With a lot of the years-long legal conflicts between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, I often miss the forest for the trees. I’m so focused on the minutiae of legal filings, lawsuits and Brad’s unhinged crisis management, I miss the fact that at some point, the broad strokes actually reached the wider public. A lot of people understand that Pitt terrorized his wife and children on the plane in 2016. A lot of people understand – now – that the kids want nothing to do with Pitt and that Angelina Jolie was right to take her children out of an abusive situation. Shiloh Jolie’s name change was sort of a turning point for this whole eight-years-long story, as was Brad’s reaction to it (panic briefings). Well, I’m not sure how much stock to put in this In Touch Weekly story, but apparently Brad is ready to wave a white flag of surrender.
It wasn’t exactly a Father’s Day to remember for Brad Pitt. On June 16, his daughter Vivienne was celebrating nearly 3,000 miles from L.A. with her mom, Angelina Jolie, at the 77th annual Tony Awards in NYC. The snub came on the heels of Brad’s other daughter Shiloh filing legal paperwork on May 27 — her 18th birthday — to have his last name officially removed from her surname (Vivienne, 15, and sister Zahara, 19, have also dropped “Pitt”).
“Brad’s kids,” an insider exclusively tells In Touch, “want nothing to do with him.”
It seems the 60-year-old is the biggest casualty in his epic divorce and custody battle with Angelina, 49. Now a source tells In Touch the Bullet Train star is ready to call a truce with his ex in a desperate attempt to repair his relationship with his kids. (The exes — who split in 2016 — also share Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, and Knox, 15.)
“Never in a million years did Brad imagine this yearslong fight and rivalry,” says the source of the two, who are also currently wrangling over the sale of her share of their winery Château Miraval. “He’s willing to throw his hands up and surrender.” Says the source: “The kids’ dropping Brad’s name is just the tip of the iceberg.”
He regrets prioritizing his war with their mom. “Brad spent a lot of time and money trying to do what he thought was the right thing for his kids, but now he’s wondering if it was worth it,” says the source, noting that the big reason he wants to keep Miraval is to pass it down to the children. “Miraval was something for the kids to have and build on when he’s gone, but if they don’t want it, it’s a moot point.”
To get through to them, Brad knows he must make peace with Angelina first. He’s ready to make concessions. In late May, a judge ordered Angelina to produce every NDA (nondisclosure agreement) she signed with a third party between the years 2014 to 2022. Brad hoped to disprove her claim that she refused to sell her half of Miraval to him because he demanded she sign an NDA. (Her team said Brad was trying to silence her from speaking about abuse allegations against him.)
Now, says the source, “Brad is saying there will be no more demands for NDAs.”
Waving a white flag may be Brad’s only hope for a relationship with his kids. “He’s sorry for everything that went down, and he knows he wasn’t a model husband or dad during the time they were together.” Now sober, adds the source, “he is a better person.” He’s giving the kids space, for now. “Brad knows he can’t force the issue and he can’t make his children want to see him,” continues the source. “It has to be on their terms, but he’ll be there when they’re ready.”
As I said, I don’t know how much stock to put in this, but I do think that this part is especially interesting: “Brad spent a lot of time and money trying to do what he thought was the right thing for his kids, but now he’s wondering if it was worth it…Miraval was something for the kids to have and build on when he’s gone, but if they don’t want it, it’s a moot point.” So the whole reason he was financially abusing Angelina for years and trying to keep her silent on the abuse was so that the kids could inherit Miraval one day? Meanwhile, he kicked Angelina and the kids out of Miraval AND his LA home as soon as Angelina filed for divorce. “I’m doing this for my kids” while banning the kids from Miraval out of spite is quite a choice.
I do believe the larger story about the kids despising him and wanting nothing to do with him, and he’s just realizing now – now that Shiloh is 18 years old – that it’s going to get publicly messy in a hurry if he continues to screw over Angelina and the kids choose to talk about it. But mostly I think the “white flag of surrender” is about Brad getting his ass handed to him in three different courts. Not only is Angelina winning significant battles in their legal issues, but Yuri Shefler is probably going to end up owning Miraval outright by the end of this.
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I call bullsh*t. It’s just more gaslighting from Pitt and his team to try and make HIM look like the victim. No thanks.
