Hoping for a Happy Halloween! Angelina Jolie spends $1k on dead birds, bloody machete and straightjacket to amuse kids one year after Brad Pitt split
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- Published on Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:31
- Written by Daily mail
Single mom Angelina Jolie sure likes to make Halloween fun for her six kids.The 42-year-old Oscar winner was seen picking up fun supplies for her little ones as she strolled a store in Glendale, California over the weekend. The First They Killed My Father director spent $1,000 on supplies like a dead bird, a straightjacket and a bleeding machete, according to TMZ.The also snapped up a Ninja weapon set, big baby costume prop, rainbow tutu, and pumpkin teeth, it was claimed.The stunner can be seen in a long light beige sweater coat over a dark beige dress as she strolls the aisles with Zahara and another child, which looks like Vivienne.The Maleficent star is also seen carrying a large beige purse and she has her brown locks in a high ponytail as she wore sunglasses.The site also reported that she was seen last week at Hollywood Toys And Costumes buying Halloween items as well.It's been one year since she split from Brad Pitt. Reps for both parties maintain they are not getting back together and are still working through the terms of their divorce. These photos have surfaced on the same day Jolie was featured on the cover of the 150th anniversary issue of Harper's Bazaar.She did not just pose for idyllic snaps at a nature reserve in Namibia's Namib desert but she also penned a powerful essay. With the piece she touched on several subjects including what the country means to her, the impact of humans on the environment, the link between that environment and women's rights, and ultimately what her life experiences have taught her. In the powerful essay she opened up about what the desert means to her as she wrote: 'For me, Namibia represents not only ties of family and friendship but also the effort to the balance between humans and the environment so crucial to our future' In it she also explains that the reserve where the photoshoot took place - which is ran by the N/a’an ku sê Foundation - works with Namibia's San people.She even quotes the members of the Khoisan-speaking indigenous hunter-gatherer people while reflecting on her life as a whole.Angelina wrote: 'If my life experience has taught me anything, it is that what you stand for, and what you choose to stand against, is what defines you.'As the San people say, "You are never lost if you can see your path to the horizon."'As she is very passionate about the environment, the A-list star wrote about our individual and collective impacts on it as she explains that we could all be making much more conscious decisions when it comes to clothing and consumption choices.Angelina said: 'Fashion was once a major factor in encouraging the demands for clothes, jewelry or objects made from wildlife parts. But magazines can now send a different message: that wild animals belong in the wild, and ivory is not beautiful unless on the tusk of a living animal.'Each of us has the power to make an impact through our everyday choices. For instance, we can commit to never buying illegal wildlife products such as ivory and rhino horn. We can end the demand for wild animals as pets.' As women's rights are currently a hot-button issue, the star suggests that the environment actually goes hand-in-hand with the treatment of females.She said: 'Women make up most of the world’s poor...when the environment is damaged—for example when fishing stocks are destroyed, wildlife is killed by poachers, or tropical forests are bulldozed—it deepens their poverty. Women’s education and health are the first things to suffer.'Meanwhile Jolie is one of the many accusers of Harvey Weinstein, the powerful movie executive accused of sexual harassment, assault and rape. She told the New York Times in an email: 'I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did. This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.'
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Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow say they both endured harassment by Harvey Weinstein
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 October 2017 06:28
- Written by Metro
Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow have both alleged that they suffered sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein in the 1990s.Paltrow starred in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love which was a Miramax Films production, produced by Weinstein. She claimed that after being asked to attend a meeting in his hotel room he suggested they enter the bedroom for a massage.‘I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,’ Paltrow told the New York Times.She rejected the offer and reportedly told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt who at a party approached Weinstein ands told him to never touch Paltrow again.Representatives for Pitt confirmed the story.'I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth,’ added Angelina Jolie in an email to the publication, which broke the story of decades of harassment by Weinstein.‘And as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did. This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable,’ she added.In the past week dozens of other women have spoken out and alleged assault and harassment by Weinstein.Asia Argento, an Italian film actress and director, claimed that Weinstein ‘forcibly performed oral sex on her’ but that she refused to speak out because ‘he has crushed a lot of people’.‘That’s why this story—in my case, it’s twenty years old, some of them are older—has never come out,’ she added.‘The thing with being a victim is I felt responsible,’ she said. ‘Because if I were a strong woman, I would have kicked him in the balls and run away. But I didn’t. And so I felt responsible.’ An audio recording made by a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez features Weinstein pleading with her to enter a bathroom and watch him have a shower.As she continues to say no he gets angrier, and when she asks why he groped her breasts the day before he apologises and admits it is simply behavior he is ‘used to’.That recording was made with the NYPD as part of a sting after Gutierrez went to the police about Weinstein’s behaviour.The District Attorney later decided to drop the case.
