A source is speaking out about Brad Pitt‘s personal life.
Specifically, the source spoke about the 58-year-old actor’s relationship with his children, his dating life, his hobbies, his new film, and more.
Brad and his ex Angelina Jolie share kids Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and 14-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
About his relationship with his kids, the source told People, “Brad has dinner with his younger kids when they are all in L.A. Since the kids are older now, they have their own life and friends. Brad still has a pretty good relationship with them.”
“Brad has his movies, he has Miraval and he has these other [passions],” the source added. “He loves architecture, he loves creativity. He’s living his best life under the circumstances.”
“Brad is having a great time promoting Bullet Train,” the insider continued. “It was a great project for him to film after months of COVID lockdown. The shooting schedule was intense and challenging for him. He loved it. He feels great about the movie.”
And about dating, the source added, “He has a large group of artsy friends in L.A. that he hangs out with. He’s dating, but is not in a serious relationship.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 11, 2022 6:21 AM |
[quote]“Brad has dinner with his younger kids when they are all in L.A.
Meaning Vivienne and Knox, but probably Shiloh, too. Hopefully Zahara as well.
I've always assumed he's still been seeing them while Angelina releases exaggerated statements to make it sound like they won't have anything to do with him.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 28, 2022 3:38 AM |
The biological kids seems to be the closest to him. I wonder about Zahara.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 28, 2022 4:23 PM |
It doesn't necessarily mean anything that he wasn't there, but Zahara has chosen her college. I guess while being nomads they were going to school?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 1, 2022 1:40 AM |
Is Brad Pitt a BOSSY BOTTOM?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 1, 2022 1:52 AM |
wow! Zahara going to Spelman! Really happy for her. She seems like the nicest of Ange & Brad’s children. I think she will end up graduating and hopefully lead a happy life out of the chaos.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 1, 2022 1:59 AM |
If this is true, I'm glad for him. I've always liked Brad. He has his faults, no doubt (as do we all) but overall he's always seemed like a good guy.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 1, 2022 2:09 AM |
I'm glad my dad never wore a dress.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 1, 2022 3:35 AM |
He's always seemed like a down to earth guy. The opposite of snob.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 1, 2022 3:41 AM |
I mentioned on another thread that he helped a friend who got locked out of her rooms (she was renting rooms in a big house in his neighborhood). She said Brad Pitt and Beck saw her trying to climb over a wall to get in the house another way and they helped her - I forget how, exactly. She said he was very nice and cool.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 1, 2022 3:49 AM |
I hope Zahara gets away from Angelina enough to have her own life. I'm afraid Maddox and Pax are lost causes.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 1, 2022 3:51 AM |
[quote]She seems like the nicest of Ange & Brad’s children. I think she will end up graduating and hopefully lead a happy life out of the chaos.
You can just tell by looking at her that she seems like a good kid.
[quote]Meaning Vivienne and Knox, but probably Shiloh, too. Hopefully Zahara as well.
I assumed they meant the ones that were under 18. We know how Maddox feels about him from his own mouth and Pax is 18 and generally avoids the spotlight.
If you believe the rags, the two oldest are the ones that seem to avoid him and Zahara could take or leave but she was usually lumped in with the younger kids.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 1, 2022 3:51 AM |
Too bad the kids had their home broken up. Brangelina seemed so committed to having kids together and often waxed philosophical about the importance of family life and how much their kids wanted them to get married. Now, it's just visitation and growing apart. Nothing deep after all.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 1, 2022 4:16 AM |
His bio kids are his actual kids so that makes sense. I'll bet he has deep regrets over ever leaving Jen.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 1, 2022 6:03 AM |
I'd chase after him, but being Mrs. Cheryl Pitt doesn't sound right.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 1, 2022 5:09 PM |
At least your name isn't Peach or Cherry r15!
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 3, 2022 12:20 AM |
OP- Does this same source also reveal how Brad Pitt's COCK sucking is?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 5, 2022 3:16 AM |
Twitter thinks he's a deadbeat.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 5, 2022 3:54 AM |
^^^ That's the Angelina Jolie squad of Character Assassins. LOL! Not sure if they made the Bullet Train or got left at the station.
How did she get such insane, diehard fans? Is it the tats or that she's a cutter? Something has bonded these weird fans to her.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 5, 2022 4:34 AM |
They also belive he's gotten a facelift.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 5, 2022 4:45 AM |
[quote] They also belive he's gotten a facelift.