Or he’s realizing he can’t get all of his adult kids to sign NDA’s so there might potentially be a Daddy Dearest in his future.
I would buy that book so fast!
Brad reminds me of King Charles here. He talks about his love for his kids while behaving in a way that isn’t loving. It sounds like Brad has been living in fantasyland, dreaming of a future where the kids will want Miraval, yet not seeming to be working on his current relationships with them.
I think the – wanting the kids to inherit the winery is total crap.
I think the legal battle is about financial control and abuse- its been almost a decade- and he is still punishing the woman he abused for leaving him. And refusing to sign the NDA so she could never tell anyone about his abuses.
But the PR stories his team planted about his the kids come over for pizza and he shiloh wants to move in with him, and how he sees them but never in public to protect their privacy- those no longer pass muster- because the kids are making their feelings known.
He has to change strategies.
He has ruined Oceans 11 and its sequel for me.
From your mouth to a publisher’s ears!
There will 100% be a Daddy dearest and Angie’s oldest son will write it. Maddox is of age now and I suspect he will not watch Brad slander his mother for much longer.
In fact wasn’t it Maddox who defended Angie on the plane ?
I think that is the real reason Brad is putting out this messaging.
I will believe it when he actually shuts up and settles and moves on and stops the crap woe is he stories.
Same here but I genuinely think Pitt is in financial trouble. It would be fitting if his attempts to bankrupt Angie resulted in his penury IMHO.
Yeah I think so too. He was complaining about his lawyer fees during Babylon press tour. Something he’s never really done before. For it to come up like that it means it’s troubling him. As it should
Pitt is definitely having financial trouble, hence why he sold his shares in a production company, sold his huge house, and sold other properties.
He owes around $53 million to investors, if I remember correctly AJ recently joined Yuri Shefler’s lawsuit against Pitt and their lawsuit is $250 million which is what he owes AJ and Yuri in their shares of the profit for the last 8 years, This is why he is so desperate to get Aj sell of Miraval to Yuri revoke ( talk about fuck around and find out )
He owes millions in back taxes in France for text fraud. The 20 million dollar lawsuit in New Orleans and there’s an artist and France that has been suing Pitt for payment for years for work he commissioned she did and he didn’t pay.
This doesn’t include his multiple lawyers, PR team, crisis manager, and all of his other expenses. He simply does not have all of this money. He’s also too stupid to do the right thing which could have prevented all of this.
How self involved is this guy? Vivienne “snubbed” him because she was celebrating a Tony win with her mother? God he really does think the entire world revolves around him.
Can there be a week without his team putting out a piece in tabloids? He is exhausting. Maybe, as a first step of “waving a white flag “, he can zip it?
The weekly soemtimed daily stories are exhausting. I only recently starting paying attention to how frequent they are. don’t blame the kids for being over it.
I’m thinking someone sat his ass down and told him that he was bleeding money faster than he can make it. Give it up, dude. Get your PR team to release statements like “I’M DOING THIS FOR MY KIDS” and then quietly settle. Not that it matters now because his kids hate him. I also predict he will lose Miraval because of Yuri, but whatever at this point. I take any gossip with In Touch Weekly with a grain of salt.
He will probably lose Miraval because he is an idiot. He can be happy that yuri is russian because now it’s difficult for them in Europe to make businesses. They will not be allowed to buy his part. Maybe through another company but not by a russian oligarch.
“White flag” aren’t the two words that he should be spouting right now; they are “I’m sorry”. Three words would be even better – “I was wrong” – but don’t hold your breath for those.
He fails to understand that he terrorized them all before and after the plane attack, then kicked it up a notch using lawyers and attempting to hijack public sympathy.
He can’t now claim that it was all for the kids (a lie), and he’s stopping the attacks now, so everybody should just calm down and give him a cookie. That’s not how child development, nor PR, nor litigation works.
Bawk-bawk Brad, all those chickens are coming home to roost. Get ready to deal with the mess that they bring.
I don’t think he8s realized anything, narcissists never do, but maybe people on his team are trying to limit some of the damage he’s done. Shiloh can now tell her story! And the gossip press reading public remembers her being born and will listen to her with a gentleness that Angelina wouldn’t be given. And racism being what it is, they will believe Shiloh more than they would Maddox, Pax and Zahara, too. So Brad’s team are stepping lightly!
