LOS ANGELES – Angelina Jolie dan Brad Pitt mencapai penyelesaian perceraian, menamatkan salah satu perceraian paling lama dan paling dipertikaikan dalam sejarah Hollywood tetapi bukan setiap isu undang-undang antara keduanya.
Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Los Angeles Scott J. Nord meluluskan perjanjian itu pada Selasa, sehari selepas Jolie dan Pitt menandatanganinya.
“Lebih lapan tahun lalu, Angelina memfailkan perceraian daripada Pitt,” kata peguam Jolie, James Simon, dalam satu kenyataan.
“Dia dan anak-anak meninggalkan semua harta yang mereka kongsi dengan Pitt, dan sejak itu dia memberi tumpuan untuk mencari ketenangan dan penyembuhan untuk keluarga mereka. Ini hanyalah sebahagian daripada proses berterusan yang panjang yang bermula lapan tahun lalu. Terus terang, Angelina keletihan, tetapi dia lega bahagian ini telah tamat.”
Pemfailan itu mengatakan mereka melepaskan hak untuk sebarang sokongan kewangan pasangan masa depan, tetapi tidak memberikan butiran lain. E-mel kepada peguam Pitt yang meminta komen tidak segera dijawab.
Jolie, 49, dan Pitt, 61, adalah antara pasangan paling terkenal di Hollywood selama 12 tahun, kedua-duanya sebagai pasangan suami isteri.
Pemenang Oscar itu mempunyai enam anak bersama.
Jolie memfailkan perceraian pada 2016, selepas penerbangan jet peribadi dari Eropah di mana dia berkata Pitt menderanya dan anak-anak mereka secara fizikal. FBI dan pegawai perkhidmatan kanak-kanak menyiasat tindakan Pitt dalam penerbangan itu. Dua bulan kemudian FBI mengeluarkan kenyataan mengatakan ia tidak akan menyiasat lebih lanjut, dan peguam AS tidak membawa pertuduhan.
Laporan FBI yang telah banyak disunting yang diperoleh oleh The Associated Press (AP) pada 2022 mengatakan bahawa seorang ejen memberikan kenyataan sebab berkemungkinan kepada pendakwa raya mengenai Pitt, tetapi selepas membincangkan merit, “ia telah dipersetujui oleh semua pihak bahawa pertuduhan jenayah tidak akan diteruskan.”
Dokumen itu berkata Jolie “berkonflik secara peribadi” tentang menyokong pertuduhan, dan dalam pemfailan mahkamah kemudiannya dia berkata dia memilih untuk tidak mendesaknya demi kepentingan keluarga.
Sumber yang biasa dengan siasatan perkhidmatan kanak-kanak memberitahu AP pada 2016 bahawa siasatan perkhidmatan kanak-kanak telah ditutup tanpa dapatan penderaan.
Seorang hakim pada 2019 mengisytiharkan Jolie dan Pitt bercerai dan bujang, tetapi pembahagian aset dan hak penjagaan anak perlu diselesaikan secara berasingan.
Kedua-duanya telah bebas untuk berkahwin lagi sejak pengisytiharan itu, tetapi kedua-duanya tidak. Perkahwinan itu adalah yang ketiga untuk Jolie, yang sebelum ini berkahwin dengan Jonny Lee Miller dan Billy Bob Thornton, dan yang kedua untuk Pitt, yang sebelum ini berkahwin dengan Jennifer Aniston.
Tidak lama selepas itu, seorang hakim persendirian yang kedua-duanya telah diupah untuk mengendalikan kes itu mencapai keputusan yang termasuk hak penjagaan anak-anak mereka yang sama, tetapi Jolie memfailkan supaya dia dikeluarkan daripada kes itu kerana konflik kepentingan yang tidak dilaporkan.
Mahkamah rayuan bersetuju, memecat hakim dan mengosongkan keputusannya. Pasangan itu terpaksa memulakan proses itu semula.