Brad Pitt is a plastic surgery.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 5, 2022 4:54 AM |
You guys are such cunts.
No one here has any idea what his relationship is with his kids.
And even if it weren’t optimal, why would you rally behind the idea that he cannot make it work out with his children?
Speaking from the POV of a person who had a REALLY shitty relationship with her stepfather, I could only wish that he would try to rectify things with me, as a decent person would.
My stepfather never will.
Why do you guys want to deny this family healing and closure, as well as an opportunity to make things better?
All we ever want as kids, is to know that our parents actually loved us and cared about us.
Sometimes, we don’t get that affiliation early on for reasons that are 100% on the shoulders of the adults in our lives, most certainly. However, if they attempt to reach out, make amends, and sincerely show remorse for their wrongdoings, sometimes, we should appreciate our parents for being genuinely remorseful, and we should consider hearing them out, as they try to tell us they wish they could have done better with us, but couldn’t, for reasons that we may not be capable of understanding, until decades later.
It’s not OK to turn kids against their parents forever, especially when parents genuinely regret their actions and seek to change. Trust me. This much is true.
What a horrible campaign of apartheid we witnesses in these posts, as a father perhaps attempts to do right by his family that he most probably truly loves.
Shame on on all of you.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 5, 2022 5:40 AM |
r23 = Brad's custody lawyer. We're not the one that you need to convince.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 5, 2022 3:02 PM |
I dont see anything wrong with his response in the video above. I got the impression he doesnt want to talk about his kids to a tabloid journalist and wants to keep their lives more private. Which he cannot do with that cunt of a mother they have.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 5, 2022 8:33 PM |
Brad looks like he wants to say something about Zahara getting into Spelman but is stopping himself. He doesn't look like he just found out about it from the reporter.
Maybe it's all his idea, I don't know, but lately it seems pretty clear that he does see his kids but either won't go out in public with them or isn't allowed to. The kids may have asked him not to, but I'd bet it's Angelina. She wants the pap strolls with her kids all to herself, and wants to be able to plant articles in the media that make it sound like the kids won't see him.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 5, 2022 8:40 PM |
Joans Rivers used to joke that one day he would stop smoking pot and ask "Who the fuck are all these kids?"
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 5, 2022 8:41 PM |
[quote]Twitter thinks he's a deadbeat.
Twitter is full of a lot of people who make their money by stirring up drama. We all know full well he's not a "deadbeat." No deadbeat dad spends millions to try to get partial custody of their kids, and no, not even because they think it would be good PR. If he was doing it for PR, he would have kept it up for a year or two to give the impression he cared, then quietly dropped it.
In a few years the new crop of little kids who use social media for attention and money will be going after Angelina as the "new Mia Farrow" who didn't care about her kids enough and "we kept telling you but you all missed it."
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 5, 2022 8:48 PM |
Who thought that PR plant piece was going to help in any way?
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 5, 2022 8:50 PM |
Why does the Puerto Rico plant manufacture?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 5, 2022 8:55 PM |
Why do you all think he's a great dad because he has lunch with some of his kids when he happens to be in their general area?
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 5, 2022 9:33 PM |
Because he was the one always disciplining them, trying to get them to finish school and have a more normal productive life. Angelina kept letting them do whatever they wanted, dragging them around the world and wouldnt let them visit Brad's parents on holidays.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 5, 2022 9:52 PM |
R32, how is he doing all those things if he only sees them for lunch when he happens to be in the area?
I don't like either of them but this really seems like one of those situations where the mom is doing all the actual parenting while the dad takes the kid on the weekend and on an occasional vacation and gets all the props.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 5, 2022 10:04 PM |
Not sure where the "only sees them for lunch" thing was from, since I thought he was fighting Angelina for 50/50 custody the last few years. Was that finally settled yet or is it still ongoing?
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 5, 2022 10:12 PM |
Ongoing, R34, even as the kids reach legal maturity.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 5, 2022 10:13 PM |
I love the idiots calling him a deadbeat dad and a drunk. Excuse me, but Id drink to if I were married to a heroin addict. (they have no memory of what AJ is REALLY like, and all the tabloid fodder she was for decades before Brad)
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 5, 2022 10:20 PM |
R34, the lunch thing is in the article. The whole article reads like "he's enjoying life and sees some of his kids once in a while".