I came here to say that he is a narcissist and his protestations of love for everyone while doing significant damage to everyone are typical of the narcissist.
I could be wrong, but I would be surprised if any of the kids “tell their story” just for the sake of it, as in a scandalous book, or a public catharsis kind of thing. What I can see is if and when any of the kids do something of note, which they very well may (it’s already starting), they might agree to be interviewed to discuss their project. Under that umbrella, questions may be asked, and some details may come out. Other than that, I would expect them to follow Angelina’s lead and keep their private lives private. Classy and dignified, like their mama. Well done, Angie!
Yeah, I think they’ll follow Angelina’s lead. She has a toxic relationship with *her* father, and never says a word. That’s what the kids will do. In the future, he’ll just be someone who they had some very unfortunate experiences with, but is no longer relevant to their lives anymore.
Which is why I LOVE what Shiloh did. She didn’t say a word, just filed for a name change. That simple act expressed exactly how she feels without having to drop a single word in any reporter’s ear, and it completely contradicted all the lies that Brad’s team have been spewing for months about her.
I agree, I think if they were going to spill, it would have happened by now, as several of them are over 18. I hope if any of them do decide to though, they are all on board and on the same page with making it public. But I have a feeling they’re letting the name stuff and no relationship with him speak for itself.
If they did go public with any comments, he’d just cry and play the victim yet again.
Im sure that idea of a family heritage was true… at one point. Brad is scared shtless now. He thought he could bully their mom, she held on for so many years, and now the kids got him by the balls.
I am of Brad’s age group, who I think would be his biggest fans. I have lost all respect for him. Now he is in his 60s, none of his six children will see him but yay! he is in a relationship with a lady half his age. Jennifer Aniston said he was missing a sensitivity chip after he publicly cheated, seems like that was an understatement.
I’ve always believed that Brad totally misunderstood his children’s priorities and what they were most angry/hurt about. One of the really noticeable things to me that Angie has said about Shiloh from the time she was very little was about how much she absolutely adored her older brothers. The whole conversation about her going by “John” was underpinned by Angie’s emphasis on how much Shiloh wanted to be just like Maddox and Pax. It’s been obvious for YEARS that Maddox doesn’t consider Brad his dad. And, yet, Brad Did. Not. Give. A. Shit. Really just seemed like whatever, don’t care about that kid, and perhaps most ugly, the implication that Maddox was somehow not as much “Brad’s” as the other kids. My own theory is that, yes, the kids are extremely protective of Angelina, but also about Maddox. And I really wonder if that isn’t as big if not bigger issue for the other kids with Brad. Including in terms of what happened on the plane…
I have a similar theory. I think the younger siblings are extremely protective of not just Maddox but all of the older, adopted kids. They have been together as sibling unit since they were very young. They don’t differentiate between each other. Add the older siblings protecting them against Brad’s alcoholism, then it makes sense that in return they’re fiercely standing up for them now.
“It seems the 60-year-old is the biggest casualty in his epic divorce and custody battle with Angelina, 49.”
I say, WTF??? Brad is the biggest casualty? This is some bold ass statement from his team. I would argue that the kids suffered the most here, with Angelina coming in a close second.
I was stunned by that, too. Brad? Brad is the biggest victim? Please.
How much in legal fees and attorney fees does a divorce that drags out for a decade cost the participants?
Really Brad? You HAD to take your “fling” (rhymes with “ore”) , a married woman with a kid to the home where you got married and your mother in lay was buried / had a plaque on. This is on you, all of it bro, “ keeping it for the kids”, but you disrespected it. Boo hoo! Stay sore!
If this is true, why is he continuing his war against Angelina in the press?
Good if it gives Angelina and the kids peace. As for Brad, he’s not sober, he’s dry. He clearly hasn’t done any of the work. So I don’t believe this new “white flag” approach is about a change of heart, it’s about strategy and PR. I wonder which team just got switched out, the lawyers or the PR advisors. Something changed and I know it’s not something inside of Brad, so what was it?
