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To me in my opinion, Brad was too good for Angelina.

Wonder what she did to him? He now looks like the weight of the world has been lifted off his shoulders. Looks so much healthier and happier.

Brad, we're all with you! Hope to see you with your children very soon. Stay in the light !

Brad was simply too normal a human for a mental woman like Angelina Jolie.

Gorgeous.

OMG!!! This baby is back to HOT again!!!

He seems relieved that we don't believe her tale of how bad a father he is.

Brad all you have to do is believe in yourself and not let her intimate you- she is a "player" and will fake you out until she is down to the last card. I never was a fan until you were with her- she is a "real" women- so I have come to believe you are a real man. Fight for what you want- the kids, her...whatever- just go for it. Of course, you have to love and have confidence in your self- certainly the last 20 years of public adoration has afforded you that.

ah so handsomeee (Ireland)

Brad Pitt looks better than ever. Getting rid of Angelina will do that! (Netherlands)

Looking goooood, Brad!! (Canada)

It's like he instantly turned back into hot Brad the minute they split!
(United Kingdom)

Looking better than he has in years!

So true! Should have gotten out years ago!b (New Zealand)

I'm not big Brad Pitt fan but he's looking kind of yummy these days. Brad, stay strong, keep the faith, and always be there for your kids. Good luck and well wishes!

Best he's looked in a decade!

Keep your head up, Brad. We all know Angelina is trying to do everything she can to make you look like the bad guy. (France)

He just had a haircut and lost some weight. He is blessed with good looks. I think he will still be good looking in his 80s.

He is happy because he was able to get rid of Angelina for good.
(Los Angeles)

Well, it's obvious he feels better since he rid himself of her - he looks better!

He looks 10 years younger and much happier. That woman really did suck the life out of him.

Marion is gorgeous, classy and a great actress. I'm sure this film will be excellent.

I really feel sorry for him. Angelina, in only allowing sporadic visits, has hit him where it hurts. Despicable and it reflects badly on her because you can see he's a good man.

'He's such a good man', that will drive Angelina mad!

Saw a trailer for this film on Saturday and it looks excellent. Wish I could say the same about the film we went to see. If anyone is thinking of going to see Arrival I'd not recommend it. It's gloomy and totally incomprehensible.

She is stunning can't wait to see the film, Brad you are better without the wicked witch

He has such kind eyes, can tell he's a good man and father. It's his ex wife with the issues.

She has FAR more skeletons!! He is just respecting their kids by keeping quiet. Unlike Angelina, he KNOWS how devestated the kids would feel. He doesn't want to put them through any more pain.

I still can't believe Marion is the same age as Angelina! She looks a decade younger.

Brad looks hotter than ever without Angelina, Angelina is the problem.

He still got it.. Well done sweetheart, keep on moving: don't let that vicious woman get to you.

She seems like a nice lady. Love her sense of style, too. Brad is looking HOT!

He is a very handsome man..You will win Brad, you will win..

Interesting so Angelina Jolie made it his business. I guess she needs someone to say good things about her.

Such a classically beautiful French woman

Marion is the ultimate French lady.

Stunning woman ! Beautiful inside out which is rare especially in the showbiz world.

She's such a talented and a beautiful woman.

She's naturally very pretty.

lookin good, hope he gets custody of the kids after his nutcase ex tried to do him for child abuse #BradPitt

Absolutely LOVE how she's risen above Angelina's behaviour to her both on set and with the divorce. Pure class!

Brad and her look good together, this is the kind of woman he should have settled for.

Cathy add to bucket list - Must go to Brad movie premiere and get selfie.

Any premieres in NYC would love to go (allied)

Watch your back angelina is a crazy bitch

Looking forward to seeing this phenomenal movie!!!! (allied)

Awesome. (allied)

Wow, Brad looks amazing! 20 years younger and incredibly hot.

All eyes on him fortunately ; while the whole world slowly forgets about Angelina. You go Brad! (Hungary)

There's an REM song called Living Well is the Best Revenge. It's true.