R36, like I said above, I don't like either of them but she seems to have settled and he seems to have gone off the rails a little in the last decade.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 5, 2022 11:08 PM |
Ah ok, my understanding was: Brad is still trying to get partial custody of them from Angelina, that he doesnt have 50/50 custody at the moment so sees them only when she brings them around. And that she was dragging it out so the kids turn 18 before he can get it. Not sure if the older ones want anything to do with him.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 5, 2022 11:53 PM |
She seems to have settled?? When??? The older ones aren't his kids anyway. His poor family. Having grandchildren from that nasty woman.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 6, 2022 12:04 AM |
R39, she's the one taking the older ones to college visits. I haven't heard too much insanity from her in a while. What craziness has she done in the last couple years not related to the marriage drama in which Pitt played an equal part?
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 6, 2022 12:08 AM |
R40, you really haven't been paying attention. It's just too long to go into.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 6, 2022 12:09 AM |
^^^ LOL! What does that mean, R42.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 6, 2022 12:25 AM |
R43, it means that that answer is one people give when they actually have nothing. "Oh, I could give you a million answers but, ya know, just not right now." Sure.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 6, 2022 12:38 AM |
[Quote]What craziness has she done in the last couple years not related to the marriage drama in which Pitt played an equal part?
So far... dragging out the custody case, keeping the kids away from Brad, selling her shares of the wine company they owned together to a Russian oligarch without telling him
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 6, 2022 12:56 AM |
That is no kind of gossip scoop OP, sounds like People magazine type PR
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 6, 2022 1:04 AM |
[quote]wow! Zahara going to Spelman! Really happy for her.
Guess she was too uppity for Hillman.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 6, 2022 1:09 AM |
R45, like I said, anything having to do with Pitt and the divorce is a two way street. They're both acting like assholes like almost every divorcing couple. She hasn't done any of her usual craziness in years at this point.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 6, 2022 2:19 AM |
[quote]this really seems like one of those situations where the mom is doing all the actual parenting while the dad takes the kid on the weekend and on an occasional vacation and gets all the props.
What props? He's been vilified in the media for years. One article comes out that tentatively mentions he sees his kids, despite Angelina trying everything to keep them away from him permanently, and you have a meltdown about how he's a deadbeat dad who doesn't even love his own kids.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 6, 2022 5:59 AM |
r37, he doesn't "just see his kids when he happens to be in town." Just a week or two ago he was caught by paps in Rome, having flown there to see his kids because that's where Angelina had dragged them this time.
I don't really subscribe to the whole thing about people from LSA coming here to be assholes, but you really, really sound like someone from LSA coming over here to bitch at us because this forum doesn't have the same opinion of Brad Pitt that your forum does.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 6, 2022 6:05 AM |
Jolie has proven what kind of person she is via this divorce and child custody battle. She is a POS.
Deliberately trying to break the bonds between a parent and child for an extended period of time and then using that for PR purposes is sick and evil. A decent mother would have tried to heal any teenage son-father conflict asap. Because a decent mother would understand how those broken bonds would also hurt the child even if she hated the other parent.
Selling the business and home which HE built up and loves into a successful business (with only an initial outlay from you and nothing after) to the one person you know HE refused to sell to because the guy was a Russian Oligarch who gobbles up smaller companies and destroys them and who has left a trail of dead bodies in his wake as he steals their trademarks is as low as you can go for an ex.
She is poison. Which fits in perfectly with a narcissistic borderline personality. You can add sociopath to that now.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 6, 2022 1:41 PM |
R19, it feels like those are twitter bots who gets paid to smear a particular person similar to Johnny depp and Amber heard.
basically Angelina stans who talked more about Brad than Angelina.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 6, 2022 1:54 PM |
So the anti-Pitt posters here are from LSA and the anti-Jolie posters are from FemaleFirst?
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 6, 2022 2:35 PM |
Wow, FemaleFirst is still a thing. Their forums look like they've been wiped, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 6, 2022 2:38 PM |
r54 I think a lot of them have come here, unfortunately. Hence, the recent uptick in Pitt-Jolie threads.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 6, 2022 2:59 PM |
Nah, Female First is barely a thing anymore.