Semasa pertelingkahan perceraian yang panjang, empat anak mereka menjadi dewasa, menafikan keperluan untuk perjanjian hak penjagaan untuk mereka. Satu-satunya kanak-kanak bawah umur yang tinggal ialah kembar Knox dan Vivienne berusia 16 tahun.
Mahkamah akan mengekalkan bidang kuasa ke atas hak penjagaan kanak-kanak walaupun dengan perjanjian yang dimuktamadkan, seperti yang berlaku dalam semua kes California. Pada Jun, salah seorang anak perempuan mereka, yang kemudiannya dikenali sebagai Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, berjaya membuat petisyen untuk mengeluarkan nama Pitt daripada namanya.
Penggunaan hakim persendirian pasangan itu – langkah yang semakin biasa dalam kalangan selebriti yang berpecah dalam beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini – merahsiakan butiran perceraian itu. Tiada tindakan mahkamah rasmi dalam kes itu dalam hampir setahun, dan tiada petunjuk bahawa kedua-duanya hampir bersetuju.
Beberapa elemen pertikaian mereka, bagaimanapun, telah didedahkan melalui tuntutan mahkamah berasingan yang difailkan oleh Pitt atas penjualan Jolie ke atas separuh daripada kilang wain Perancis yang mereka miliki.
Pitt ingin membeli separuh daripada kilang wainnya, Chateau Miraval, dan dia berkata dia telah meninggalkan rundingan mereka dan menjual bahagiannya kepada kumpulan wain Tenute del Mondo. Pitt berkata ia adalah tindakan “pendendam” dan “melanggar undang-undang” yang tidak sepatutnya dibuat tanpa persetujuannya dan merosakkan ruang peribadi yang telah menjadi rumah kedua.
Jolie dan peguamnya berkata bahawa Pitt telah menuntut dia menandatangani perjanjian tidak mendedahkan secara meluas mengenainya sebagai sebahagian daripada perjanjian yang dicadangkan yang merupakan percubaan untuk menutup penderaan terhadapnya dan anak-anak.
Perjanjian perceraian itu tidak menjejaskan tuntutan mahkamah berkenaan kilang wain, di mana pertikaian undang-undang antara kedua-dua bintang itu boleh diteruskan.
Secara umum, kedua-dua Pitt dan Jolie telah sangat menutup mulut tentang segala-galanya yang mengelilingi perpecahan mereka, walaupun lawatan promosi yang mantap untuk pelbagai projek.
Pitt berkata dalam temu bual 2017 dengan GQ bahawa dia mempunyai masalah minum pada masa kejadian pesawat dan perpecahan, tetapi sejak itu menjadi sedar dan akan menjalani terapi. Dia tidak mempertahankan tingkah lakunya dalam penerbangan keluarga.
Kedua-duanya adalah antara bintang paling elit dalam filem apabila mereka mula berkencan pada 2004, selepas membintangi bersama sebagai pasangan hitman-and-hitwoman dalam “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” dan kekal di atas senarai A Hollywood sepanjang gandingan mereka.
Bintang “Maleficent” dan “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” Jolie memenangi Oscar untuk persembahannya dalam “Girl, Interrupted” 1999.
Pitt, bintang “Fight Club” dan “Inglourious Basterds,” berkembang maju sebagai pelakon dan penerbit selepas perpisahan. Dia memenangi Anugerah Akademinya sendiri untuk “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” 2019, pencapaian tertinggi dalam musim anugerah yang dirangka oleh beberapa media sebagai penebusan dan membawa kasih sayang orang ramai kepadanya.
Jolie mengekalkan profil yang kurang kelihatan pada tahun-tahun sejak perceraian, walaupun dia mengarahkan beberapa filem dan muncul dalam beberapa lagi sambil cuba memberi tumpuan kepada membesarkan anak-anak. Dia telah kembali ke perbualan Oscar tahun ini untuk penggambarannya tentang soprano legenda Maria Callas dalam “Maria.”
