Jolie and Pitt signed a pre-arranged declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, saying they entered into a written agreement on their marital and property rights. The settlement was first reported by People magazine.
Jolie’s attorney James Simon confirmed to CBS News that the couple had reached an agreement.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt,” Simon said in a statement. Since then, she has focused on finding peace and healing for her family. This is just one part of a long ongoing process that began eight years ago. “To be honest, Angelina is exhausted, but she’s relieved that it’s partially over.”
A representative for Pitt, Benjamin Solly, declined to comment to CBS News.
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The filing states that he waives the right to future spousal support, but does not provide any other details. A judge will need to sign off on the agreement.
Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, were among Hollywood’s most prominent couples for 12 years, two of them as a married couple. The Oscar winners have six children together.
Julie Filed for divorce in 2016.During which after a private jet flight from Europe She said Pitt was abusive to her and their children.. The FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services investigated Pitt’s actions on the flight and deemed no action necessary.
In 2019, a judge declared them divorced and single, but the division of assets and custody of the children needed to be settled separately.
Soon after, a private judge the two hired to handle the case reached a verdict that included equal custody of their children, but Jolie removed him from the case due to an unreported conflict of interest. Filed for removal. An appeals court agreed, the judge was removed, and the couple had to start the process all over again.
During the long divorce battle, four of the couple’s six children became adults, negating the need for a custody agreement. The only two who are still minors are 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivian. In June, one of his daughters, then known as Shiloh Novel Julie Pitt, successfully petitioned to have Pitt’s name removed from her name.
Their other children are Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, and Zahra, 19.
No details of the agreement were immediately available, and the couple’s use of a private judge — an increasingly common move among celebrity splits in recent years — has kept the proceedings largely under wraps. There has been no formal court action in the case for nearly a year, and there is no indication that the two were close to a deal.
However, some details on their conflict have been revealed by a. A separate lawsuit filed by Pitt In which he alleged that Jolie reneged on an agreement to sell him half of a French winery they owned together. Jolie instead sold her share of the winery, Chateau Miravel, to the Stoli Group subsidiary, Tenote del Mondo Wine Group, in what Pitt said was a “rogue” move that left a private space. destroyed which was the second house.
Jolie’s lawyers said the deal to sell the winery fell through after Pitt demanded that she sign an extensive non-disclosure agreement about him as part of the deal. In court documents, he described it as an attempt to cover up the physical abuse he suffered, which he said was directed at children on a 2016 flight.
Along with federal and L.A. County officials, the initial trial judge heard testimony on the allegations before deciding to award Pitt equal custody of the children.
It’s unclear how the divorce agreement will affect the winery lawsuit.
Publicly, both Pitt and Jolie have been tight-lipped about everything surrounding their split, despite strong promotional tours for various projects and numerous media appearances.
Pitt said in a 2017 interview with GQ that he had a drinking problem at the time of the plane crash and split, but had since sobered up and was going to treatment. He has not defended his behavior on the family flight.
Jolie has also refused to make any public statements about family issues or the divorce, although she has asked the courts for greater scrutiny and publicity of her behavior in both the divorce and the winery cases.
After starring as hitman and hitwoman spouses on “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Jolie and Pitt were both high-profile movie stars when they started dating in 2004 and had their entire lives together. Wood topped the A list. Jolie, the daughter of Hollywood star Jon Voight and star of “Maleficent” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” won an Oscar for her performance in “Girl, Interrupted” in 1999.
Pitt, star of “Fight Club” and “Inglourious Basterds,” continued to thrive as both an actor and producer after the split. He won his Academy Award for 2019’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” a milestone in an awards season that was framed by some in the media as redemption and public love for him. expressed.
Jolie has kept a low profile in the years since the divorce, although she has directed several films and appeared in several more as she tries to focus on raising the children.
She is very much back in the Oscar conversation this year for her portrayal of legendary soprano Maria Callas in “Maria.”