How Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Relationship Has Advanced

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie used to make headlines for being Hollywood’s high “it” couple. Lately, it’s a distinct story. 

In 2016, Jolie, 49, filed for divorce from Pitt, 60, citing irreconcilable variations. Their cut up kicked off a years-long authorized saga involving disagreements about properties, companies and custody of their six youngsters: sons Maddox and Pax Thien, daughters Zahara Marley and Shiloh Nouvel and twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline.

Earlier than their contentious separation, the pair famously met whereas taking part in the titular married duo in 2005’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith. On the time, Jolie was a single mom to Maddox, now 22, and Pitt was nonetheless married to Jennifer Aniston. A 12 months after Pitt’s cut up from Aniston, 55, in 2005, as media consideration grew across the couple dubbed “Brangelina,” Jolie confirmed to PEOPLE that they have been collectively and that she was pregnant with Shiloh, now 18. 

Within the following years, Pitt and Jolie garnered as a lot consideration for his or her rising household as they did for his or her hit Hollywood tasks (in addition they reunited onscreen in 2015’s romance drama By the Sea). Of totaling six children with the start of Knox and Vivienne in 2008, the Woman, Interrupted Oscar winner gave PEOPLE a glimpse of household life: “It’s chaos, however we’re managing it and having a beautiful time.”

The couple remained single till 2014, once they held a non-public marriage ceremony ceremony on the Château Miraval, France, which they collectively owned. “It was vital to us that the day was relaxed and filled with laughter,” the newly married couple instructed PEOPLE on the time. “It was such a special occasion to share with our kids and a really joyful time for our household.”

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Solely two years later, it turned obvious that Pitt and Jolie’s joyful dwelling life was at an finish.

On Sept. 14, 2016, Jolie and Pitt received into an alleged bodily altercation on a non-public airplane experience with their six children from France to their dwelling in Los Angeles. In closely redacted FBI paperwork launched six years later in 2022, Jolie claimed that Pitt’s actions made her really feel “like a hostage” on the airplane as he allegedly grabbed and shook her, pushed her right into a wall and punched the ceiling of the plane.

She additional alleged that he appeared “like he was going to assault” one in all her youngsters after they referred to as him a “prick” in the course of the alleged struggle. Jolie additionally admitted to wrapping her arms round Pitt’s neck in a chokehold model.

The incident resulted in Pitt being investigated by the L.A. County Division of Kids and Household Providers. They later concluded the investigation with no findings of abuse. 

The report resurfaced amid the previous couple’s authorized battle over the custody of their children. The As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood Oscar winner was briefly granted joint custody of their minor youngsters in 2021, till a choose was eliminated from the case over impartiality issues, reverting the settlement again to Jolie’s full custody. 

At the moment, custody solely applies to the exes’ 15-year-old twins. Pitt has “nearly no contact with the grownup children,” a supply instructed PEOPLE amid reviews that Zahara, Shiloh and Vivienne have every sought to change their final names from Pitt-Jolie to Jolie.

In the meantime, authorized groups proceed to commerce barbs about an ongoing disagreement over Château Miraval. After Jolie offered her half of its vineyard in 2021, Pitt sued her, arguing that her sale went towards a verbal settlement they’d. Jolie’s attorneys have claimed she refused to let Pitt purchase her out of the enterprise as a result of she did not wish to signal the deal’s non-disclosure settlement. They’ve requested that Pitt disclose third-party communications he had in regards to the alleged airplane incident of 2016.

“It isn’t executed but,” a supply not too long ago instructed PEOPLE of the previous Hollywood energy couple’s ongoing divorce. “Either side are nonetheless speaking.”