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement after 8 years
LOS ANGELES — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement, ending one of the longest and most contentious divorces in Hollywood history but not every legal issue between the two.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott J. Nord approved the agreement Tuesday, a day after Jolie and Pitt signed off on it.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt,” Jolie’s attorney, James Simon, said in a statement. “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. This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
The filing says they give up the right to any future spousal financial support, but gives no other details. An email to Pitt’s attorney seeking comment was not immediately answered.
Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, were among Hollywood’s most prominent pairings for 12 years, two of them as a married couple.
The Oscar winners have six children together.
Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, after a private jet flight from Europe during which she said Pitt physically abused her and their children. The FBI and child services officials investigated Pitt’s actions on the flight. Two months later the FBI released a statement saying it would not investigate further, and the US attorney did not bring charges.
A heavily redacted FBI report obtained by The Associated Press in 2022 said that an agent provided a probable cause statement to prosecutors on Pitt, but that after discussing the merits, “it was agreed by all parties that criminal charges would not be pursued.”
The document said Jolie was “personally conflicted” about supporting charges, and in a later court filing she said she opted not to push for them for the sake of the family.
A source familiar with the child services inquiry told the AP in 2016 that the child services investigation was closed without a finding of abuse.
A judge in 2019 declared Jolie and Pitt divorced and single, but the splitting of assets and child custody needed to be settled separately.
Both have been free to marry again since that declaration, but neither has. The marriage was the third for Jolie, who was previously married to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, and the second for Pitt, who was previously wed to Jennifer Aniston.
Soon after, a private judge that the two had hired to handle the case reached a decision that included equal custody of their children, but Jolie filed to have him removed from the case over an unreported conflict of interest.
An appeals court agreed, removing the judge and vacating his decision. The couple had to start the process over.
During the long divorce fight, four of their children became adults, negating the need for a custody agreement for them. The only minors that remain are 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
The court will maintain jurisdiction over the child custody even with the finalized agreement, as it does in all California cases. In June, one of their daughters, then known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, successfully petitioned to remove Pitt’s name from hers.
The couple’s use of private judges — an increasingly common move among splitting celebrities in recent years — kept the details of the divorce largely under wraps. There had been no official court actions in the case in nearly a year, and no indication that the two were near agreement.
Some elements of their disputes, however, have been revealed through a separate lawsuit filed by Pitt over Jolie’s sale of her half of a French winery they owned.
Pitt had wanted to buy her half of the winery, Chateau Miraval, and said she abandoned their negotiations and sold her part to the Tenute del Mondo wine group. Pitt said it was a “vindictive” and “unlawful” move that should not have been made without his consent and ruined a private space that had been a second home.
Jolie and her attorneys said that Pitt had demanded she sign a wide-ranging non-disclosure agreement about him as part of the proposed deal that was an attempt to cover up his abuse of her and the children.
The divorce agreement does not affect the winery lawsuit, where the legal battle between the two stars could continue.
Publicly, both Pitt and Jolie have been extremely tight-lipped on everything surrounding their split, despite robust promotional tours for various projects.
Pitt said in a 2017 interview with GQ that he had had a drinking problem at the time of the plane incident and the split, but had since become sober and was going to therapy. He has not defended his behavior on the family flight.
Both were among the most elite stars in film when they began dating in 2004, after co-starring as hitman-and-hitwoman spouses in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” and remained atop the Hollywood A-list throughout their coupling.
The star of “Maleficent” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” Jolie won an Oscar for her performance in 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted.”
Pitt, the star of “Fight Club” and “Inglourious Basterds,” thrived as both actor and producer after the split. He won his own Academy Award for 2019’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” the crowning achievement in an awards season that some in media framed as a redemption and brought major public affection for him.
Jolie kept a less visible profile in the years since the divorce, though she directed several films and appeared in several more while trying to focus on raising the children. She has very much returned to the Oscar conversation this year for her portrayal of the legendary soprano Maria Callas in “Maria.”
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