Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement after 8 years
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- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement after eight years.
- Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, two years after the pair got married.
- Her representative said in a statement to BI that she was exhausted but relieved it was over.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement.
"More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family," Jolie's lawyer, James Simon, told Business Insider on Tuesday.
"This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago," Simon said, adding that Jolie was "exhausted" but "relieved this one part is over."
Jolie and Pitt signed off on the settlement on Monday, Simon told People.
Representatives for Pitt did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI. People reported that the actor's representative declined to comment.
Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, became an item after working together on the 2005 film "Mr and Mrs Smith." At the time, Jolie was in the process of divorcing actor and director Billy Bob Thornton, while Pitt was married to "Friends" actress Jennifer Aniston.
Pitt and Aniston were idealized as Hollywood's perfect couple, which made rumors that Pitt and Jolie were having an affair all the more shocking.
A month after Aniston filed for divorce in March 2005, Pitt and Jolie were photographed on vacation in Kenya.
In the years that followed, the couple built a family: Jolie adopted her son Maddox in 2002 and her daughter Zahara in 2005 while she was with Pitt. In 2006, their first biological child, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, was born, and they adopted Pax a year later. In 2008, Jolie gave birth to twins: Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.
The couple got engaged in 2012 and secretly married in France in 2014.
They were photographed together for the final time in July 2016, and Jolie filed for divorce later that year, citing irreconcilable differences and requesting primary custody of their six children.
That September, Pitt was accused of physically abusing one of his children. After an investigation, the FBI agency said no charges had been filed and it would not pursue the case further.
What followed was what is widely regarded as a messy split, with the couple disagreeing over child support, custody, and how to divide their respective stakes in a winery that they bought in 2008, and where they married in 2014.
In 2022, in an FBI report obtained by Rolling Stone and Puck, Jolie alleged Pitt assaulted her on the 2016 flight, was intoxicated, and caused $25,000 worth of damage to their private jet.
At the time, spokespeople for Jolie, Pitt, and the FBI did not respond to BI's requests for comment.
A divorce lawyer for Pitt told the New York Times at the time that while he accepted responsibility for some things in his past, he would not accept responsibility for what he did not do.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.