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Pitt seeking to adopt Jolie's two kids
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-03 15:04
Brad Pitt is seeking to become the adoptive father of Angelina Jolie's
children, the actor's publicist announced Friday.
Actor Brad Pitt
holds Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara upon his arrival at Tokyo's
international airport at Narita on in this Sunday Nov. 27, 2005 file
photo. Brad Pitt is seeking to become the adoptive father of Angelina
Jolie's children, the actor's publicist announced Friday, Dec. 2, 2005. A
legal petition seeking to change the names of the children to Zahara
Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt was filed Friday in Los Angeles,
publicist Cindy Guagenti said in a written statement to The Associated
Press. [AP] |
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A legal petition seeking to change the names of the children to Zahara
Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt was filed Friday in Los Angeles, publicist
Cindy Guagenti said in a written statement to The Associated Press.
"We are confirming that Brad Pitt is in the process of becoming the adoptive
father of both children," the statement said. "No further comment is being
made."
Rumors of an off-screen relationship between the stars of "Mr. & Mrs.
Smith" have been circulating for a year. Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia in
July to pick up Zahara, now about 10 months old.
He and actress Jennifer Aniston announced their separation in January, and
Aniston filed for divorce in March, citing irreconcilable differences. The
divorce became final in October.
Pitt, 41, has denied Jolie, 30, was behind the split.
Jolie, twice-divorce, had often talked of adopting a second child. In 2002,
she adopted Maddox in Cambodia, where she filmed "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." The
boy is now 4 years old.
As a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Jolie,
accompanied by Pitt, recently toured quake-devastated areas in Pakistan. She met
with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and toured a town largely
destroyed by the Oct. 8 earthquake that killed an estimated 86,000
people.
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