Angelina Jolie, 49, looks fashionable as she arrives in NYC with daughter Vivienne, 15, ahead of the Tony Awards
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- Published on Sunday, 23 June 2024 15:36
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Angelina Jolie showcased her understated style as she arrived at JFK airport in New York Friday with her 15-year-old daughter Vivienne ahead of the Tony Awards. The actress, 49 — who has been battling in court with her ex and children's father Brad Pitt, 60, over their Chateau Miraval winery — looked fashionable in a black jacket over a white blouse with a matching long black skirt. The Eternals star wore black boots as she loaded her luggage into the trunk of a black chauffeured SUV.Angelina kept her accessories simple, donning dark sunglasses and a thin belt, along with some small gold earrings. The Oscar winner's long, dark hair was styled straight and she wore natural looking makeup with a soft peach lip.Vivienne, who is one of Angelina's six children with Brad Pitt, kept close to her A-list mom as they prepared to head from the airport to the hotel. The teen seemed to follow her mother's low key example, wearing a beige T-shirt with high waist white jeans and sneakers. The mother-daughter duo have a big weekend ahead of them as The Outsiders, the musical they produced based on the popular SE Hinton novel, are up for several awards at Sunday's Tonys. The musical focuses on a group of 1960s teens in Tulsa, OK who fight for survival and a sense of purpose. The show received 12 Tony nominations, including Best New Musical. Vivienne joined the production as a volunteer assistant and her mother later joined the project as a producer. 'There are those artists that think about themselves and there are those artist that are just rooting for everybody else, [Vivienne's] that one,' the proud mama told AP. 'She's the one that just roots for everybody and so it's nice.' And while speaking to Deadline earlier this month, Jolie recalled how both she and Vivienne became involved in the Broadway production. 'My daughter Viv loves theater.' 'She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to. She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about five times and was telling me about it, and I had read the book, and I'd seen the film years ago.' Angelina then saw the project with her daughter and noted that effect that it had on Vivienne, adding, '...I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her.' The mother daughter duo were soon contacted by producers and were asked to share their thoughts on the production. 'So Viv and I sat together and we wrote down what we liked, what we were curious about.' 'And they responded to our notes. For me, it was a moment to learn more about Viv, not me thinking of becoming a producer.' The actress added, 'I think at some point, it just felt the team seemed to feel that we were adding to it, so I really wanted to just be a support and listen and share my thoughts where useful.' 'Most of the time, I was simply just listening. I have so much respect for Danya and her work,' she said, referencing to director Danya Taymor. 'And as a director I learned so much watching her, how she makes sure the artists who were doing such special work were heard and supported.' Jolie revealed that her daughter was 'there the whole time' and Taymor also applauded the teen for 'giving me the most amazing notes.' Jolie will be a presenter at Sunday's ceremony along with Wicked's Cynthia Erivo and The Who's Pete Townshend. The Tonys are scheduled to air live on CBS and Paramount+ at 8pm Eastern Time on Sunday.
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Angelina Jolie gushes about how close she has become to 'thoughtful' daughter Vivienne... as teen has not been pictured with dad Brad Pitt in YEARS
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- Published on Friday, 14 June 2024 10:51
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The 49-year-old Oscar-winning actress shares the teen with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, who has not been photographed in public with Vivienne in many years, though they may be meeting in private. It has been a difficult time for Brad and the six kids he raised with Jolie, as eldest daughter Shiloh, 18, recently dropped his last name. Before she was Shiloh Jolie-Pitt now she is just Shiloh Jolie.But Angelina stills seems very close with all the kids following her split from Pitt almost eight years ago - in addition to Vivienne and Shiloh, she also has Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and Vivienne's twin brother Knox. This week Jolie told Deadline that she is closer than ever with Vivienne. She added she learned a lot about her youngest daughter through producing a Broadway show together. The Maleficent star was introduced to The Outsiders by 15-year-old Vivienne after the teenager saw its run in California last year, and she agreed to get involved with the New York production as a result of the youngster's passion. She told Deadline: 'My daughter Viv loves theatre. 'She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to. 'She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla [in San Diego] about five times and was telling me about it, and I had read the book, and I'd seen the film years ago.' At the urging of her daughter, Angelina revisited the material. And she began 'really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself. 'And I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her.' The Gia star then joined the production as producer, with her daughter as her assistant. And Angelina realized doing so was 'a moment to learn more about Viv.' She explained: 'It was a very different experience of understanding, of how this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she's communicating something to me. 'And that is the power of this material.'Jolie added: 'And then I had the privilege of watching everyone work over this last year to make it into what it is, and Vivienne has been there the whole way.' The Tomb Raider star previously admitted her youngest daughter reminds her of her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, because she doesn't want to be the 'centre of attention' though she works very hard. She told E! News: 'Viv reminds me of my mother, in that she isn't focused on being the center of attention but in being a support to other creatives. 'She's very thoughtful and serious about theatre and working hard to best understand how to contribute.'