LSA is though. They're an odd set of posters there.
I wonder how they'd feel if they really understood it was Pitt who insisted on going through with the adoption of their Ethiopian born daughter while Jolie considered backing out cause they were told she might have HIV. She was worried it might infect Maddox. It was Pitt who said No to backing out, that if they couldn't help her with all their resources then who could. This is what she said in an interview not realizing what it said about her. Pitt then sought out medical advice how to handle it.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 6, 2022 3:46 PM |
From ONTD as well I’m sure.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 6, 2022 6:53 PM |
I am shocked he never dated Kate Hudson. She is so his type, complete with Hollywood pedigree and dysfunctional parental relationship. I think she even put feelers out after his separation.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 26, 2022 5:16 PM |
[quote] Brad Pitt Pantocrator.
Pittgod.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 26, 2022 6:29 PM |
For whatever this personal messiness, he seems to have his head on (more or less) straight. He's smart not to talk about his kids. They're minors, not public figures and probably the best thing for them is to be left alone to grow up, hopefully go to college and leave Angelina. Besides, most kids that age think their dad is weird & annoying. The asian kids will probably always hate him and side with Big Momma, but hopefully the others will come around in time.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 28, 2022 12:30 PM |
Shiloh is going to be a gorgeous woman one day. I bet she will be an actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 28, 2022 12:43 PM |
[quote]she even put feelers out
Pics please.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 28, 2022 12:48 PM |
Do these kids have friends? Does AJ? Shiloh and AJ going to a concert together = not cool
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 10, 2022 10:10 AM |
Sad to say, but Brad is starting to lose the plot. The childish outfits, the sculptors, the high end genderless skincare line and now the Emily R. rumors. So much PR.
The Emily R. stuff sounds fake, fake, fake.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 26, 2022 4:02 PM |
you think a boozed addict and weed addict is capable of running a business? LOL
do you even know what it is like to grow up with a father who is an addict and is an asshole to the max when he uses ?
these kids are fucked for life.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 26, 2022 4:57 PM |
Weed addict? Come on now.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 26, 2022 5:29 PM |
I can understand why he wouldn't talk about his kids in public or about his relationship with them. Angelina has shown herself to be both irrational and aggressive. And volatile. The least little thing he might say could be blown all out of context and she'd go for the jugular. She and Brad were together a long time. 11-12 years? If he were a drunk and a weed head there is no way she would have stayed that long.
I think he went through a tough period with her because she would not settle down and he was concerned with the kids. They started arguing a lot and he drank. He wanted some stability in their lives. Friends, school, a place to call home. Normalcy. She was practically rootless. When she wanted to start bring the kids to refugee camps he said hell no, because they were too young.
Personally, I will never forgive her for setting the kids against him. Maddox is a separate issue. He has always been unnaturally close to her and probably always resented Brad. And Pax is probably easily led. In fact, Maddox tried to compete with Brad for the attention of the other kids trying to divide them and Angelina supported Maddox. Angelina is rather adolescent emotionally.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 26, 2022 6:03 PM |
After his experience with Angelina, I’m surprised he hasn’t quit on women forever. He’s 58.
Come to the dark side, Brad.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 26, 2022 6:54 PM |
R51 not to mention her own issues with her own father who she would be nothing without. That's telling as well
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 26, 2022 9:00 PM |
[quote] Personally, I will never forgive her for setting the kids against him.
Hilarious. Some of youse are taking this much too personal. It's strictly business my dear.
Does anyone even remember that it was the pilot of the aircraft, not Jolie, who reported Pitt's violent outburst? He scared a pilot for fuck's sake but it's Jolie who is turning his kids against him? My problem with Jolie is that she didn't smash a champagne bottle over his empty skull and threaten to pin his face to his ass if he ever came after her or the kids again.
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 26, 2022 9:30 PM |
so many demented loons in this thread as if they knew what the fuck really went on.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 26, 2022 9:34 PM |
He's supposedly dating Emily Ratajowski now. She looks a bit like Jolie.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 27, 2022 2:16 AM |
Hes not dating anyone. Have you learned nothing in the past few years ? How many people has he been linked to that turn out to be baseless rumors in the end ? Its nothing but pr...believe me...