I have no more words for brad honestly. He is a typical narcissist. And you are absolutely correct, now that Shilo can talk for herself and will if he continues, hes afraid because with the name change she showed him where the journey is going.
But i highly doubt that a russian company at the actual political climate in Europe will be allowed to get miraval completely. Just a year later and Angie could not have sold to them at all. And yes, these Oligarchs are all involved with WP in some ways.
It is not a Russian company. The owner is Russian and has not lived in Russia in over 20 years and is an opposer of Putin. So, yes Yuri Shefler will most likely end up owning Miraval outright. Pitt doesn’t have a leg to stand on in that case, plus Pitt’s tax fraud with Miraval will work against him.
I think he will still be involved on some level but will end up dramatically reducing/selling his own shares. The Perrin were fine and wanted to work with Yuri. They’ll be able to move on.
Yes i know, that’s what they all say now to safe face. European courts see that differently. They all say that they are not involved or against WP blabla. They all became oligarchs because of WP and European/American governments know this. Many Oligarchs live outside Russia, that doesn’t mean anything. WP Girlfriend lives in Switzerland.
@ FIFI
Perrin Is crooked they also have been named in lawsuits as being involved in some of Pitt’s illegal activities regarding Miraval if they wanted to work with Yuri only because Pitt was a sinking ship and didn’t want to go down with him.
Pitt illegally sold the Miraval trademark to Perrin and created multiple companies under the trademark so they could share the profits 50-50 each cutting out Yuri/ Angelina when she owned it. The courts put a freeze on all of that. I think the Pitt clothing line and skin care were part of illegal activities, and that’s why we don’t hear anything more about those businesses.
Now whether or not Perrin are victims of Pitt’s lies remains to be seen.
@Alla
Your comment sounds like it comes straight out of Pitt’s smear campaigns.
Yuri company has been based out of Latvia and Putin has been going after Yuir since 2001 and Yuir has been a Putin opposer since before that. So where do you get that he is only saying that now? When it has been publicly known for over 2 decade .
Angelina purchased a house close to Brads home in Los Feliz. Brad sold the home and moved further aways from his kids.
Shiloh dropping his name is humiliating for his so he needs to adjust his strategy.
There was a CNN article recently about that that basically echoed what Angelina’s lawyer had said. That the this winery extension of the divorce and the NDA’s will in the end unearth what was sealed in their divorce.
The kids are obviously tired of him and whatever schemes his PR plans. I still think that’s why Shiloh ran to change her name. If true, he’s scared about the bios will say. He’s not genuine about it at all. Also saw on twitter Shiloh and Angelina got matching tattoos! Love that.
This. Brad’s peeps were crowing that Angelina had to turn over the NDAs but I bet that fool forgot what he put in the nda. I bet it proves everything and more. That’s why he’s now like oh white flag surrender. We don’t need to see the NDAs anymore. Uh-huh wonder why that is.
!00% this is because he’s getting his ass handed to him in court and wants to spin it so it seems thoughtful and child-centric. Come on. I really hope Kaiser is right and the public has started to see him for what he is, but I feel like he has so much goodwill in Hollywood with powerful people and the public loves a handsome white man. I still look back on how we (the public) made his leaving his wife in a shitty way about the two women, and cringe.
I still remember all the sympathy he got when he left Jennifer Aniston on the pretext that he wanted children and she didn’t. Poor Brad, well of course he had to leave Jennifer, what choice did he have? And then cue years of faux headlines about Jennifer being pregnant. It was ludicrous.
Toxic Tom Markle and Brad Pitt seem to have PR people from the same camp.
Maybe if you just STFU and communicated in private you would not have all these issues Brad ?
wanting the kids to inherit the winery is total crap. Because we’ve all seen since the divorce & blocking Angelina Jolie and her children out of Miraval & Miraval buissness , he named All new Miraval products after his own name, image & his co-corrupt buisness partners Marc Perrin etc, he even transferred his shares to Perrin for FREE,just to make him majority shareholder and owner. Yuri Shefler is right to sue these corrupt financial abusers for $350, million lawsuit. Pitt showed he never intends to leave Miraval to his 6 EX KIDS whom he insults daily by announcing he’s having replacement family with Paul Wesley’s cheating wife Ines. The thirsty social climber on hire