was, we should say, kind of an anti-feminist nightmare on the motherhood front, no matter how you felt about the whole cheating thing. The whole motherhood discourse—which is incredibly powerful, particularly for working women in their 20s and 30s, Us Weekly’s readership—was so compelling. And also, I would say, not very good for women. For one thing, it narrowed the scope of who “deserves” to be a mom—specifically, not a non-cuddly lady like Angelina Jolie. There was a loaded quality to our fascination with her adoptions. Why was she adopting all the brown kids? As a statement of cool? Misplaced adventurism masquerading as motherhood? And of course, forever tying Jolie’s fertility to Jennifer Aniston’s put Jennifer Aniston in an unwinnable position: She was doomed to a decade of headlines about how she couldn’t get a man to give her kids. Later, of course, Jen’s baby narrative would curdle a bit, and she’d be accused of not wanting kids, thus conveniently placing the blame for the breakup on her head, not lovable old Brad’s. And she was treated to years of cringe-y interviews trying to shoehorn in the question of motherhood. Here’s Diane Sawyer trying to force a connection between Aniston’s 2005 sexy thriller, Derailed, and the prospect of having babies: The Aniston-Jolie mommy wars of tabloid creation were also, to be fair, complicated by the fact that Jolie and Pitt kind of played up their family image from the get-go. Though they were a controversial couple, they didn’t really hide from the press. Or I should say, they ended up using the press in a strategic way. Probably to counteract this kind of coverage. Here’s our girl Diane Sawyer again, talking with Brad Pitt in 2005: This interview took place in the weird period before Pitt and Jolie officially came out as a couple, but after they had been very famously photographed on a remote beach in Kenya with Maddox. Those first exclusive pictures appeared in the May 9, 2005, issue of Us Weekly. OK, so … these photos were almost definitely set up—that’s what a couple of people in the paparazzi world told me. It’s basically impossible to confirm at this point—I couldn’t track down the photographer who took the actual photos—but Diani Beach in Kenya, where the photos were taken, is very out of the way and located on a private beach resort. It’s not the kind of place that professional paparazzi just hang out at, hoping a good celeb will wander in. Someone almost certainly tipped the photographer. Those photos were taken in the spring of 2005. That summer—though they had yet to confirm they were together—Jolie and Pitt did a photo shoot for W magazine that was basically a caricature of domestic bliss. She dressed as the sexed-up suburban housewife, he as the hunky hubz, with a gaggle of kids in tow. It was … in slightly bad taste. Jennifer Aniston certainly thought so. That was what she meant by her quote to Vanity Fair about Brad missing a sensitivity chip. But it was only the beginning of a years-long tabloid obsession with the Jolie-Pitt children.
One moment it’s 2005, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are “Caught Together! On Vacation” (per Star magazine’s explosive cover line), with the actress cradling her infant son Maddox on a Kenyan beach. Next thing you know, it’s 2021, and Maddox is a grown adult, attending college, studying biochemistry, and executive producing a filmAngelina Jolie was so jealous of Jennifer Aniston: So will Brad Pitt go back to his ex? Jolie says he's 'boring and toxic'. Brad says she needs to see a shrink. Now, as the world's most famous couple divide up six children and nine houses, the REAL question is: Will he go back to his ex?Gone 10pm in the award-winning Alto restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, and the world's most famous showbusiness couple have already been there for four hours. They've sunk five bottles of wine (two red, two white and an Italian dessert wine) and eaten a four-course dinner, while the friends they were discussing charity work with have long gone. Now, as fellow diners including actor Alec Baldwin look on, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are struggling to keep their emotions in check. He looks close to tears as he tells the mother of their children that she needs to get psychiatric help or he will leave her. Stressed: Brad and Angelina leaving the Alto in New York She hisses back to Brad that she's bored with him, she considers him 'toxic' and wants him out of her life. It is said to be this dinner, earlier this month, that finally sealed the fate of the Brangelina story which has fascinated the world ever since Brad left Jennifer Aniston six years ago to be with Angelina, his co-star in Mr And Mrs Smith, the film he was working on. When the pair left the restaurant an hour later, Angelina looked grim and determined. Brad wore an expression of deep concern as they stepped into their large people-carrier. Were their strained looks an indication of what was going through their minds? For it was reported yesterday that a few days later the pair walked into a Beverly Hills lawyer's office to finalise the terms of their split. Although they never married, they have six children, a £205 