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 27, 2022 2:28 AM |
Brad needs to have another kid. Then all the other children will fall back in line since there'd be a new heir in town.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 27, 2022 3:00 AM |
The Emily Ratajowski stuff seems so pr planted. By either his team or hers.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 27, 2022 4:15 AM |
[quote] Does anyone even remember that it was the pilot of the aircraft, not Jolie, who reported Pitt's violent outburst?
Are you from Kaiser or one of those Angelina Jolie fan sites. Always making up shit. We have NO information as to who reported anything.
In fact, there was no report of any "violent outburst" at all. It seems the person who "reported" anything was Jolie herself. The airport issued a statement at the time that there was no report of any incident. The FBI was not brought into this until later and if a pilot had reported it that would have been directly to the FAA and the FBI immediately. Also the airport where they refueled in Minnesota would have been notified by the pilot if there had been any incident aboard the plane and that airport issued a statement denying all the crazy rumors going around at the time.
It's always been Jolie. We know that because no one who investigated this case - 2 agencies perfectly qualified to investigate such things and interview anyone who might have been within a ten mile radius - concluded that nothing happened that was illegal or abusive and both declined to open up case files for further action. In other words Jolie has been exaggerating, coloring information, selectively omitting her own actions and basically lying since day one. And she is hating it that no one - not the FBI, not child services, not the therapists, not the child psychologists, not the judge, not the Industry who knows both of these people. NO ONE has believed her. I wonder how many of her children actually contradicted what she claims happened before she was able to alienate them or intimidate them.
That's what her whole suing the FBI to get investigative files - absolutely and for good reason exempt form FOIA requests - has been about - to get those statements by witnesses, most importantly their children.
The FBI closed its case with a report that no crime had been committed and if there had been a "violent outburst" directed at anyone then that would have been a crime.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 27, 2022 5:58 AM |
[quote] The Emily Ratajowski stuff seems so pr planted. By either his team or hers.
Why would Brad Pitt, of all people, need to make up or plant stories about being desirable to women? That's laughable.
Emily Ratface is an attention seeking ho. She must have a contract with the Daily Mail because she is in their celeb section EVERY SINGLE DAY for years now. I thought I never saw someone as thirsty as she is but someone told me she was great friends with Kim Kardashian and then it all clicked.
Pitt was not even in the country when she has allegedly been seen with him. Even days she was quoted as her acknowledging he was with her. Just a tiny bit of goggling would have turned that up.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 27, 2022 6:04 AM |
[quote]Does anyone even remember that it was the pilot of the aircraft, not Jolie, who reported Pitt's violent outburst?
It was an anonymous call that came from the plane during the flight.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 27, 2022 6:04 AM |
R78, the same situation happened with ewan mcgregor were his kids in his previous marriage stop talking to him but they fall back in line as soon as he got a baby with his current wife.
Emily also has a son ….
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 27, 2022 6:10 AM |
You are citing US Magazine as a legitimate source?
Could you ask them when Jennifer Aniston is having her triplets with Pitt?
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 27, 2022 6:11 AM |
[quote]. The FBI closed its case with a report that no crime had been committed and if there had been a "violent outburst" directed at anyone then that would have been a crime.
Wrong. The decision not to prosecute is not the same as "no crime has been committed". That is for the Grand Jury and courts to decide. Jolie wanted to know why Pitt wasn't charged for assault after the investigator filed documents of probable cause. What Jolie and most people don't know is that the Justice Department prosecutes only a small fraction of defendants EVEN IF THE VAST MAJORITY HAVE COMMITTED A FEDERAL OFFENSE:
Ultimately, prosecutors must believe they can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt — a burden that far exceeds mere probable cause. Additionally, in determining whether to bring a case, federal prosecutors must separately weigh other considerations that include not only the “interest of any victims” but also factors that have nothing to do with victims, like the deterrent effect of a conviction and federal law enforcement priorities. Often the difference between pursuing a case or shutting it down is simply a matter of resources. The Justice Department cannot prosecute more than a small fraction of potential defendants, even if the vast majority of them have committed a federal offense.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 27, 2022 2:27 PM |
Ratawhatever is gorgeous but seems dumb and venal. After trump was elected, she spoke out in concern and outrage...... over the " slut shaming" of vairst letty. Yes, that's what she was upset about.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 27, 2022 2:49 PM |
r83 Exactly, like Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Brad needs to find some chick in her 30s, whether it's this Emily woman or someone else, and knock her up.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 27, 2022 2:55 PM |
r85, there were no charges because the allegations had not been substantiated.