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Angelina Jolie poses in Africa for Harper’s Bazaar
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:28
- Written by Page Six
For Harper’s Bazaar’s November issue — a 150th anniversary collector’s edition — Angelina Jolie has penned a letter from Namibia.We hear she’s also featured in a shoot at a wildlife sanctuary owned by her friends, in which the star poses with three orphaned rescue cheetahs sponsored since they were cubs by Jolie and her family foundation.Jolie writes: “Namibia represents not only ties of family and friendship but also the effort to the balance between humans and the environment so crucial to our future.”Jolie’s children were all there during the shoot, including Namibian-born Shiloh, who, with Jolie, opened the Shiloh Wildlife Sanctuary for wounded and orphaned elephants and rhinos.While Jolie posed for pics, her kids were “sandboarding nearby.”
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Saks Unveils The Angelina Jolie $5 Million Star Sapphire
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- Published on Monday, 09 October 2017 06:28
- Written by Forbes
Gem expert, private jeweler and jewelry designer, Robert Procop, will debut a giant black sapphire that he says is the world’s largest star sapphire certified by the Gemological Institute of America. The 888.88-carat stone will appear at Saks Fifth Avenue at South Coast Plaza until the end of October.The gem is named the “Star of Jolie,” after Angelina Jolie, the internationally known actress, filmmaker and humanitarian. It is the featured pendant on a necklace comprised of 70 black star sapphires, totaling an additional 104.42 carats. The entire piece is set in 18k rose gold and has a retail price of $5 million.The pear-shaped, double-cabochon star sapphire has not been treated by heat or other methods, according to the GIA report. Its transparency is semi-translucent to opaque. There is no indication on the report about it being the largest star sapphire graded by the organization. Its geographic origins are unknown.In addition to her film work, Jolie and Procop have been long-time collaborators in a collection of jewels called “The Style of Jolie” in which proceeds are used to promote education and establish schools in conflict-affected countries through the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which builds schools for children around the world. The first of the schools opened for girls in April 2013 in Afghanistan outside Kabul. It educates from 200 to 300 girls.In addition to the unveiling of the Star of Jolie, Procop will also debut new pieces from his collection with Jolie, as well as pieces from his Exceptional Jewels collection. A portion of the sales from this event will be donated to charity.After Southern California, the piece will travel to Saks Fifth Avenue stores in both Bal Harbour, Fla., and Palm Desert, Calif., in November. The tour will conclude at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., in December.The world’s largest known star sapphire is the “Star of Adam,” an oval-shaped blue star sapphire, currently the largest star sapphire in the world. It weighs 1,404.49 carats and its estimated cost is at least $100 million. It was discovered in Ratnapura in southern Sri Lanka, in August 2015.
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Angelina Jolie reportedly involved in plot to bust warlord Joseph Kony
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- Published on Sunday, 08 October 2017 14:15
- Written by Page Six
The former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court had a thing for celebrities — once asking activist actress Angelina Jolie to play the role of a “honey trap’’ in a real-life attempt to arrest a notorious African warlord, a published report said Saturday.The Sunday Times of London said loopy lawman Luis Moreno Ocampo also tried to recruit film stars George Clooney and Sean Penn in his international crusades.The startling information was leaked by the court to the French Web Site Mediapart and made available to the British newspaper.Moreno Ocampo approached Jolie about five years ago — and even tried to cast her husband, Brad Pitt, as a co-star — in a stranger-than-fiction plot to take Ugandan Joseph Kony into custody in the Central African Republic, where he was based.“Forget other celebrities, she is the one,” Moreno Ocampo wrote in an e-mail. “She loves to arrest Kony. She is ready. Probably Brad will go also.”Moreno Ocampo wanted to embed Jolie, and hopefully Pitt, with US Special Forces close to Kony’s stronghold, according to the report.Jolie wrote Moreno Ocampo at one point. “Brad is being supportive. Let’s discuss logistics. Much love Xxx.”Moreno Ocampo claimed Jolie had suggested she could lure Kony to dinner as a ruse to arrest him, the report said.American troops, he told her, “are eager to get Kony . . . [and] after meeting you, they will do it.”Moreno Ocampo had his own fixation on Jolie. The prosecutor, who won only one case in his nine-years on the court, was ultimately even less successful with Jolie.At one point he sent her an e-mail: “Dear Angie, I hope you are well. I miss you.” It went unanswered.When he heard she was ill, he sent an e-mail to her assistant confessing: “I realize how much I love her.” The assistant replied Jolie had changed her e-mail address.Moreno Ocampo made still less headway with Clooney and Penn.He asked Clooney for help flying spy satellites over Libya “to put pressure on Khadafy’s generals.’’ Moreno Ocampo also invited Penn to a New York hotel, and tried to involve the star in a potential investigation into the Palestinian conflict. The ever-flip Penn responded, “While you make the decision on Palestine, I’m embroiled in a decision weather [sic] or not to get a steam in the hotel spa.’’
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