Famed Hollywood actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt agreed on a divorce settlement after being embroiled in a long legal battle.
"Brangelina" were among Hollywood's most popular couples for 12 yearsImage: Michael Germana/STAR MAX/IPx/picture alliance
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Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement after eight years, marking an apparent end to one of Hollywood's longest and most contentious divorces.
Jolie's attorney, James Simon, confirmed the settlement on Monday to People Magazine.
"This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago," Simon said. "Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over."
There was no immediate comment from Pitt or his attorney.
Long-drawn-out tussle
Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, — nicknamed Brangelina for years — were among Hollywood's most popular couples for 12 years.
Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016, which began the long and closely followed legal saga.
The couple reached a custody arrangement for their six children in 2018, which appears to have since fallen into disarray.
A year later, a judge declared them divorced. However, a separate settlement was required over the splitting of assets and child custody.
In a separate lawsuit filed by Pitt, the actor had alleged that Jolie backed out of a deal that she would sell him her half of a French winery that they co-owned. The couple had their wedding in the same vineyard.
It's not clear how the divorce settlement could affect that lawsuit.
The rise and fall of Brangelina
After over ten years as one of Hollywood's most powerful couples, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have split. DW takes a look at their relationship from its steamy on-set beginnings to its surprising, sudden end.
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Romance on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
In 2004, Pitt and Jolie fell in love on the set of action comedy "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." The film made the relationship between the two actors public but stirred controversy as Pitt was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston at the time.
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Brangelina's large family
The couple has a total of six children. Jolie adopted her Cambodian-born son Maddox and Ethiopian-born daughter Zahara prior to her relationship with Pitt. In 2006, Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh in Namibia. One year later, the couple adopted a Vietnamese-born son named Pax. In 2008, Jolie gave birth to twins Vivienne and Knox in the French city of Nice.
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Chateau de Jolie-Pitt
Pitt and Jolie relocate to the Chateau Miraval, a vineyard estate in southern France in 2008. The couple would later hold their wedding ceremony at the home.
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Marriage delay
Pitt said he and Jolie would not get married until "everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," in an interview with Esquire in 2006. He repeated this statement in 2009 and 2011. Marriage equality was finally achieved in the US in 2015, one year after the couple's marriage.
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Charitable couple
Pitt and Jolie started a foundation to focus on supporting aid organizations and has donated millions of dollars to charities such as Doctors Without Borders. In 2012, Jolie was named a special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Brave announcement
In 2013, Jolie announced that she underwent a voluntary double mastectomy as a precautionary measure against breast cancer. She urged other women to take preventative measures. "I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive," she wrote at the time.
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French chateau wedding
Pitt and Jolie finally married in 2014 in a nondenominational ceremony in southern France. The couple's children helped to design the patterns on Jolie's wedding dress. The children also participated in the ceremony as ring bearers, flower girls, and escorts down the aisle.
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Foreboding final film
The couple co-stared in the 2015 movie "By the Sea," a drama about the disintegration of a marriage. Jolie wrote and directed the film which received less a less than stellar response from critics. She filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016.