That's what people mean when they say the FBI did not find any evidence of abuse. Pitt was alleged to have abused Jolie and the kids (or a kid) and the FBI found no substantiation of those allegations.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 27, 2022 2:58 PM |
[quote]You are citing US Magazine as a legitimate source?
It's a source that confirms what YOU said, that we don't know who reported the incident to the authorities. The article is right, the phone call reporting it was anonymous.
Why is that a problem for you?
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 27, 2022 3:04 PM |
R88. You did not read the post which is referring to the Justice Department. Your article refers to the L.A County Family and Child Services. I was a teacher and automatically a mandated reporter for abuse and I'm not surprised they didn't do anything beyond a cursory "investigation". That said I don't think Pitt is a child abuser but he's a fucked up alcoholic who can be abusive. Does this really need explaining?
Once again, the Justice Department only prosecutes a small fraction of defendants even if the vast majority have committed a federal offense.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 27, 2022 3:15 PM |
[quote]Does this really need explaining?
No one asked you to explain anything.
[quote]Once again, the Justice Department only prosecutes a small fraction of defendants even if the vast majority have committed a federal offense.
Thoroughly irrelevant and notably unsourced.
The person you quoted said "The FBI closed its case with a report that no crime had been committed" and I was linking to a news report that explicitly said an FBI source told NBC that the allegations against Pitt were not substantiated, which confirms what the person you quoted said.
I don't know what you're talking about re: the Justice Dept. and I genuinely do not care. The allegations were first reported to the L.A. County Dept. of Children and Family Services, who then notified both the LAPD and FBI.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 27, 2022 3:24 PM |
[quote]The person you quoted said "The FBI closed its case with a report that no crime had been committed" and I was linking to a news report that explicitly said an FBI source told NBC that the allegations against Pitt were not substantiated, which confirms what the person you quoted said.
I didn't say the FBI said no crime had been committed, you said that. I said the Justice Department, which the FBI is the principle investigative arm of, said they are not prosecuting. THEY DID NOT SAY NO CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED. Where in your source does it say otherwise? Read your own articles for fuck's sake.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 27, 2022 3:44 PM |
r92, learn to follow a fucking conversation.
I did not say "The FBI closed its case with a report that no crime had been committed." Someone else did. You quoted them, and I responded.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 27, 2022 3:46 PM |
[quote] Why would Brad Pitt, of all people, need to make up or plant stories about being desirable to women? That's laughable.
It’s really not. It’s also not about him being desirable. Brad is not above the PR stuff. He’s also 58 years old now; not the same as he was 20-30 years ago. This reads very much like DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid. A long drawn out, ‘they’re talking, ‘they hung out, but not in a relationship, yet’ though no evidence. Brad had a similar story a year ago about meeting an actress at the Oscars who he was supposedly talking to. She came out and said she never met him. So it leads me believe the plants are on his side. You have to naive to think all these celebrities don’t carefully cultivate a certain narrative through the media. Not a fan of Emily, but she’s well known in the new celebrity hierarchy of social media influencers.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 27, 2022 3:51 PM |
Honestly, I think the occasional rumor about Pitt dating someone is coming from tabloids inventing stories. Pitt has good PR, and they wouldn't plant a rumor that was easily debunked, let alone one that would make Pitt look bad the second it was revealed to not be true.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 27, 2022 3:53 PM |
[quote] That's what people mean when they say the FBI did not find any evidence of abuse. Pitt was alleged to have abused Jolie and the kids (or a kid) and the FBI found no substantiation of those allegations.
WRONG. Can't you follow a conversation?
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 27, 2022 3:57 PM |
R95, I disagree. Tabloids aren’t checking for these people like they used to. Now they are being paid to photograph them, aka the Hadids, Ratajowski etc... Social Media changed everything, but also people like Brad, Clooney, Roberts are aging out. I wouldn’t be surprised if he buckled and joins Instagram like Aniston and Jolie did. Brad is probably seeing someone or dating around, but a huge part of his image was his high profile relationships. So it’s on brand to plant stories like the Emily one. I really hope he learned his lesson because he always had to be with a high profile actress and we know how it all turned out.