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Angelina Jolie leads presenters at Tony Awards 2024 as her musical The Outsiders is up for 12 awards
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- Published on Thursday, 13 June 2024 03:53
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Angelina Jolie will be hitting the stage at the Tony Awards 2024 as she leads the star-studded presenters list.The 49-year-old A-lister will be the top name bestowing honors on Broadway's biggest night on Sunday as nominations were announced back in April.She is not the only big name hitting the stage as other presenters include Taraji P. Henson, Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Patrick Wilson, and Nick Jonas will also have important duties.In addition Idina Menzel, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nate Burleson, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Josh Gad, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Sean Hayes will also be presenting.Rounding out the list are Ashley Park, Jim Parsons, Wendell Pierce, Ben Platt, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Rannells, Solomon Thomas, Taylor Tomlinson, Pete Townshend, Tamara Tunie, and Adrienne Warren.Jolie definitely has a lot of interest in this year's ceremony as she serves as producer of The Outsiders musical which is up for a whopping 12 awards including the coveted top honor Best Musical.The Tony Awards 2024 nominations were announced in April with big names including Rachel McAdams, the Alicia Keys musical, Daniel Radcliffe recognized.Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg's movie adaptation of the Broadway classic West Side Story, will host this year's Tonys on June 16.Some of the highest-profile categories were announced Tuesday on CBS, read out by Renee Elise Goldsberry and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.The rest of the nominations were unveiled later the same day, via the official YouTube page for the Tony Awards. One of the nominees for best musical is Hell's Kitchen, a jukebox musical featuring songs by Alicia and loosely based on her life.
Hell's Kitchen was the most nominated musical, with 13 nods - a feat equaled this year only by the straight play Stereophonic about a 1970s rock band. The other best musical nominees include Suffs, a show about the suffragettes that has Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai among its producers.Illinoise, a jukebox musical of Sufjan Stevens' work, and The Outsider, based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, are also up for the top prize.The best musical nominations were rounded out by Water For Elephants, an adaptation of the bestselling novel that was previously made into a movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Notable snubs for best musical included the Britney Spears show Once Upon A One More Time, the as well as the adaptations of the classic movies Back To The Future, The Notebook and Days Of Wine And Roses.Rachel McAdams was nominated for best lead actress in a play in honor of her work in Mary Jane, starring her as the mother of a son with cerebral palsy.She is up against Sarah Paulson for Appropriate, a dark comedy about three siblings feuding over their father's estate after his death.Jessica Lange is up for Mother Play, playing the mother of teens portrayed by Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger and The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.The category includes Betsy Aidem in Prayer For The French Republic, a dark comedy by Joshua Harmon about mounting antisemitism in France. (...)
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Angelina Jolie wants a 'quiet' 49th birthday party at home with her kids - after ex Brad Pitt was 'upset' by them dropping his name amid deepening rift
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 June 2024 07:23
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Angelina Jolie is reportedly looking to have a relaxed birthday celebration at home amid escalating tensions between her six children and her ex-husband Brad Pitt.The actress, who turned 49 on Tuesday, plans to have a 'quiet' birthday with the kids, a source close to her told People.'Angelina will celebrate her birthday with a quiet day at home with her kids. Zahara is home from college, and she looks forward to everyone spending the day together,' they said.The actress-turned-activist shares Maddox, 22; Pax, 20; Zahara, 19; Shiloh, 18; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15, with her ex-husband Pitt, 60, whom she has been engaged with in a brutal divorce battle for years.The plans for a low-key birthday party were revealed after Shiloh became the latest of the children to drop 'Pitt' from her last name as soon as she turned 18.On Monday, the Babylon actor was set to be 'upset and aware' that Shiloh had filed to change her name.A source close to Oscar winner said his erasure from his daughter's life is just another indication that he has 'lost his children,' according to People.'He’s aware and upset that Shiloh dropped his last name,' the source claimed. 'He’s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter.'Notably, Pitt was already in the process of legally adopting a daughter who had been a part of his life for months before he and his then-partner Jolie had announced she was pregnant with Shiloh in January 2006.Jolie had traveled to Ethiopia to adopted her first daughter, Zahara, in July 2005, and Pitt had come with her on the trip.He was reported to be in the process of becoming Zahara's adopted father in December 2005, a month before he and Jolie announced her pregnancy. 'The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad,' the source continued. 'He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad.'They added that the distance between Pitt and his six children 'pains him.'
