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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have begun legal action against a British tabloid that reported the celebrity couple was going to split, a lawyer acting on their behalf confirmed Monday.

Keith Schillings, of London-based Schillings lawyers, said in a statement that the couple had begun legal proceedings against the News of The World, a Sunday tabloid and Britain’s highest selling newspaper.

He said the newspaper had made “false and intrusive allegations” when it reported Jan. 24 that Pitt and Jolie had agreed to separate, to divide assets worth 205 million pounds ($320 million) and had made arrangements regarding the custody of their six children.

Lawyers for the couple lodged a claim at London’s High Court on Monday to begin a legal case against the newspaper, Schillings said. Read the rest of this entry »

Anne Hathaway dishes on the art of the movie kiss and wishes she could be as good as Angelina Jolie in the latest issue of British GQ.

“It’s a totally different experience,” she tells the magazine. “But really you have to be Angelina Jolie to pull that off and still look good. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I ain’t no Angie.”

“If you’re both unattached and you get along, of course, kissing in a movie is fun,” she added. “But you can never get truly deep down and into it. Well, I can’t. Jennifer Garner — now that girl can movie kiss!”

Source: The Improper

Even in a jittery, cash-starved year, some talent is going to beplatinum-plated, recession-proof, and flop-resistant. Interviewing scores of industry experts, the author crunches the numbers to rank the 40 top moneymakers of 2009, along with the projects (a third Fockers movie, anyone?) behind their paydays.

32.

Angelina Jolie
(Media Talent Group)
Estimated 2009 earnings: $21 million
$20 million: Salt (fee for starring in upcoming spy movie)
$1 million: Royalties from older films, other revenue

Source: Vanity Fair

To mark the third anniversary of their mother Marcheline Bertrand’s death, Angelina Jolie and her brother James Haven posted a tribute video to their mom on YouTube.

As Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s version of “Over the Rainbow” plays in the background, the video shows Jolie (at around age 6) playing with her mom and brother in Hawaii in 1981. Marcheline is seen showing Jolie how to hula dance.

“We miss you Mom – with Love, Angelina and James.” reads a message at the end of the clip.

Bertrand died after a long battle with ovarian cancer on Jan. 27, 2007.
Source: Us Magazine

ETA: The video has since been removed by Angelina and was only up for the day. Our sincerest well wishes go out to Angelina, James, and their families.

As untold numbers of children orphaned by the devastating Haiti earthquake suffer, Angelina Jolie has pledged her continued support for SOS Children’s Villages. The worldwide organization provides long-term care and prevention services for orphaned or abandoned children through villages and other programs and initiatives. The group’s CEO Heather Paul says that Jolie “has seen our work over the years firsthand — from Darfur refugee camps to rural areas of Africa and the Middle East…SOS is there before the tragedy, during the tragedy, and long after the cameras have gone home. So is Angelina Jolie.”

In a statement, the actress, mother and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador says that before the Caribbean nation’s cataclysm, SOS Villages had been raising more than 300 orphaned or abandoned children and cared for 4000-plus poverty-stricken kids and families in Haiti. Read the rest of this entry »

Angelina Jolie’s dialect coach from her upcoming film Salt, says a tabloid magazine story claiming he and the mom-of-six are having an affair is utter nonsense.

Howard Samuelsohn told Radar Online, “I’m 5’6, I’m 51 years old, and I’ve never been to The Waldorf [Astoria Hotel in New York, where the alleged affair occurred].

“I would like for someone to get the word out. [The story] is total bulls***.”

While he was listed as the only dialect coach for the film, Samuelsohn said there five other coaches working on the project but scoffed at any notion that they could have been cosying up to Angelina off-set.

“No way, no way! The thing is this is all crap,” he said. “I’m sure it was not a dialect coach. If it was somebody I’m sure it was not a dialect coach,” he said adamantly. “What we do is very discreet, if you did stuff like that, you wouldn’t get hired.”

As for Angie herself, Samuelsohn had nothing but kind words, calling the actress “sweet” and “great.”
Source: OK! Magazine

While Angelina Jolie hasn’t appeared in an ad for St. John for some time, the luxury knitwear company is speaking out on the absence of her famous face from their campaign.

The label’s chief executive officer Glenn McMahon tells WWD, “[Jolie] overshadowed the brand. We wanted to make a clean break from actresses and steer away from blondes and cleanse the palette.”

So while other luxury brands have hired the likes of Madonna, Emma Watson, Eva Mendes and others to star in their upcoming spring/summer 2010 campaigns, St. John turned to red-headed model Karen Elson, a decision McMahon sees as a step in the right direction for the brand.

“We needed to show a modern point of view of St. John,” he says. “We have evolved.” And according to the label’s website, executive vice president of design for St. John, George Sharp, who also directed the new ads, views Karen as the “epitome of the modern day woman…the St. John woman… strong, confident, sensual and approachable with effortless glamour.”
Source: People