She's going to be the bad guy in all of this. There's no amount of UN ambassador work that can help her.

Personally I think he's relieved at getting out of the marriage to Angelina.
(london)

Good for him for getting out there. He is looking better and more sexy since spliting from that controlling h o m e w r e c k e r. You don't see Angelina Jolie out there, probably because she will be crucified by th public if she does. (United Kingdom)

Of course bitter petty shrew AJ hates this woman - jealousy strikes at its rightful enemy - in this case a sweet, classy AND gorgeous woman like Marion.

And I agree the movie looks like it will be really good.

Best he's looked in a decade!

I'm not big Brad Pitt fan but he's looking kind of yummy these days. Brad, stay strong, keep the faith, and always be there for your kids. Good luck and well wishes!

Best he's looked in a decade!

Keep your head up, Brad. We all know Angelina is trying to do everything she can to make you look like the bad guy.

Brad Pitt will be fine. He will always be fine.

And there’s no better way to glamourise investors than to bring along one of your best friends who just happens to be one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

If this is true, Angelina is deep trouble-not least of all, mentally.

Sad for the kids. She has some serious mental health issues.

Not surprised. She's a vengeful hag. Horrible woman. Hope Brad gets the kids and more.

Brad Pitt will remain legend to us.

are you a member of Angelina Jolie team, spreading false rumors about Brad on the internet ? Loser

Wow! Looks younger

Yeah cause the wicked witch is banished out his life. You can tell when life agrees with a person it shows on our faces.

Angelina has proven time n time again she's a home wrecker so why does her lying surprise you? Wake up

I liked them as a family. I can see Angie being the pushover mom, which is going to be hard if Brad isn't in the picture to rein in the kids, especially teen age boys. Boys do need someone in their life to lead them in the right direction and say no at times. I can see her getting pissed at Brad for telling Max no, or to respect his mother and it going out of hand.

I raised two boys, Milo. It's not as easy as you've said. Boys need a firm male hand and if either of the older boys answered Pitt with the F word, that constitutes immediate discipline. Laid back mothers tend to be lazy parents. It is hard work raising kids. The hardest you will ever do. But it's also rewarding. I firmly believe Jolie will have to pay the piper down the road over Shiloh, much less pitting the boys against their dad.

She has starved herself for so long that she has destroyed her looks. She appears to be around 60 years old.

She's looking old, ugly and used up.  And she's a mentally ill liar.  She "collected" all of these children knowing she was going to leave him.  Probably already letting some other man stick it to her

If she is making it all up she should be prosecuted. To destroy a man is sick for no reason

Brad looks great.

He looks good.

he is really a good man, folks.

Most states have joint custody unless a parent is completely unfit. Jolie is wasting her time with this. If you want a divorce, fine, but just split the assets and share the children equally. She's unhinged, for sure.

Love you Brad! You're fans believe in you!

Angelina is lying

Joliar. She needs help ...

She should be held accountable for false accusations. She is so crazy.

Newsflash, a father IS allowed to discipline his son.

Pitt’s pal claimed that his wife of two years and mother of their children is waging a nasty campaign against him for personal reasons and not just because she is interested in the safety of the kids.
“Angelina is putting out [the abuse] story to take the kids away from him,” the source told Page Six. “[Her] team’s campaign to smear him is so aggressive.”

it's pretty obvious she was lying

Don't apologize to that witch! I really disliked her to begin with, but this just adds to it all. If you want a divorce, just go for it. Irreconsirable differences. Isn't that what everyone uses? No need to cause such drama with lies trying to ruin Brad. What is with these women lately?! Amber, now Angie. You'd think at least Angie would do it more professional being a bigger actress than Amber, and just move on with her life.

I hope the nannies testify in court and Brad is granted full custody. You know the nannies have some stories on her!

I read she had already arranged alternative rented housing before this happened?? She was obviously waiting for anything that she could use as a pretext, because she was jealous of Marion Cotillard?? She seems a deeply troubled and narcissistic individual??

now brad sees what a real nutcase she is!

