Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally reached a divorce settlement, eight years after legal filings confirmed their acrimonious split, a lawyer for Jolie confirmed Monday night.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,” James Simon of Hersh Mannis said in a statement.
“This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over,” he added.
Pitt’s legal team declined to comment.
Hollywood stars Pitt, 61, and Jolie, 49, became one of the most high-profile couples in the world when they got together after meeting on the set of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” in which they co-starred. When the couple married in 2014 they had already earned their own tabloid neologism: Brangelina.
They were granted a “bifurcated judgment” in 2019, which meant they were legally separated but still technically married.
Jolie’s initial filing in September 2016 cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason she was seeking divorce. They have six children, ranging in age from 16 to 23.
The former couple have since played out their very public split in the courts, with each attacking the other through lawyers.
In 2018 Jolie accused Pitt of not paying “meaningful child support” in the year-and-a-half period since their breakup.
Pitt alleged in a court filing the next day that Jolie was attempting to “manipulate media coverage” and pointed out that he had given her a $8 million loan and paid more than $1.3 million in bills. Jolie’s team said she would honor the loan but maintained that this did not constitute child support payments.
In 2022 Jolie accused her estranged husband of physical and verbal abuse on a 2016 transatlantic flight from France to Los Angeles, during which he allegedly choked one of their children. It was this alleged incident that prompted divorce proceedings, according to a court filing from Jolie.
A lawyer for Pitt said at the time: “Brad has owned everything he’s responsible for from day one — unlike the other side — but he’s not going to own anything he didn’t do.”
No criminal charges were ever filed against Pitt and in 2016 both the FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services closed an investigation into allegations of abuse on board the flight.
