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Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie filed for divorcefrom Brad Pitt on Monday, ending two years of marriage of the most high-profile andglamorous Hollywood couple.
Jolie, 41-year old, filed her petition Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, citingirreconcilable differences as the reason for the breakup.
Jolie is asking the court for physical custody of the couple's six children and to grant Pittvisitation rights. Jolie is not asking for spousal support. Among their six children, theygave birth to three of them and adopted two from Africa, one from Vietnam.
AngelinaJolieandBradPitt are in the movie of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2004. Photo: digitaltrends.com
Pitt and Jolie have been together since 2004 and married in August 2014. According to thecourt documents, it lists the date of separation of the pair on Sept. 15, two years and onemonth after they married.A source close to the couple told People magazine that "The divorce is a complete shock.They have definitely spent more time apart this year, but it's still a shock. They justcelebrated their wedding anniversary together."
"I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids," Pittsaid ina statement to People magazine. "I kindly ask the press to give them the space theydeserve during this challenging time."
A copy of the papers was filed at Los Angeles Superior Court. Photo:Reuters
The end of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's grand Hollywood romance is huge - bigger than the United Nations General Assembly on social media. #Brangelina was mentioned roughly 720 times per minute on Twitter, more than triple the mentions of the UN General Assembly, according to the analytics firm Zoomph.
The media reacted with surprise and sadness to the news. "Today shall go down as the day love died," Vogue magazine said in an online report.
But the spotlight on Twitter and Facebook was on Jennifer Aniston, Pitt's previous wife.
Many users posted memes featuring an ecstatic Aniston, including one of her on the phone saying: "And that, my friend, is what they call closure."
Pitt was still married to Aniston in 2004 when he and Jolie filmed Mr & Mrs Smith, the story of assassins unknowingly assigned to kill each other. There were reports of an affair, but Jolie told Vogue she was only "very, very good friends" with Pitt until he and Aniston split in 2005.
Everything about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - from their unparalleled glamour to their brood of six kids - made them stand out in Hollywood for a decade and see their every move watched closely the world over.
The Jolie-Pitts with their six children. Photo:thesun.co.uk
Contributing to this mega-star status was the way they met, their good looks, offbeat lifestyle, demanding and successful careers and humanitarian work.
Indeed, the way the couple formed is the stuff of legend in Hollywood.
Although they were known as "Brangelina," it was Jolie who seemed to be in charge in this duo, one like few others in the world and with access to the highest spheres of power.
Jolie also got involved in humanitarian work, while Pitt tended to be a bit more low profile.
She acted as goodwill ambassador and then special envoy for the UN refugee agency, became an outspoken activist against sexual violence in war zones and also worked to protect threatened animal species.
One of the world's most visible symbols in the battle against cancer, she underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 and later the removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes to prevent an aggressive form of the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and aunt.
(APD)