She really is a nasty person. (Australia)

Jolie is unravelling. I was always a fan of hers but she is coming across as seriously unstable. I can't see how any judge in their right mind would grant her full custody

I honestly don't know how so many people were duped into being fans of hers - never liked her never bought her many charades.

Brads lucky he got out now before she got any uglier

Oooo Angelina, you really made a right mess this time! Just look at u-gl-y Maddox in the last picture glaring at Brad! How ungrateful to look at his adopted father like that? The little punk needs a good talking too. One comment said on another article Angelina sleeps with him naked? I sure hope not, Brad should cut him loose as he is only interested in 'mommy'!

I grew up in a beautiful middle class home and had a great education. On the surface, all looked perfect. Just beneath the surface was the obsessive control, negative invective, pathological lying and infinite emotional abuses of a Narcissistic mother. At least now, I have a type of 'radar' and Angelina is definitely one of those monsters

I did too, except now she's been exposed as ill by all. The MIL however is still a task and only no contact has got me some recovery and peace. Beat wishes my friend on healing yourself from it, it's not your fault.

That is some low down sh !t Angelina... is Maddox being used as a pawn?

For the sake of the children they should keep their business private, they could have had everything sorted out and agreed before even starting divorce proceedings. One partner suddenly announcing out of the blue that they're going to divorce the other is just wrong when there's children involved, it's neither clever nor kind. Divorce if you must, but do it in a way that let's the children know they still have two parents who love them, also don't try to demonise the other parent as that must be devastating to the children.

So Jolie is manipulating the press.....no change there then

If a judge gives Angie full custody, there is something drastically wrong with that judge and California laws regarding parental custody.
(canada)

She made false accusations, and tied up the time of FBI agents and DCFS social workers. The latter are some of the most over worked, underpaid people in the country. And she used up time that could have gone to protecting poor and abused children, who really need their help.This woman should not be teaching classes at a university or posing as a role model at the United Nations. She should be prosecuted.

I think Brad needs to get away and stay away from anything to do with Angie, kids excepted.

Brad Pitt could no longer sleep with Angelina who is known to kiss her own brother and sleeps nude with Madox. So she planned her revenge. Google what some seen in Cambodia press.

 Child protection got involved because Angelina made an accusation of child abuse when no abuse was made...maybe he should get full custody instead of joint custody..thats crazy..

Shes potraying herself the victim as usual. I bet Brad pitt now sees her true colours and regrets very much leaving Ms Aniston.....

Not surprised.....showing her true colors.......

Go Brad Pitt - behind you all the way.

She's a lieing syco path bitch is all!!!

 Ange a schzo

Wrong there Angelina is the one who crucified Brad and she the one lying into hoping she gets to move out of the united stated and she trying destroy the children relationship with their father Brad and it’s been stated Brad has done nothing wrong and he innocent in this media circus Angelina started

nasty, vindictive witch…. her kids needs to be removed from her care…. shes unstable….

Their children are probably a total wreck mentally and emotionally. Whatever happened between her and her husband, should be strictly between them two. The children should be left out of the messiness.
If she is using the kids to hurt him, it’s a terrible, heartless, evil thing to do.
Maybe they have different discipline skills. But, allowing kids to take on adult roles, and go unpunished, undisciplined will eventually hurt the children and cause the parents a hell of a lot if grief in the long run.

Angelina lies will catch up to her and it already starting

I admire Brad for staying publicly silent since the breakup. Men like him and Johnny Depp look better when they don't criticize the woman even if she is wrong.

I can see why Angelina's jealous, Marion is the opposite of her, full of class and rivals her beauty!

PLZ. We KNOW that nothing happened. All of this is just crazy Angelina and her crazy town ways lol.

Dreadfuful self serving woman, who appears to have no idea on how to control her children.

Maddox seems like a s p o i l e d b r a t. What trouble will he get into in the future?

