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'Brangelina' no more: Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt

By The Wrap, TheWrap

September 20, 2016 at 9:05PM
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006 cruising on a motorbike while touring Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to arriving in Vietnam, the couple made a surprise visit to Cambodia where they visited a former Khmer Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attend the Cinema for Peace Gala ceremony at the Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin in 2012.
In July 2015, actress and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt walks with her son Maddox, left, as they visit Jan Mai Kaung refugee camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
In November 2011, actress Angelina Jolie signs her autograph upon arrival for the Japan premiere for Brad Pitt's latest film "Moneyball" in Tokyo.
American actress Angelina Jolie, left, and her adopted son Pax Thien leave a Vietnamese restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, after lunch in November 2011. At the time, Hollywood power couple Jolie and Brad Pitt and their six children were on a visit to Vietnam, where Pax was born.
In July 2008, U.S. actor Brad Pitt arrives at the Lenval Hospital in Nice, southern France, carrying his children Zahara, right, and Shiloh. Angelina Jolie checked into the Lenval Hospital in the south of France on last Tuesday, where she is expected to give birth to her twins, a hospital spokeswoman said.
In this May 2008 file, actors Brad Pitt, left, and Angelina Jolie arrive for the premiere of the film "Kung Fu Panda," during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France.
American actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive for the premiere of the film "Changeling" at the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
In 2007, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are photographed as they arrive at the screening of the movie "The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford" competing in the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
In 2007, Actress Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt arrive at the New York premiere of "A Mighty Heart" in New York..
In 2006, American movie star and UNHCR Ambassador Angelina Jolie with her daughter Zahara, and Brad Pitt, left, with Jolie's son Maddox, walk near the Gateway of India in Mumbai, India.
Brad Pitt, left, and Angelina Jolie arrive for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards in 2007.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie outside Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa., in 2006. The couple visited Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece for Pitt's birthday. Cara Armstrong, Fallingwater's curator of education, says Pitt said he wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college.
As John Smith (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) do a sexy tango, more of their secrets are uncovered in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," which was filmed in 2004 and released in 2005.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006 cruising on a motorbike while touring Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to arriving in Vietnam, the couple made a surprise visit to Cambodia where they visited a former Khmer Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum. (Colleen Kelly — ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after just over two years of marriage.

An attorney for Jolie, Robert Offer, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that she has filed for the dissolution of the marriage. Offer said the decision was made "for the health of the family."

Jolie listed their official date of separation as Sept. 15, per TMZ. She is asking for physical custody of the couple's six children and will ask that Pitt receive visitation rights. Pitt officially adopted three of Jolie's children, while Jolie gave birth to three more children of their own over the course of their relationship.

"Brangelina," as they were dubbed by the media, met on the set of the film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," in which they played rival assassins who also happen to be married to each other. There was widespread speculation at the time that their relationship began onset and that Pitt divorced Jennifer Aniston so he could be with Jolie.

"I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well being of our kids," Pitt said in a statement to People. "I kindly ask the press to give them the space they deserve during this challenging time."

They were officially married in a private ceremony at a French chateau in August 2014. In 2015, they co-starred in the drama "By the Sea," which followed a married couple trying to repair their marriage during a stay at a hotel in 1970's France.

With their combined star power, Pitt and Jolie have long been considered one of Hollywood's most powerful couples. Both have found success not only in front of the camera, but also behind it.

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Jolie found success as a director with such films as the 2014 biopic of World War II POW Louis Zamperini "Unbroken." She also directed, wrote and produced "By the Sea" under her married name of Angelina Jolie-Pitt.

Pitt, meanwhile, has become quite the successful producer through his Plan B Entertainment banner. Some of the films he has produced include "The Departed," "The Big Short," and "Selma." He is also an executive producer on the new Ryan Murphy FX series "Feud."

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. (Star Tribune file/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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