Angelina Jolie’s lawyer, James Simon, confirmed to the Associated Press that the couple had reached an agreement. News of the deal was first reported by People magazine.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt,” Mr. Simon said in a statement. “She and her children left all the properties they shared with Mr. Pitt, and since then she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family.”
“This is just part of a long process that started eight years ago. Honestly, Angelina is exhausted, but she’s relieved that this part is over.”
– Me James Simon, lawyer for Angelina Jolie
No court documents have been filed yet and a judge will have to sign off on the agreement. An email sent late Monday evening to Brad Pitt’s attorney seeking comment was not immediately responded to.
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Angelina Jolie, 49, and Brad Pitt, 61, were among Hollywood’s hottest couples for 12 years. The two Oscar-winning actors have six children together.
Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, after a private jet flight from Europe during which she claimed Brad Pitt engaged in abusive behavior towards her and their children. In 2019, a judge declared them divorced and single, but property division and child custody had to be resolved separately.
A private judge the two had hired to handle the case issued a ruling shortly after that included equal custody of their children, but Angelina Jolie requested that the judge ultimately be removed from the case due to an unreported conflict of interest. An appeals court agreed, the judge was removed from office and the couple had to start from scratch.
No details of the agreement were immediately revealed, and the couple’s use of a private judge – an increasingly common move among separating celebrities – kept the proceedings largely secret. Some details, however, were revealed in a separate lawsuit filed by Brad Pitt. It is alleged that Angelina Jolie reneged on an agreement under which she would sell her ex-husband his half of a French winery that the two owned together. It is not clear how the divorce agreement will affect this trial.
