Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie's Former Bodyguard Shares Exes’ 'Biggest Concern' When It Comes To Kids

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Published on Sunday, 15 November 2020 12:58

Written by IB Times

           Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are just like all the other parents out there — they are afraid of losing their kids.SAS Australia directing staff Mark "Billy" Billingham recently shared his experience when he was still working for Pitt and Jolie. The 55-year-old worked with the Hollywood couple and their kids for 18 months and he revealed their biggest concern when it comes to their six children."The biggest concern for them was the kidnapping of the kids, it's all about money," he told Woman's Day."Angie and Brad are very worried about who goes near the children." During the interview, he also shared how it was working with high-profile celebrities like Pitt and Jolie. "Working with such high-profile celebrities was great," Billingham said."I learned a lot of lessons from them, they learned a lot from me and the beauty of working together was the mutual respect. They respected what I had to do and I respected what they had to do, and it worked fine and created a very professional understanding." He also shared the thing that really surprised him about A-list celebrities, including Pitt and Jolie. Billingham was impressed with their time management because they had time to do everything, from their family, to their work and charity engagements.Jolie and Pitt separated in 2016, and their custody battle is still ongoing. In October, a hearing was set, but it was delayed. Pitt is asking for 50/50 custody, a source told Entertainment Tonight."Angelina wants to be fair when it comes to custody. She is very structured with the children. Brad has high hopes [they can] try to make it work because of the importance of co-parenting," the insider said.He also shared the thing that really surprised him about A-list celebrities, including Pitt and Jolie. Billingham was impressed with their time management because they had time to do everything, from their family, to their work and charity engagements.Jolie and Pitt separated in 2016, and their custody battle is still ongoing. In October, a hearing was set, but it was delayed. Pitt is asking for 50/50 custody, a source told Entertainment Tonight."Angelina wants to be fair when it comes to custody. She is very structured with the children. Brad has high hopes [they can] try to make it work because of the importance of co-parenting," the insider said.

 source : IB Times

Angelina Jolie's four-year divorce battle with Brad hits new speed bump as actress parts ways with another high-priced attorney and refuses to agree to Pitt's request for 50/50 custody of their kid

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Published on Thursday, 29 October 2020 07:20

Written by Daily mail

            Angelina Jolie's bitter divorce battle with Brad Pitt has hit yet another bump in the road after the actress parted ways with one of her high-priced attorneys.Priya Sopori, a Los Angeles-based former federal prosecutor who has been working with Jolie's lead lawyer, Samantha DeJean, is out after filing a 'Notice of Withdrawal of Attorney of Record' with LA Superior Court, DailyMail.com has learned.Experienced trial bulldog Sopori is a partner with California law firm Greenberg Glusker LLP.It's not clear whether Jolie - who is fighting Pitt's efforts to win 50/50 custody of their children - fired Sopori or if the attorney made the decision to quit.But the change in her high profile team at this late stage signals Jolie's resolve to get what she wants has only hardened.A source close to Jolie told DailyMail.com: 'Angelina has fought tooth and nail to get what she wants in this divorce, when it comes to her kids she won't back down.''She's paying her legal team a fortune, so if she believes one of her lawyers needs to go she won't hesitate to pull the trigger.' It's not the first time the mercurial 45-year-old Girl, Interrupted star has parted company with a lawyer she's hired during the long-running four year divorce saga.In 2018, superstar LA divorce attorney Laura Wasser - whose client list reads like a Who's Who of Hollywood - stopped working for Jolie when the actress's legal fight with Pitt, 56, reportedly became too 'venomous and nasty.'Wasser - who has represented Johnny Depp, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Ashton Kutcher and many other stars - has earned a reputation as a lawyer who tries to take the sting out of break-ups by promoting compromise between warring couples and shared custody of children.So it was thought at the time that Jolie's hard-nosed attitude toward Pitt was not a good fit with Wasser's more gentle, conciliatory approach.After Wasser, Jolie hired San Francisco-based DeJean who is now the only lawyer representing her in the long-running custody dispute with Pitt.The former couple are dragging security experts from two continents, an entourage of personal assistants and bodyguards, a former Jolie co-star and an army of child psychologists and doctors to give evidence in an upcoming custody trial that's expected to be held in private.Lists of witnesses filed in a Los Angeles court and seen by DailyMail.com reveal 21 people who will be testifying in the movie stars' legal fight over their children, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12. They have a sixth child, Maddox, but he's a 19 year-old adult.One witness will be domestic violence expert Alyce LaViolette, who controversially clashed with a prosecutor in a 2013 murder trial by describing killer Jodi Arias as the victim of abuse. The kids are shuttled back and forth in blacked-out SUVs and limousines between their parent's LA homes, which are around a mile from one another in the affluent suburb also inhabited by A-listers including Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, Jon Hamm and Zac Efron.In early April, the superstars came to an agreement that will see the children attend a more traditional schooling program in LA, marking an end to their homeschooling regime.Jolie said she stands by her choice to leave Pitt.'It was the right decision,' the actress told Vogue in June.'I continue to focus on their (the kids') healing. Some have taken advantage of my silence, and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds.'The custody trial was due to start earlier this month but it has been delayed after Jolie asked for the private judge to be replaced, claiming that he 'failed to disclose' that he was working other cases with one of Pitt's lawyers.