Both of my parents lunged at me at various times throughout my childhood. Pretty sure there were no child protection agencies banging on our door.

I think she made it up to benefit her own career with the UN. Stuff she claimed he did doesn't make any sense, and to blame Marion Cotillard and even Selena Gomez is just madness!

It was an excuse for her to divorce Brad without looking like a bad person...... but it backfired on her.... just the opposite. She had already decided to divorce him...

 I wouldn't believe anything that b**** says

 She's been saying Brad is The Best Father her kids could have now she does a complete 180. It's really sad

Another controlling bitch..

Maddoxlookslike anastypiece ofwork and so ungrate ful

Angie's probably going to pull a Woody Allen with this kid. I wouldn't put it past her

I get the feeling Maddox knew Jolie was easily manipulated by a "helpless" teen. Poor Brad.

I have such a soft spot for Jolie but it is in a mad fantasy never go there kind of way. She is as mad as a March hare - but all of her self-cutting and brother sex and blood vial thing with Billy Bob intrigues men. Now she has no breasts and no nether regions and she wonders why Mr. Pitt needed a wee bit of attention. He just wanted her to give him more or as much as she did to her causes. Travelling the world collecting discarded kids whilst ignoring the supposed love of your life is not a good plan.

PLZ. We KNOW that nothing happened. All of this is just crazy Angelina and her crazy town ways lol.

Jolie exposes her ‘rebel-turned-saint’ myth by trashing Pitt

By Maureen Callahan September 25, 2016 | 6:47 am


Possibly the only thing more surprising than the news that Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt was the unceasing, unremitting details.

As a brand, Brangelina spent more than a decade on lockdown: Their camp had no leaks. Tabloids knew nothing the couple didn’t want known. Their image as the chic-est, jet-setting-est, most racially harmonious family on Earth was impenetrable.

Until Tuesday, when Jolie’s filing demanding sole physical custody sent the media into overdrive: What had Pitt, heretofore known as a devoted father, possibly done?

Incredibly, almost on the hour, the story kept advancing: TMZ reported that Jolie had concerns “with the way Brad was parenting” and that she was “fed up” with his heavy use of weed and alcohol. He had an “anger problem.”

Next came accusations of Pitt cheating — with a co-star and with Russian hookers, their nationality an odd detail — of using hard drugs, and of verbally and physically attacking one of their children on a private plane.

Within 72 hours, the world knew more about Brangelina than in the 12 years they had been together. It was sordid and dirty, the photo negative of the perfect ­image they had so smugly, aggressively promoted.

The likeliest source of that narrative flip? Angelina Jolie, who at 41 has masterfully manipulated the media for over two decades.

Strategically, Jolie seems miles ahead of Pitt, but she may lose the long game. Video reportedly exists of the plane incident, and no physical altercation is said to have occurred. People have come to ­admire her, but they love him.

“The whole thing seems very impetuous,” says Jolie’s biographer, Andrew Morton. “Her mother would freeze out people for whatever reason, and now Angie has frozen out Brad — who was far more dignified and just issued a quiet statement.”

By so publicly disparaging the father of her children — some old enough to read what’s being said online — Jolie is endangering her own self-created myth, that of ­depraved Hollywood hellion-turned-St. Angelina, humanitarian nonpareil.

“It’s Bad Dad vs. St. Ange,” Morton says. “The ultimate losers are the children.”

And Jolie’s halo, which may be revoked.

It’s easy to forget how deeply weird Angelina Jolie was when she came on the scene in the mid-’90s. There’s an entire generation that knows her as an actress, yes, but more so as the selfless philanthropist, the devoted mother of six, one-half of the most glamorous couple in Hollywood.

Jolie has never used a publicist, and this has only added to the sense — true or not — that she’s authentic. But she is, at heart, an actress. Jolie and her estranged father, actor Jon Voight, share one key trait: Both, she’s said, are “drama queens.”

