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from Matteo Persivale

The legal battle has been going on for over five years. And it mainly concerns the custody of the couple’s six children

QFour years ago – the first and so far only time he talked about divorcing Angelina Jolie – Brad Pitt said his attorney had explained to him that ‘a divorce case doesn’t determine who wins, it determines who ultimately gets hurt the most. And today those words sound ominously like an omen.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie met on set trying to kill each other, and those who are superstitious now cannot be said to be particularly surprised: convicts were the filming of “Mr & Mrs Smith”, thriller in which they played a couple of hitmen who are assigned the task of killing themselves.

The Jolie-Pitt separation, were it not saddened by the involvement of five children, it would be an excellent judicial remake of the film that made them fall in love, in 2004: 10 years of union before marriage in 2014 (the third for her after those with Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller, the second for him who had already been married to Jennifer Aniston), two years of married life and then separation in September 2016.

Since then, a legal duel that reminds boxing fans of the historic first round between the late Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns in 1985, arguably the most violent 180 seconds in boxing history. Accusations (to him) of having beaten up his children after abusing alcohol (the FBI investigated and concluded that there was no mistreatment), accusations (to her) through tabloids of increasingly eccentric and obsessive attitudes, the (wise) joint decision to hire a mediator to remove the divorce process from (public) court records and to be slaughtered away from the courtroom.

Until the victory of Jolie who now manages to get the recusal of the private judge after that, the mustachioed and good-natured John Ouderkirk, had decided two months ago in the joint custody of the children (in California – where the courts are clogged – and especially when a civil case requires maximum confidentiality, the parties can hire a judge privately: they are always former magistrates who then have to submit the outcome of the closed-door trial to the court for final approval).

Jolie, who demands very severe restrictions on the time Pitt would spend with his children, had asked through her lawyers to an appeal court (in the first instance the court had said no) to object to the judge, and the day before yesterday it was: fired Ouderkirk (for an unspecified “ethical infringement”, previous undisclosed professional contacts with Pitt’s lawyers), we start all over again.

The Pitt-Jolies have six children, including five minors: 19-year-old Maddox, 17-year-old Pax, 16-year-old Zahara, 15-year-old Shiloh, 12-year-old Vivienne and 12-year-old Knox. The issues relating to divorce – now already technically recognized by the Los Angeles Court in a separate proceeding – are monetary, but above all concern the custody of the four minors.

Since their separation, less than five years ago, the careers of the two actors – among the highest paid in the history of cinema – have taken a very different direction. Jolie, who had won her Oscar on the ready-to-go, twenty-four, for “Girls interrupted”, almost at her debut, is now more focused on producing films and directing them, dedicating herself to necessarily niche projects more in tune with her strong commitment humanitarian (UNHCR ambassador). All she needs is dubbing of blockbuster cartoons (the series “Kung Fu Panda”) and rare appearances always blockbuster (the series of “Maleficent”, the upcoming “Eternals” of the Marvel superheroes to continue to collect monstrous checks).

Pitt is now primarily a film producer, often Oscar-winning (“12 Years a Slave”, “Minari” and “Moonlight”), and as an actor he appeared in friend Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and finally won the Oscar he had been chasing for nearly thirty years.

July 24, 2021 (change July 24, 2021 | 20:07)

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