 source : Daily mail

Angelina Jolie ‘Insisted’ That Brad Pitt Quarantine for 2 Weeks Before Seeing Kids After His Trip to France

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Published on Saturday, 03 October 2020 13:51

Written by US magazine

                 Better safe than sorry! Angelina Jolie worried about her ex-husband Brad Pitt reuniting with their children after he traveled to France with his new girlfriend, Nicole Poturalski, amid the coronavirus pandemic.“Angelina insisted Brad quarantine for 14 days after he returned from France, citing a rise in COVID-19 cases in the country,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “She didn’t want to chance the kids getting it.” The Ad Astra actor, 56, wanted to take two tests “days apart” in hopes of “shortening the quarantine period,” but the Maleficent actress, 45, “wasn’t having it,” according to the source.Ultimately, Pitt agreed to quarantine and has since “resumed seeing the kids,” the source tells Us.The 12 Years a Slave coproducer and Poturalski, 27, touched down at Paris–Le Bourget Airport on August 26, the same day that news broke of their romance. They later made their way to Château Miraval, the estate in the South of France that Pitt and Jolie bought in 2008 and where they married in 2014.“Taking Nicole to Miraval on their former wedding anniversary, Brad knows exactly what he is doing and the reaction it’s going to get from Angelina,” an insider exclusively told Us at the time. “He just doesn’t care if Angelina is going to lash out. He expects she will.” While Pitt’s romance with the German model did not make headlines until this summer, they were first spotted together in November 2019 at a Kanye West concert in Los Angeles. A source exclusively told Us earlier this month that the relationship is “currently a go-with-the-flow situation, and Nicole’s not running around yelling about her love for Brad from the rooftops.” However, the budding couple, who have a 29-year age difference, are “totally falling for each other,” the source added.The Fight Club star was previously married to Jennifer Aniston from 2000 to 2005 and Jolie from 2014 to 2019. The Mr. & Mrs. Smith costars are still fighting over custody of their five youngest children: Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12. At 18, their eldest, Maddox, who is a student at Yonsei University in South Korea, is legally considered an adult.

 source : US Magazine

Angelina Jolie LOSES battle to remove judge in her bitter four-year-long divorce from Brad Pitt... after asking for a 'fair trial' with 'no special favors'

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Published on Thursday, 08 October 2020 04:37

