Personal life
In the late 1980s and the 1990s, Pitt was involved in a series of relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head of the Class),[145] Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),[145] and Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia), who at sixteen was ten years his junior when they started dating.[146] Pitt also had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Seven co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1995 to 1997.[145]
Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000.[1][147] For years their marriage was considered a rare Hollywood success;[1][148] however, in January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they decided to formally separate after seven years together.[147] Two months later, Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[149]
As Pitt's marriage to Aniston drew to a close, his involvement with actress Angelina Jolie during the filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith turned into a well-publicized Hollywood scandal.[150] While Pitt denied any claims of adultery, he admitted that he "fell in love" with Jolie on the set[151] and said that production was still going on for Mr. & Mrs. Smith after he and Aniston had separated.[152]
In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged; the photographs, which showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya, seemed to confirm the rumors of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie.[153] During the summer, the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina".[154] Pitt and Aniston's final divorce documents were granted by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005, and ended their marriage.[149] On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.[155] In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he and Jolie would marry "when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able".[82]
Despite media reports that Pitt and Aniston have an acrimonious relationship, in a February 2009 interview, Pitt said that he and Aniston "check in with each other", adding, "She was a big part of my life, and me hers."[156]
In an October 2007 interview, Pitt revealed that he is no longer a Christian nor believes in an afterlife. "There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible."[7] In July 2009, he said in an interview that he did not believe in God, and that he was "probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic."[157]
Children
In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia,[158] where she adopted her second child, a six-month-old girl named Zahara;[158] Jolie later stated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt the child together.[159] In December 2005, it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, Maddox and Zahara.[160] On January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request, and the children's legal surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".[161]Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newly born daughter would have a Namibian passport.[162] The couple sold the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide.[163] The profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Pitt and Jolie.[164] Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh, making Shiloh the first infant to have a statue at Madame Tussauds.[165]
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (originally Pax Thien Jolie). Since the orphanage did not allow unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent, and Pitt later adopted him as his son in the United States.[166]
Following months of media speculation, Jolie confirmed she was expecting twins at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.[167] On July 12, 2008, Jolie gave birth to the couple's twins, a boy named Knox Léon and a girl named Vivienne Marcheline at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France.[168][169] The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.[170][171] The money went to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.[170][172]
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