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Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt attended the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards 2015 at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, in Nov. 2015. Jolie has filed for divorce from Pitt, bringing an end to one of the world’s most star-studded, tabloid-generating romances.

NEW YORK » Angelina Jolie Pitt has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, bringing an end to what began as the world’s most tabloid headline-generating romance before morphing into a star-studded engine of family and philanthropy.

Jolie Pitt, 41, cited “irreconcilable difference” in divorce papers filed Monday in Los Angeles. She is seeking physical custody of their six children, with visitation rights for Pitt.

An attorney for Jolie Pitt, Robert Offer, said today that her decision to divorce was made “for the health of the family.” The filing dated the couple’s separation to last Thursday.

“I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the wellbeing of our kids. I kindly ask the press to give them the space they deserve during this challenging time,” Pitt said in a statement to People.

Mark Vincent Kaplan, a veteran divorce attorney who was Kevin Federline’s attorney in his divorce from Britney Spears and has handled several high-profile cases, reviewed the filing at the AP’s request.

“There is no indication on the face of the petition filed by Ms. Jolie that there is a prenuptial agreement, or that if there is a prenup, she is asking the court to consider whether or not to invalidate it,” said Kaplan.

Though together for 12 years, Pitt and Jolie Pitt — known as “Brangelina” — only wed in August 2014. They married privately in the French hamlet of Correns in Provence with their children serving as ring bearers and throwing flower petals. They announced the ceremony days later.

Their children are: 15-year-old Maddox, 12-year-old Pax, 11-year-old Zahara, 10-year-old Shiloh, and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

This is the second marriage for Pitt, 52, who previously wed Jennifer Aniston. It’s the third for Jolie Pitt, who was previously married to Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.

Their initial romance sparked a tabloid avalanche unlikely any in recent memory. Pitt and Jolie became close while filming 2005’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” prompting widespread speculation — consistently denied by the couple — that Jolie prompted Pitt’s divorce from Aniston. Pitt and Aniston announced their separation in January 2005.

But after the media upheaval, Jolie Pitt and Pitt settled into their own unique kind of globe-trotting domesticity. They were seldom-seen Hollywood royalty, predicated more on parenting than partying.

The pair adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. They formed the Jolie-Pitt Foundation in 2016. Jolie Pitt, a special envoy for the United Nations, became an outspoken voice for refugees, as well as for breast cancer treatment after undergoing a double mastectomy herself. Pitt built homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Jolie Pitt also launched herself as a film director. Last year, the couple starred together in her “By the Sea,” playing a glamorous couple vacationing together in France while their marriage was on the rocks. It made a mere $538,000 at the box office.

In a 2014 interview with The Associated Press, Jolie Pitt said playing a couple with marital problems was cathartic.

“It almost makes you get past those issues because you can laugh at them,” Jolie Pitt said. “You do a film about bad marriage and you witness that behavior. You study it, you let it out, you attack each other and then you just want to hold each other and make sure you never behave that way.”

Jolie Pitt earlier this year finished shooting her fourth feature as director, “First They Killed My Father.” The film, about the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, was shot in Cambodia.

The pair was seen publicly together as recently as July, when they were spotted taking their twins to breakfast in Los Angeles.

Pitt stars with Marion Cotillard in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming spy thriller “Allied” and narrates Terrence Malick’s IMAX documentary “Voyage of Time.”

In recent years, Pitt’s production company, Plan B, has been behind a growing number of acclaimed releases, including the Academy Award best-picture winner “12 Years a Slave,” last year’s “The Big Short” and the recently debuted festival hit “Moonlight.”

16 responses to “Jolie files for divorce from Pitt ‘for health of the family’”

  1. cojef says:

    Celebrities and marriages are like love/hate relationships. First you think you got to sleep to together and later find out it was never meant to be.

  2. biggerdog says:

    I find it interesting that the SA considers this “top news”.

  3. google says:

    Hollywood husbands and wives. The Godless and the ungodly hollywood people.

  4. WizardOfMoa says:

    Sad. Hope that this marriage would have been a lifetime commitment because of their six children! Sometimes a brief break from each other can help restore a relationship. Maybe that’s what is needed at this moment in time.

  5. nalogirl says:

    Once a cheater, always a cheater, by both of them. I feel for the kids.

  6. WalkoffBalk says:

    What’s gonna to happen to the word “Bradgelina.”

  7. awahana says:

    What the lay public fails to comprehend, just like how Trump (NPD), and Hillary (APD), are suffering from mental illness, is that Jolie, is a textbook case of BPD.

    Only the healthcare community, that is akamai, can comprehend, and identify, without a doubt, what is going on.

    Lady Diana, Britney Spears, Marilyn Monroe and Amber Heard, ex of Johnny Depp, are recent examples.

    Odds are, you know someone in your life, friends or family, that have the same condition, but did not realize it, until you read this post. God bless you, and them.

    http://www.medhealthdaily.com/celebrities-with-borderline-personality-disorder/

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