Written by Daily mail

           Angelina Jolie has lost her battle to remove Judge John W. Ouderkirk from her bitter divorce proceedings with ex-husband Brad Pitt. Jolie had previously claimed that Ouderkik - who married the couple at their lavish French wedding in 2014 - failed to disclose 'ongoing business and professional relationships' that he had with Pitt's legal team, and therefore didn't think it was 'fair' to have him on the case. However, court documents reveal that the case is still "assigned to Honorable Judge W. Ouderkirk (Ret.) for all purposes" per a Friday report by UsWeekly.  A source also told the publication that Ouderkirk will still be presiding over the case between Pitt, 56, and Jolie, 45. In August, Jolie was accused of deliberately trying to delay their bitter four-year long divorce battle by Pitt's legal team, after she filed a request to remove Ouderkirk. But Jolie hit back via her own legal representative, who said her client just wanted a 'fair trial' with 'no special favors' for either herself or Pitt. 'All my client is asking for is a fair trial based on facts, with no special favors extended to either side,' Jolie's lawyer, Samantha Bley DeJean, told UsWeekly in a statement. The statement added: 'The only way litigants can trust the process is for everyone involved to ensure that there’s transparency and impartiality.'The report also added a comment from Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, who believes that Judge Ouderkirk is 'biased in Brad's favor' due to the personal connections they have. An insider recently told UsWeekly of the divorce battle: 'They're at a total impasse. And there's no end in sight.' As previously reported in court documents, Jolie claimed that Ouderkik - who married the couple at their lavish French wedding in 2014 - failed to disclose 'ongoing business and professional relationships' that he had with Pitt's legal team.However, Pitt responded in papers filed on August 13, calling Jolie's filing a 'Hail Mary' - an American Football reference to deliberately delay a game.In them, Pitt's legal team accuses the actress of making a 'transparently tactical gambit' to delay matters, adding that it will be their own children who are 'hurt most' by the hold up. The papers describe Jolie's request as 'a thinly-veiled attempt by Jolie to delay the adjudication of long-pending custody issues in this case.'  
           The former power couple - who first split in 2016, effectively ending a 12-year relationship and two years of marriage - share six children, Maddox, 19, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12. Jolie alleged in her filing that Ouderkirk 'failed to make timely mandatory disclosures of ongoing business and professional relationships between himself' and Pitt's legal team. She added in her request that she was 'never afforded the opportunity to even raise a concern or to object to the ever-increasing business relationships between Judge Ouderkirk and [Pitt's] counsel — relationships that were providing a steady stream of income to Judge Ouderkirk and the potential for future work.'Adding: 'These are precisely the type of repeat customer circumstances that create doubts about a privately-compensated private judge’s ability to remain impartial.' Yet, Pitt's team has responded saying Jolie had been made fully aware that Ouderkirk had accepted 'additional new engagements' involving the actor's team, and that she had 'never objected' to Ouderkirk's 'continued involvement' in the proceedings until now.In Pitt's response, he also pointed out three times where Jolie and her lawyers are said to have asked to extend Ouderkirk's appointment to their ongoing divorce case.The documents add that Pitt is concerned about how the continued delays will affect their children, saying: 'Unfortunately, the individuals hurt most by Jolie's transparently tactical gambit are the parties' own children, who continue to be deprived of a final resolution to these custody issues.' Jolie's lawyer DeJean responded to Pitt's filing last week in a statement to PEOPLE saying: 'It is unfortunate that Mr. Pitt's team has sought to intervene ahead of Judge Ouderkirk's response.''One can only conclude that this is an attempt to obstruct or influence Judge Ouderkirk's answer. Any delay in these proceedings is due to their zealous attempt to create an unrecognized special exception for their client's benefit.'  The report adds that a source close to Pitt's team claim that it was Jolie's team who actually knew the judge first, and that 'the only excuse for their filing is that her team knew they were likely to lose and they needed to stall by changing the referee in the fourth quarter.' 'This is the Judge who married them, someone who her team knew well and who her team actually introduced to the couple,' a Pitt source claims.

 source : Daily mail