About being easily debunked, mainly people are gullible and will buy whatever is written, hook line and sinker.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 27, 2022 4:19 PM |
Like you said, though, the woman he supposedly met at the Oscars said she'd never met him. There was also that professor he was supposedly dating who had actually only met him once when he visited her lab. That really made Pitt look bad, because she trolled the media for a while after the rumors started. After that experience, I just don't think that Pitt's PR would be so clumsy as to plant more items about women that Pitt is actually not involved with at all.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 27, 2022 4:43 PM |
[quote] he decision not to prosecute is not the same as "no crime has been committed". That is for the Grand Jury and courts to decide. Jolie wanted to know why Pitt wasn't charged for assault after the investigator filed documents of probable cause. What Jolie and most people don't know is that the Justice Department prosecutes only a small fraction of defendants EVEN IF THE VAST MAJORITY HAVE COMMITTED A FEDERAL OFFENSE
The initial step before anything goes forward is that there is sufficient Probable Cause to go to the GJ or to a judge with that and seek charges. Drafting up a PC statement does not mean there actually is PC and that it will get approved by the prosecutors who make that final decision to open a case on it and proceed to seek charges. FBI agents do not make the decision that PC exists or not.
I have worked with the FBI and DOJ for over 30 years and they do not ever overlook or "pass" on Domestic Violence cases. In fact, their guidelines make it near impossible to nolle (not charge) cases where there is credible evidence of domestic violence. If for no other reason than the fact these were big names, the FBI thoroughly investigated this case and interviewed numerous witnesses. The fact that they decided there was not credible or sufficient evidence to proceed even at this initial level tells anyone with experience in this that they either had witnesses or other information that contradicted Jolie's allegations (maybe even from the children) or that she was simply so not credible that they weren't willing to base charges on her word.
The cases that don't get charged are usually something entirely different and usually minor offenses. Often the person is facing other charges, sometimes at local jurisdictions, and the FBI defers to them. Overlooking violent offenses, especially domestic violence, is a no-no with the feds since the 1990s.
If there is any truth, and we do not know that, the initial complaint was a phone call from the plane - where is that officially documented BTW? - then that tells you it was not from the pilot. The pilot would not be making a "phone call" from the plane. Just more evidence it was Jolie herself or someone at her direction.
As someone said upthread it seems that someone called child services once in LA and that got referred to LA police who then referred it to the FBI because the alleged conduct was in air space. Who else would have leaked that info to the media except Jolie or her people? You think Brad was leaking that kind of gossip? About himself?
More and more it is becoming clear that from day one Jolie wanted Brad arrested. And that she was furious the FBI did not charge him. As she became furious at all the other people who concluded she was not credible and that she has no idea what a crime is. She has had to content herself with trying and failing to destroy his reputation and career. Oh yea and destroying his relationship with his kids.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 27, 2022 5:41 PM |
[quote] I have worked with the FBI and DOJ for over 30 years and they do not ever overlook or "pass" on Domestic Violence cases. If for no other reason than the fact these were big names, the FBI thoroughly investigated this case and interviewed numerous witnesses. The fact that they decided there was not credible or sufficient evidence to proceed even at this initial level tells anyone with experience in this that they either had witnesses or other information that contradicted Jolie's allegations (maybe even from the children) or that she was simply so not credible that they weren't willing to base charges on her word.
I love how biased posters suddenly become experts in the field. So now you claim to have worked with the DOJ for 30 years yet still insist that a decision not to prosecute means no crime was committed and they never pass on domestic violence cases? You really want us to believe that the DOJ investigates thoroughly every domestic violence case because the F.B.I just loves mucking around with battling spouses-- forget terrorism and organized crime, lets spend a year building a case against some opioid addict who beats his girlfriend!
Most likely the DOJ didn't prosecute this case for the same reason they don't prosecute cases they are not confident they can win at trial, and yes I know most cases are plea bargained. The Feds have a 99% conviction rate which is impossible to achieve if they took every DV case that comes down the chute.
Don't tell me they are aggressively pursuing all domestic violence cases, and don't tell me you know it was because either the evidence wasn't there or Jolie wasn't credible. You don't know shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 27, 2022 9:59 PM |
Emily Ratawhatever is now claiming to be bi. The bi announcements from women linked only to men have become an embarrassing cliche
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 11, 2022 6:21 AM |
