Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Deny Split And Will Sue ‘News of the World’
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Hot Momma
(HMG) – After weeks of silence following allegations that their union as a couple was over, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have come out swinging, and one tabloid is about to get socked in the nose. Brangelina’s lawyer, Keith Schilling, said Monday that the pair had commenced proceedings against Britain’s News of the World for making “false allegations about their relationship” – and said that the reports are not true. In the story published on January 24, the paper said the couple had visited a divorce lawyer in December, had agreed to a division of assets and custody of their children, and would separate imminently. It wasn’t the first tabloid to allege the couple were having problems, but it was the most specific.
The BBC reports that Branglina’s legal team sought an apology and retraction of the story which had subsequently been “widely republished by mainstream news outlets” but the News of The World had failed to meet “reasonable demands” for an apology. So it seems that Brangelina’s team thought that getting News of the World to first retract the story was a better way of clearing the air, than making a public statement, but the tabloid failed to cooperate, so it came down to taking legal action.
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