million fortune, and several homes between them. Compared to their years of rows with differing opinions on everything from how to bring up their children to art and world poverty, their meeting at the lawyer appears to have gone smoothly. They will have joint custody of the children, who will live with Angelina. Ex-wife: Jennifer Aniston is a sore point in the Brangelina relationship They will split their fortune evenly and have agreed how they will share their extensive property portfolio. The couple own five houses on the Loz Feliz estate in Los Angeles and the 35-bedroom, £20million palace Chateau Miravel in the South of France. They also own an island in Dubai in the shape of Ethiopia, a wildlife reserve and several villages in Cambodia, as well as a £ million house in the French Quarter of New Orleans. And they recently leased a £30 million home in Long Island, where Angelina filmed Salt. Brad also has a £9 million house in Malibu where he lived with Jennifer Aniston. He put it on the market a year ago, but has decided to keep it. The actor was noticeably absent at the Screen Actors' Guild awards on Saturday night, despite his film Inglourious Basterds winning a prize for outstanding cast of a motion picture. But perhaps the most telling sign of things to come took place the night before when Brad, 46, attended the internationally publicised celebrity telethon to raise funds for Haiti - with his former wife Aniston. Angelina, 34, is notoriously prickly about Jennifer, and Brad has only ever been seen publicly at the same event as his ex-wife on one previous occasion - last year's Oscars - and then he had Angelina at his side. Although, until now, Angelina has always seemed to have had the upper hand in the famous love triangle which has so fascinated the public, she has never got over the fact that Brad's family, and the public at large, has always preferred Jennifer to her. Her jealousy about Jennifer, 40, has always been hard for Brad to fathom - particularly as Angelina is still close to both her ex-husbands. As for Jennifer, she has struggled to find lasting romance since her marriage broke up, and has often admitted she still loves Brad. Only a year ago she spoke of her hurt when Angelina confirmed what had long been suspected - that the pair's affair started before Jennifer had split from Brad. A few weeks before their Alto dinner, Brad and Angelina had a furious row over her jealousy - and according to one magazine Angelina physically attacked him when he admitted he had been in contact with his ex-wife. He has furiously denied allegations that he has actually spent time with Jennifer, but numerous sources say she has, very ironically, been a shoulder for him to cry on as his relationship with Angelina has crumbled. But Brad being seen with Jennifer is far from the only clue to an imminent split. You have only to look at Brad and Angelina to see how this is affecting them both. Once half of the sexiest couple in Hollywood, Brad, who used to be so fastidious about his appearance, now looks little better than a tramp, with his ridiculous greying beard and growing paunch. He has also made no secret that he has been taking consolation in drink - frequently boasting to journalists on a recent junket about how he was still drunk from the night before. The brood: Brad and Angelina with their many childrenAngelina, meanwhile, is frighteningly skinny. Her weight is said to have fallen to less than 71/2st. Although sources close to the family deny the separation is happening, there is every indication that, in reality, the pair have been living separate lives for a long time. Brad recently bought a house in the same development of their Los Angeles base so they do not have to sleep under the same roof on the rare occasions when they are both in town. When they stay in hotels - and much of their lives is spent in them, as they both continue to work on movie sets - they sleep in separate bedrooms, with her in the main suite and him in a bedroom next to their children. Hotel worker Anna Kowalski, who liaised with the couple at their recent stays at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, said: 'I didn't see any kind of connection between Pitt and Jolie. 'I've seen no family dinners, no movie nights, no dinners for the two of them alone. At night Angelina drinks white or red wine in the suite; Brad is always in the lounge drinking beer. He just sits by himself texting on his phone for hours.' She added that, when they did go out, it was usually a stage-managed event to counteract rumours of problems in their relationship. 'It's always a big production,' she said. 