Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. File photoLos Angeles: Brangelina is no more. Actor-director Angelina Jolie Pitt has filed for divorce from her actor husband Brad Pitt, bringing an end to one of the world's most star-studded, tabloid-generating romances.
An attorney for Jolie Pitt, Robert Offer, said Tuesday that she has filed for the dissolution of the marriage. Offer said the decision to divorce was made 'for the health of the family'.
"This decision was made for the health of the family. She will not be commenting, and asks that the family be given its privacy at this time," attorney Offer said in the statement.
Hollywood entertainment website TMZ reported that Jolie had filed for full physical custody of all six of their children. TMZ, citing a legal filing, said Jolie 'was extremely upset' by Pitt's parenting methods.
The couple has six children together: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Though together for 12 years, Pitt and Jolie Pitt only wed in August 2014. They married privately in the French hamlet of Correns in Provence with their children serving as ring bearers and throwing flower petals. They announced the ceremony days later.
TMZ reported Jolie cited their separation date as Sept. 15.
Pitt, 52, one of Hollywood's leading men, was married to actress Jennifer Aniston in 2003 when he and Jolie began filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the story of two professional killers who have unknowingly been assigned to kill each other.
There were reports of an affair during that time, but Jolie told Vogue magazine they were only 'very, very good friends' until Pitt and Aniston split in 2005.
It was the third marriage for Jolie, who was previously married to Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.
Jolie, 41, the estranged daughter of actor Jon Voight, had a bohemian reputation early in her career but more recently has taken on humanitarian causes.
Though their initial romance — begun after the pair starred together in Mr. and Mrs. Smith — sparked an avalanche of interest, Jolie Pitt and Pitt settled into their own unique kind of domesticity.
The pair adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. And they sought to direct the glare of their celebrity status toward other causes. Jolie Pitt, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, became an outspoken voice for refugees and various causes in Africa, as well as for breast cancer treatment after undergoing a double mastectomy.
Jolie, who won a best-supporting actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted in 2000, also launched herself as a film director. Last year, the couple starred together in her By the Sea, playing a glamorous couple vacationing together in France while their marriage was on the rocks.
(With agency inputs)