As a pre-millennial starlet, Jolie was unlike any of her peers. She was in stark opposition to the arch, cosmopolitan WASP-iness of Gwyneth Paltrow, who was then engaged to Pitt. She made Winona Ryder’s eccentric darkness seem purely adolescent. Drew Barrymore, with her trauma, her drug use and mid-20s marriage spree, could not compare.

Jolie carved her own niche, controlled her own narrative, and it was impossible to look away. She was the wildest of the wild. She divulged thoughts and experiences so outlandish, you had to wonder how much was true.

She spoke of self-harm, rampant drug use — heroin, she said, her favorite — her bisexuality, how much she loved knife-play and S&M, her history of insomnia and eating disorders, of committing herself to the psych ward at UCLA for 72 hours, of suicidal ideations and of once hiring a hit man to kill her before changing her mind. All this by age 22.

In 1996, she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller. She said she wed in a white shirt with Miller’s name scrawled in blood on the back.

They divorced in 2000, the same year Jolie began cavorting with her brother, James Haven, on red carpets, making out in front of photographers. When she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar that year for “Girl, Interrupted,” she gushed over him in her acceptance speech.

“I’m so in love with my brother right now,” she said.

It was too weird, even by Hollywood standards. Haven quickly receded from Jolie’s public life, and within weeks, she wed her “Pushing Tin” co-star Billy Bob Thornton, who was then engaged to actress Laura Dern.

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Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton in 2000Photo: WireImage
“I left our home to work on a movie,” Dern told Talk magazine in 2000, “and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again.”

Jolie and Thornton — then 24 and 44, respectively — embraced their role as Hollywood’s premier freak-show couple. They wore ­vials of each other’s blood around their necks and boasted of wild sex on fur-lined harnesses.

The marriage lasted four years, until the moment Jolie said was life-changing: her decision, while filming “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” in Cambodia, to adopt a child.

“I knew once I committed to Maddox,” she said, “I would never be self-destructive again.”

Jolie divorced Thornton. “She used the same M.O. as with Brad — accused him of having affairs and being drunk,” says Morton, her biographer. “As soon as Maddox came along, Billy Bob had served his purpose.”

Thus Jolie began her pivot from savage, man-stealing sex bomb to valiant single mom of an indigent child. She began working with the United Nations as a goodwill ambassador. Her time in Cambodia, she said, “made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn.”

She was a spoiled Hollywood brat who orchestrated her public awakening to the less fortunate and duly expressed shame. As an actress, things were less exciting. She trudged along in a series of unremarkable movies: “Original Sin,” “Life or Something Like It,” “Beyond Borders,” “Alexander.”

It wasn’t until 2004, when she replaced Nicole Kidman in a film called “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” that Angelina Jolie’s star power ­became stratospheric.

This, of course, was the movie where Pitt and Jolie met and fell in love. At the time, Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston, and they were considered Hollywood’s golden couple: he the wholesome, Midwestern matinee idol, content with a bong and a beer, she the A-list star of “Friends,” the breezy, sort-of-plain popular girl who had landed the high school quarterback.

Jolie, with or without Pitt’s knowledge, helped extricate him from that marriage expertly. In April 2005, amid rumors of their affair, Pitt flew to visit Jolie and her toddler son in Kenya. Paparazzi somehow knew to be there, and a now-iconic image of Jolie, Pitt and Maddox made the cover of US Weekly.

Aniston had said goodbye to Pitt hours earlier, with no knowledge of his plans. “The world was shocked, and I was shocked,” Aniston told Vanity Fair that year.

Rumors were rampant that Jolie was pregnant with Pitt’s baby — compounding the tabloid narrative that Pitt badly wanted to be a dad but, denied by his career-obsessed wife, had no choice but to leave.

“My worst fear,” Aniston’s friend Kristin Hahn told Vanity Fair, “is that Jen will have to face them having a baby together soon, because that would be beyond painful.”

In July of that year, Jolie adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia, an event she announced in People magazine. She began heavily publicizing her work as a UN ambassador. To paraphrase the old saying about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire: Jolie gave Pitt gravitas, and Pitt gave her respectability.