'It's all orchestrated down to which door they will take.' Sources say there is little doubt about what Angelina is going to do now. First, she will move the family to Chateau Miravel, the couple's lavish home in Provence, which she will use as a base while she films her next movie, The Tourist, in Prague and Venice. Because of strict privacy laws in France, she will be able to mourn her relationship in peace, but no one will be surprised if some shots of her looking tragic somehow make it into the free of Brad, she also plans to fulfil her dream of adopting yet another child; it is her determination to continue to adopt children that has been one of the couple's biggest sources of had already adopted one child, Maddox, who is now seven and from Cambodia, when she and Brad first got together. In the five years since, they have acquired five more children. Three are natural born; three-year-old Shiloh and one-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. And there are two more adopted children; Zahara, four, and five-year-old Pax. The pair are permanently exhausted from looking after their brood and Brad describes their home life as 'chaos'. But almost as soon as she had given birth to her twins, Angelina started to talk about adopting another child. Happier times: Brad and Angelina at last year's Cannes Film Festival Angelina has always been happy to parade her humanitarian credentials, and it was when she was filming Tomb Raider in 2001 in Cambodia that she first became aware of humanitarian crises overseas. She started to visit refugee camps all over the world and later that year became a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She is said to feel immensely guilty about having her own children when there are so many unwanted orphans in the world. She feels the couple's genetic children have each other, while Maddox and Pax, who are both boys from the Far East, are best friends. But Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia, needs a sibling who looks like her. Angelina started her hunt for another child from Africa seven months ago. She has been looking in Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa for an easy way to adopt. Brad doesn't agree with the plans. He never felt any guilt about the couple's genetic children - he just adores them. He also felt the whole family needed some time without the upheaval of introducing yet another sibling and, as the relationship crumbled, he became even more concerned about bringing a vulnerable new child into it. Alone: Brad backstage at the Hope for Haiti Now telethon on Friday night He was also worried that Angelina's almost desperate need to keep adopting, keep working, and keep doing her charity work was to cover up the depression she has been unable to shake off since the death of her actress mother Marcheline Bertrand from ovarian cancer three years ago. There are rumours that Angelina even attempted suicide at the end of last year and it seems clear that the actress is working so hard at keeping herself busy that something is eventually going to give. She has suffered from depression in the past: as a teenager she grappled with an eating disorder and self-mutilation. And in 2000, shortly after winning an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted, she checked herself into a mental home, insisting to horrified staff - and wholly without foundation - that she had murdered someone and also that she had tried to hire a hitman to kill her. Knowing her history, Brad is said to have begged Angelina to seek psychiatric help this time around - but she has refused. Worries about the impact of her constant jetting off to the world's trouble spots with a child or two have also led to constant rows. Unlike Angelina, whose father is the actor Jon Voight, Brad had a traditional middle-class Southern Baptist family. He always hoped for a family; but he never expected it to be like this. Even though they have a constant rota of six nannies, having six children is exhausting. Anxious to ensure the children do not get too attached to their nannies, the women are changed every few months. The children fight for their parents' attention. The pair take turns at living without them. Angelina rents a suite at the Raffles L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills to escape. Brad enjoys weeklong jaunts with friends to Europe, where he drinks and buys art. When they spend so much time apart, in different parts of the world, it's no wonder that there have been numerous allegations of infidelity. Earlier this month it was claimed that Angelina had been sleeping with a vocal coach on her latest movie, Salt. And last month Angelina added fuel to the fire of allegations when she told a German magazine: 'Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other. 'I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards.' Another huge source of contention is Angelina's brother James Haven. He first became a subject of public fascination when his sister picked up her first and only Oscar, saying she was 'so in love with my brother right now' before giving him a long kiss on the lips. A friend says: 'Angie adores him so much that Shiloh was named after him - it was his family nickname.' All Brad and Angelina's rows have served to show the pair just how ill-matched they are. While the couple may initially have been bewitched by an extraordinary sexual magnetism which saw them spending whole days in bed together, those differences have since come to the fore. Both are tired of the rows and the unhappiness. One question arises from the collapse of the Pitt-Jolie household. Does it mean Brad doing a lot more charity work with a certain Jennifer Aniston - as he was on Friday night? .
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