Brad Pitt’s abuse allegations were the elephant in the room at this year’s Golden Globes
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“One particularly controversial detail here was Pitt’s own relationship with Weinstein. Angelina Jolie is one of the many women who accused Weinstein of sexual assault, but despite knowing this at the time, Jolie says Pitt still approached Weinstein to produce a film in 2012. “We fought about it,” said Jolie.”
Your husband kissing the ring of the guy who sexually assaulted you. Jfc.
Well reportedly Weinstein wanted massage from Gwyneth Paltrow and otherwise made her uncomfortable when she was Pitt's girlfriend.
When she told him he reportedly slammed Weinstein against a wall and threatened to kill him if he touched her.
So it seems to me there should be more to the story as this is big change in behavior.
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For those who hasn't heard about this case, let me educate. This is information from the FBI report, The New York Times reporting and the LA Times.
According to the FBI report, Jolie, who was interviewed in her Malibu home in October 2016, told FBI agents that the flight back to the U.S. had gotten off to a bad start after Pitt and their child Maddox had some sort of disagreement when the family took separate cars to get from the terminal to the plane.
Once they boarded, she said, she tried to talk to Pitt, who told her that their son “looks like a f— Columbine kid.”
About 90 minutes into the flight, Jolie said, Pitt asked her to come to the back of the plane to talk to him. He had been drinking, she said. They went into the restroom area at the back of the plane, where the kids couldn’t see them, and Pitt allegedly began yelling at her and “grabbed her by the head, shaking her, followed by grabbing her at the shoulders and shaking her.”
He allegedly “pushed her into the bathroom wall and was saying things like, ‘You’re f— up this family,’” and “punched the ceiling of the plane approximately four times,” according to the report. After one of their kids asked if “mommy” was OK, Pitt yelled; "No, mommy’s not ok. She’s ruining this family. She’s crazy!"At that point, one of the children allegedly yelled, “‘It’s not her, it’s you, you prick.’” which enraged Pitt. The actress then alleged that she saw him run toward one of the children “like he was going to attack,” at which point she said she got Pitt into a chokehold that he tried to break by throwing himself back and pushing her into the chairs behind them. Amid the altercation, Mr. Pitt “choked one of the children and struck another in the face,” the suit said.
Pitt allegedly continued ranting and at one point spilled wine all over a chair on the plane, causing what Jolie said was $25,000 worth of damage. She said he later poured beer on Jolie and on the blanket that was covering her and the kids.
Pitt “would start up a new rant every 30 minutes and pace through the plane yelling at everyone,” according to Jolie. She said the ranting “felt constant.” Upon arrival in the U.S., Jolie suggested that she and the kids go get a hotel room and get some sleep and proceed to California the next day, but Pitt told them nobody was getting off the plane, according to the report.
He allegedly yelled at them, “F— you. I’m f— leaving you” and got off the plane, apparently to smoke a cigarette. Jolie told the agents she and the kids were “shell shocked.”
After Pitt returned and the family embarked on the second leg of the flight, the ranting started up again, Jolie said. This time he allegedly berated her for breaking up the family. “This did not feel like a drunken rant, but it felt angry, pointed, and specific,” the report said.
Jolie told agents that as they were about to land, she told the kids to get their things, then told Pitt that they were going to a hotel to get some sleep. Pitt allegedly yelled that she wasn’t taking his kids and jumped out of the bed he was in and pushed her.
“They began fighting and the altercation continued to the back door of the plane,” the report says. Pitt allegedly pushed Jolie down and told the kids they weren’t getting off the plane. Jolie estimated that they were there another 20 minutes.
Jolie alleged that she suffered injuries to her back and elbow as a result.
Black-and-white photocopies of the photos are included in the report, as well as handwritten pages provided by Jolie, from her children, containing descriptions of the incident.
After this, Jolie filed for divorce days after, and got full custody of their six children. Pitt only had supervised visits with his children for many years after that.
He got joint custody first in May 2021, but this was vacated in july 2021 because the judge had ties with Pitts lawyers.
Maddox has testified against him in court. There's no known photos of Pitt and his children together since, and when Pitt has been asked about them on the red carpet several times, he shows complete surprise about what's happening in their lives.
Either Maddox or Pax (sorry, I can’t remember right now) has called out Pitt on his private instagram on fathers day where he wrote over a photo of Pitt with his new Oscar; «Happy fathers day to this world class asshole!! You time and time again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person. You have no concideration or empathy for towards your 4 youngest children who tremble in fear in your presence. You will never understand the damage you have done to my family because you are incapable of doing so. You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell. You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want, but the truth will come to light someday. So happy fathers day, you fucking awful human being».
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The decoupling of Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt has stretched on for years, drawn out by a court battle for custody of their children and, more recently, a lawsuit instigated by Mr. Pitt over the French winery, Château Miraval, that the couple bought more than a decade ago. Mr. Pitt’s lawsuit, filed this year, accused his ex-wife of violating his “contractual rights” when she sold her half of the company to a subsidiary of Stoli Group without his approval.
Ms. Jolie’s cross complaint said she only sold her stake elsewhere after talks broke down over his demand that she sign “a nondisclosure agreement" that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children.”Her filing states that the F.B.I. agent who investigated allegations that Mr. Pitt physically assaulted Ms. Jolie and their children on the plane in 2016 had “concluded that the government had probable cause to charge Pitt with a federal crime for his conduct that day.”
“She has gone to great lengths to try to shield their children from reliving the pain Pitt inflicted on the family that day,” Ms. Jolie’s lawyers wrote in the cross complaint. “But when Pitt filed this lawsuit seeking to reassert control over Jolie’s financial life and compel her to rejoin her ex-husband as a frozen-out business partner, Pitt forced Jolie to publicly defend herself on these issues for the first time.”
