Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane, celebrated her 80th birthday on Thursday with a big family bass shot by her dedicated movie star son at his beach house on the California coast.
But Pitt’s six children with ex-wife Angelina Jolie apparently did not attend. They were absent from photos on Jane Pitt’s social media posing with other members of her extended family, the Daily Mail reported.
Jane and her husband, William Pitt, have not seen Pitt’s children in the four years since he and Jolie were embroiled in a lengthy divorce and custody battle, according to a report in The Sun.
It turns out that Jane and William Pitt may be one of the victims of this ongoing battle, which is heating up again with a new submission from the court by making Jolie with the judge overseeing ‘ the matter of care.
If so, Jane and William Pitt are among a number of grandparents who lose access to grandchildren, usually due to a dispute with an adult child or with that current or former spouse of that adult child. The situation of “foreign grandparents” has become just enough that it has received interest from family therapists, child development experts and support and advocacy groups.
The Sun reported that Maddox, 19, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 12, regularly visited Pitt’s parents at their home in Missouri when he and Jolie were together.
“The children would riot,” the source said. “The Pitts have an enormous backyard and they would go sledding in the winter and have campfires in the summer.”
But those visits ended after Jolie, 45, filed for divorce in September 2016, claiming that Pitt, 56, had a problem with drinking and controlling his anger. But the source said that the main reason the Pitts have been preserved from their grandchildren is Jane Pitt’s acrimonious relationship with Jolie.
“Jane is a Christian conservative who once fought gay marriage, while Angelina is a liberal who has dated women, so it was never a recipe for friendship,” the source said. “But no one ever thought it would stay that way.”
A Pitt spokesman declined to comment on The Sun report, while Jolie’s representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
The custody battle between Pitt and Jolie is heating up again after People reported last month that the ex-couple ran well enough to visit each other’s houses. After family therapy sessions, they learned to be “friendly” with parents, People reported.
But on Monday, Jolie charged the court with fighting, claiming that the private judge in Pitt’s divorce was disqualified for failing to disclose his business relationship with one of Pitt’s attorneys. report People. It also happens that Judge John W. Ouderkirk married the couple in 2014, after they had been together for 10 years.
Pitt and Jolie, like other high-profile couples, pay for a private judge to check their divorce case so that many of the documents with their personal and financial information can be sealed. However, some procedures need to be disclosed in open court.
Pitt and Jolie were declared divorced in April 2019, under a bifurcated judgment, meaning they could be declared single while finances, child abuse and other issues were still being negotiated. A trial for child care is set for October, but Jolie does not want Ouderkirk to handle it.
In a submission to the Superior Court in Los Angeles, Jolie claimed that Ouderkirk was late and did not see enough about other cases he was working on that involved Pitt’s attorney Anne C. Kiley, People and the Daily Mail reported. Jolie’s preservation said it does not matter if Ouderkirk is not actually biased. California law says a disqualification is necessary if one person is aware that the facts can “reasonably raise a doubt” about a judge’s ability to remain impartial, Jolie’s submission said.
But Pitt’s site has claimed that Jolie’s objections to Ouderkirk are a “Hail Mary” and an attempt to settle the case ahead of the October trial.
