Break Ups World War Brange: temporary ceasefire Last Friday the situation was nuclear. Angelina Jolie had filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, requesting full custody of the children. Two days after it, news breaks that the precipitating incident was a dramatic argument on a private plane involving one of their children during which Brad was drunk. It By Lainey • Sep 30, 2016 03:13 pm
Break Ups World War Brange & Olivia Pope PEOPLE reported exclusively yesterday that Judy Smith, the real-life Olivia Pope, is consulting with Angelina Jolie as she negotiates the terms of her divorce from Brad Pitt. It’s been a quiet week for Angelina as Brad Pitt’s sources have presented his side to the public: Brad is sad By Lainey • Sep 30, 2016 11:08 am
Break Ups World War Brange: the magazines choose Brad Check out the cover of the new issue of US Weekly. If you only saw the headline “Her Plot To Destroy Brad”, would you have guessed it was US Weekly? I would have thought it was STAR Magazine. Or In TOUCH Weekly. Or Life & Style. But Brange has always By Lainey • Sep 28, 2016 11:31 am
Media Manipulation Justin Theroux on World War Brange Justin Theroux is currently on promotion for The Girl On The Train. A reporter from Business Insider (via PEOPLE) asked him about World War Brange and instead of being thrown out of the room, they actually got an answer: "As a child of divorce all I can say is By Lainey • Sep 27, 2016 02:37 pm
Break Ups Brad’s turn As you know, several celebrity weeklies missed the Brange breakup on their covers because Angelina Jolie decided to let the Emmys breathe before dropping the news that she filed for divorce. PEOPLE’s original cover last week was about Michael Strahan which, unfortunately for him, nobody gave a sh-t about. By Lainey • Sep 26, 2016 04:41 pm
Break Ups Brad’s PEOPLE appeal PEOPLE.com has new post up, yet another in favour of Brad Pitt, this time a character defence of Brad from a “family source". Basically the source is saying, and repeating, that Brad is an amazing father and would never want to hurt his children: "He is one By Lainey • Sep 23, 2016 02:09 pm
Break Ups Brad Pitt makes his moves It’s now been 24 hours since the allegations against Brad Pitt and what may have happened on that plane were reported. As of this writing (7am Friday) he has yet to release an official statement vehemently denying that he was drunk and may have gotten violent with his children. By Lainey • Sep 23, 2016 10:00 am
Brad Pitt Chelsea Handler and “15 different languages” Chelsea Handler has never liked Angelina Jolie. Google it. Chelsea Handler is also very good friends with Jennifer Aniston. So here’s Chelsea Handler giving her opinion, because we were all waiting for her opinion, on the breaking of Brange: Chelsea weighs in. #brangelina pic.twitter.com/mCZsP5AHIy— Chelsea (@Chelseashow) By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 05:15 pm
Break Ups Brad Pitt on hold Angelina Jolie filed for divorce on Monday citing last Thursday, September 15 as the date of separation, one day after Brad Pitt allegedly was a mess on a private plane. On Tuesday of this week, news broke that she was asking for sole physical custody of the children. At the By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 04:03 pm
Top Reads The Brad Pitt investigation As mentioned earlier, the LAPD denied that they were investigating Brad Pitt for an incident on a private plane last week during which he was allegedly drunk and verbally abusive. And then the reaction was, oh look, she’s a f-cking liar. But PEOPLE also corroborated the report. And PEOPLE By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 03:33 pm
Top Reads The allegations against Brad Pitt TMZ posted a story last night about Brad Pitt’s alleged behaviour on a private plane with Angelina Jolie and their kids that supposedly went down last week. He was allegedly “wasted” and was shouting and getting “physical”. TMZ says it happened last Wednesday, at 8pm, the night before the By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 12:54 pm
Break Ups Jennifer Aniston’s happiest day I mean, the cover of the NY Post today: Today's cover: Jennifer Aniston knew Brangelina would end one day https://t.co/JvMlGzXP0A pic.twitter.com/uwVam0Glr1— New York Post (@nypost) September 21, 2016 I laughed. It’s funny. It’s so f-cking bitchy which is probably why By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 12:59 pm
Break Ups Brange’s performative parenting I was asked last night why I thought Brange was so once in a lifetime, beyond the obvious: their looks, their matched mega-fame as individuals, the scandal that marked the inception of their relationship, and the internet. Also their family. The children. The Brange children were introduced to the world By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 11:48 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt’s PR As I reported yesterday, Angelina Jolie got the jump on Brad Pitt. She filed for divorce. Laura Wasser is repping her. And her side of the story about Brad Pitt’s alleged drinking and “anger issues” was posted on TMZ first, before noon ET, which meant that Brad had to By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 10:08 am
Media Manipulation Capitalising on the end of Brange As you know, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, due out November 23. That’s around US Thanksgiving. That’s a favourable movie release date. It means they have some hopes for it at the box office and, perhaps, for awards consideration. Allied is about two spies who By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 09:13 am
Break Ups Intro for September 21, 2016 Dear Gossips, Exactly a week ago today, I opened the blog on Vanity Fair’s Hollywood divorce piece featuring commentary from Laura Wasser about why celebrity splits get played out in the media. She claimed that, “Most of my clients, for better or for worse, are not interested in that By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 08:30 am