In May 2007, the couple relocated to Namibia, where a heavily pregnant Jolie was again shot by paparazzi, with Pitt and her two children, on otherwise empty sand dunes — this, even though the couple had gotten the Namibian government to ban all journalists from entry so she could give birth there.

After their daughter Shiloh was born, Pitt and Jolie gave a press conference only to Namibian reporters. They sat on a dais with Namibia’s president, Sam Nujoma, formerly the country’s dictator, and began their spin off planet Earth.

In 2007, Jolie began forcing celebrity journalists to sign contracts before interviewing her. These forbade “any questions regarding her personal relationships,” even though her personal relationships were exactly what she was selling. In April of that year, People glowingly reported Jolie’s adoption of a 3-year-old boy from Vietnam.

His mother was still living, and Jolie changed his name from Pham Quang Sang to Pax. He spoke no English, but no matter — the magazine deified Jolie, shooting her in profile, holding her new toddler as they gazed off at the horizon. In less than two years, Jolie and Pitt had a family of four.

“I know we seem crazy, just bringing them in one after the other,” Jolie told the New York Times in 2008, the year she gave birth to twins Knox and Vivienne.

“But we do plan,” she said. “We make sure one is absorbed completely into the family before we add ­another.”

Sanding down their scandalous origin story further, Jolie founded the Maddox Jolie Pitt Foundation in 2006. Though the couple have always said they donate all the money they make from selling family photos to magazines, tax filings raise questions.

In 2008, the year they sold pictures of the twins to People for $14 million, the foundation gave away a little over $6 million. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees got $100,000; the Council on Foreign Relations — which extended membership to Jolie the year before — got $110,000, and Pitt’s own nonprofit, Make It Right, got $1 million.

The year before, the MJP Foundation listed itself as a “consultant” to Make It Right, earning $204,867 in fees. It also listed nearly $4 million in assets invested with, among others, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. They donated just $1.4 million, with $333,000 going to the UNHCR, which finally, after nearly $1 million in total donations from MJP, named Jolie a special envoy in 2012.

In 2014, People paid $2 million for the Jolie-Pitt wedding photos. But the magazine doesn’t appear on MJP Foundation filings. However, Asprey, the jewelry company that has commissioned designs from the couple, does.

Reps for Pitt and ­Jolie did not return requests for comment.

As adroit as she has been, Jolie has seemed to lose touch with how she’s actually perceived. Her pretension has become boundless: bragging to a UK radio program that her six kids speak seven languages, including sign language.

“Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic,” she said.

Vivienne is 8.

Jolie has been publicly on the verge of quitting acting since 2005, ready to sacrifice movie stardom for her kids — never a mention of the nannies — her charities, the world. In November, she begins a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics. She is reportedly seeking to move to England permanently to join the House of Lords, which requires UK citizenship, and remake herself yet again, this time as a politician.

“I’ve never loved being in front of the camera,” she said in 2014.

It’s a transition sparked, most likely, by her failed attempts to become a serious writer-director. Each successive film — 2011’s “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” 2014’s “Unbroken” and last year’s disasterpiece, “By the Sea,” in which she and Pitt played a couple on the verge of divorce — has bombed exponentially.

The Sony hack revealed true ­industry opinion of Jolie. “Minimally talented spoiled brat,” wrote super-producer Scott Rudin to then-Sony chief Amy Pascal. “She’s a camp event and a celebrity and that’s all.”

By seeking to elevate herself by denigrating Pitt, Jolie’s hypocrisy has begun to show. Whatever went down on that plane, it most likely can’t be worse than having her children witness their father’s public humiliation at their mother’s hands — the ultimate irony for a woman who prides herself on motherhood above all.

As she told the New York Times in 2008, she was already worried about what her children might read about their lives. “There’s a lot we’re going to have to explain to them,” she said, “about how public their family is.”

Additional reporting by Isabel Vincent

not mine.credit and source: NEW YORK POST