Despite the fact that Angelina Jolie has brought up her family in her hometown of Los Angeles, she is eager to experience a change of environment. On the other hand, the actress who plays Maria has stated that she is unable to leave the sunny city in southern California until the divorce proceedings between her and her ex-husband Brad Pitt are resolved.
She is forced to "be [in Los Angeles] from a divorce," according to the Hollywood goddess, who is 49 years old, providing a rare glimpse into her legal battle with Brad, who is 60 years old.
“But as soon as [my kids are] 18, I’ll be able to leave,” Angelina told The Hollywood Reporter in a story published on Friday, August 30.
The divorce petition was submitted by the "Maleficent" actress to Brad in the year 2016. In 2019, they were officially recognized as being single. Due to the fact that they have not yet reached a decision over child custody for their twin children, Vivienne and Knox, who are 16 years old, they have not yet finalized their divorce split. Additionally, Brad and Angelina are engaged in a dispute regarding collective assets, one of which is their French winery known as Chateau Miraval.
The adult children that Angelina and Brad have together are Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh. Vivienne and Knox are also part of their family. Towards the end of the discussion, Angie revealed that she desires "privacy" for her children while they maneuver through the challenges of life as young people.
“When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety. I have a house now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be … that humanity that I found across the world is not what I grew up with here,” Angelina stated.
Angelina has disclosed that, following her significant relocation, she will "spend a lot of time in Cambodia," as a result of her commitment to conducting humanitarian work. “I’ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world,” she noted.
The previous few years have been a time of growth and development for Angelina’s children. Fortunately, Pax, who is 20 years old, and Maddox, who is 23 years old, discovered a passion and talent in the film industry, which led them to work on her most recent picture, Maria.
Zahara, who was 19 years old at the time, relocated to Atlanta in the fall of 2022 in order to participate in the Spelman College program. Following the successful completion of her first year of schooling, Zahara became a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority offered by the educational establishment.
“My name is Zahara Marley Jolie. And [I] landed all the way from the Golden State in the city full of angels: Los Angeles, California,” she said during an initiation ceremony held in November 2023, which was captured and shared in a video shared by Essence.
There were other siblings who did not mention their father's last name in their introductions, but Zahara was the only one who did not include it in her introduction.
The month of May marked Shiloh's 18th birthday, and as a tribute to reaching the age of majority, she decided to remove the surname Pitt from her name. On August 19, In Touch revealed that her petition to change her name to "Shiloh Nouvel Jolie" had been granted approval.
Vivienne, on the other hand, is also enthusiastic about the theater and served as a volunteer assistant at the time that Angelina was coproducing the musical “The Outsiders.” Despite the fact that she did not include Pitt in her last name on the playbill, she listed her name as "Vivienne Jolie." This served as a strong indication of her position regarding the contentious divorce that occurred between her parents.
In the family's eyes, changing the name was the least of their concerns. After crashing his electric bike into a car in July, Pax was involved in a major accident that resulted in significant injuries. He was taken to the hospital and had a head injury, but his condition is currently considered to be stable.
Angelina blamed Brad for the tragedy since he was not a good example, according to an insider who spoke exclusively to In Touch Weekly the following month when the accident occurred. While this was going on, the insider stated that the actor from "Bullet Train" considered that Angie ought to have made sure that he was safe while he was driving.
“From Brad’s perspective it’s absurd for her to try to put any sort of blame on him. She’s the one who’s there day to day, he’s barely around because she’s totally shut him out and poisoned the kids against him. He’d love to be there more for Pax, and all the kids, but she’s managed to turn them against him so much he’s practically out of the picture, so to suddenly try to scapegoat him when something goes wrong is completely unfair,” an unnamed source told the entertainment news outlet.