However, they noted that 'he’s still happy with Ines [de Ramon],' his girlfriend.Another source described as close to Pitt told the publication that the Tree Of Life star 'still loves all of his kids tremendously.''This whole process has been very hard for the whole family,' they added. If Shiloh's request is granted — and there is no indication that it would not be — she will subsequently go simply by 'Shiloh Jolie,' rather than her original full name, 'Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.'People previously reported that Pitt's youngest daughter Vivienne — who served as her mother Angelina Jolie's assistant when she produced the Broadways musical adaptation of The Outsiders — had listed her name as 'Vivienne Jolie' in the Playbill for the show.It is unclear if Vivienne has legally changed her name, but the minor would likely need either parental consent or extenuating circumstances to be allowed to do so before turning 18.Zahara previously introduced herself as 'Zahara Marley Jolie' when she joined the Mu Pi chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College late last year.Pitt and Jolie's oldest sons, Maddox and Pax, have reportedly not publicly used their father's last name in years, and both have been openly antagonistic toward him.Pitt and Jolie began dating publicly shortly after he and his then-wife Jennifer Aniston announced their divorce in 2005. The Mr. And Mrs. Smith costars remained unmarried for years despite having multiple adopted and biological children together, but they got engaged in 2012 and finally tied the knot in 2014.However, it was only around two years later when the Maleficent actress filed for divorce in 2016. She and Pitt were declared legally single in 2019.However, the two A-listers have been embroiled in an ongoing divorce battle over assets and custody for years since. A central issue seems to be a notorious private jet confrontation in 2016.An FBI report on the incident, which was published in 2022, saw Jolie accuse Pitt of physical assault while flying to California in 2016. She claimed that he was intoxicated and that he grabbed her by the head and shook her, and later pushed her down, as part of a confrontation allegedly related to their children.Jolie told the FBI that Pitt told the children that she was 'f***ing up this family,' and she said he punched the ceiling of the airplane four times. She claimed that at one point he poured beer on her and a blanket she was under with multiple children. Source close to Pitt later claimed that he never hit any of the children, though they admitted that he had been drinking.
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Shiloh Jolie paid for her own lawyer to drop Pitt surname - with mom Angelina Jolie blamed for worsening teen's rift with Brad
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- Published on Sunday, 02 June 2024 09:47
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Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh hired and paid for her own lawyer when she filed to drop the Pitt name on her 18th birthday.Family sources confirm that Shiloh, who turned 18 on May 27, was in the driver’s seat when it came to dropping ‘Pitt’ from her surname ‘Jolie Pitt.’ A source close to the matter said: ‘Shiloh hired her own lawyer and paid for it herself, so Angie doesn’t know and can’t speak for it. Documents to change Shiloh's name were lodged on Monday when she turned 18 – the earliest opportunity she could do so independently. The revelation that Shiloh paid herself suggests that the ugly spat between former couple Brad Pitt, 60, and Angelina Jolie, 48, may still rumble on in the form of legal action from the six children the couple once shared. There were suggestions in supermarket magazines last month that Shiloh was planning to move in with her father as soon as she could. And other stories suggested that movie star Pitt was ‘hopeful’ of reconciling with her now that she is an adult. However in truth there seems zero prospect that he will reconcile with his children following a notorious and disputed private jet confrontation in 2016. An FBI report into the incident published in 2022 saw Jolie accuse Pitt of physical assault while flying to California.She accused her ex of grabbing her by the head and shoulders and shaking her while yelling 'You're f**king up this family.'The report also saw Brad accused of punching the ceiling of the jet four times, snarling at his children and pouring beer on Angelina. Brad was also accused of attacking one of the couple's children on the plane, but was later cleared of wrongdoing by the LAPD. There have been long custody battles which ended eventually in a victory for Pitt, who got 50-50 custody in 2021 only to have it overturned on appeal.He’s had a judge intervene to tell Angelina she mustn’t listen in on his mobile phone calls with the children. The judge has also ordered ‘reunification therapy’ for Pitt and the kids.
The actor set up a skate park in his home for Shiloh, and more recently an art studio to reflect their common interest in art.He’s sent cars and security to ferry the children from her home to his whenever there is an allotted custody visit. Sadly, none of it has brought them closer.In fact son Pax said in an Instagram post in 2016 that all four of the youngest children – that’s including Shiloh – ‘tremble with fear in his presence.’ The two elder ones were at that point already declining point blank to see him.The current situation has seen the children - Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh 18, and Knox and Vivienne, 15 - form a tight gang of seven with his former wife.Last year Jolie called them 'the closest people to me in my life, and they’re my close friends. We had to heal. There are things we needed to heal from.’ While Shiloh has repeatedly walked red carpets with her famous actress mother, neither she nor her siblings have done the same for Brad. He will often say how proud he is of Shiloh – but clearly the feeling is not mutual.‘This is the result of textbook parental alienation, and it is a great sadness in him life,’ I am told. ‘There have been years and years of (Angelina) telling and retelling the same lies about (Brad) and the reality is that she has alienated the kids, and the reality is that it is upsetting to Brad. He cares about all of them. It is devastating.’ nBeing a father was hugely important to him. He could now start a family with his serious girlfriend Ines de Ramon who now lives with him. She is 31, he is 60.Shiloh, a creative soul who for some years went by the name of John, is a dance student. Speaking at the premiere of his film Bullet Train in 2022, Brad said of her accomplishments: ‘It brings a tear to the eye, yeah. I’m Mr. Two-Left-Feet here.’ For all that pride though, and despite years of custody visits, there is only rejection.Zahara, a student at Spelman College, Atlanta, no longer uses the name Pitt. Vivienne has been working this spring with Angelina on a musical, The Outsiders in New York and is credited as simply ‘Vivienne Jolie’ in the programme. Maddox and Pax are openly antipathetic towards their father, having not used the Pitt name for years. It seems he has been totally cut out.
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