Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of "child abuse" and has the support of her son Maddox in her new legal offensive for custody of his large family.
On March 12, the actress presented new evidence against her ex-husband and stated that both she and her children would be willing to offer "new evidence and testimonies that demonstrate domestic violence." And her eldest son would have already testified against her father. According to Us Weekly, "Maddox has already given adult testimony in the ongoing custody dispute and it wasn't very flattering to Brad."
Brad Pitt, 57, is "totally devastated" according to the US media upon learning of the new course of the legal battle, which puts the deteriorated relationship that the actor maintains with his children on the stand. Pax, Zahara, John, and the twins Knox and Vivienne live with Angelina Jolie and Maddox, who left to study at the University of Seoul in South Korea and would not have seen his father for about five years. According to sources close to him, the young man no longer uses the Pitt surname in informal contexts, and would be willing to legally change his last name, "although Angelina has told him that she prefers that he not do it."
The case against Pitt for child abuse would be reopened
It all goes back to the incident that froze relations between Brad Pitt and Maddox and most likely precipitated the divorce from Angelina Jolie. On September 14, 2016, on a flight between France and Los Angeles, Pitt allegedly physically and verbally assaulted his son Maddox as he came out to defend his mother and brothers when the actor, presumably under the influence of alcohol, became aggressive with his family. Just a few days later, the actress filed for divorce.
Although the actor was investigated by the FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Family and Children's Services and was acquitted for lack of evidence, the testimonies of his sons may reopen the case. Brad Pitt has confessed to the press that his alcohol addiction was one of the triggers for his divorce from the actress and that he is undergoing therapeutic treatment and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
However, Jolie continues to fight for full custody of her minor children and, according to court documents that have been leaked to The Blast portal, the five would be willing to add their testimonies to Maddox's to prevent Pitt from accessing 50% of the Legal custody.
Jolie-Pitt relationship timeline
What was at the time the power couple of Hollywood began their relationship in 2005 when Brad Pitt was still in a relationship with Jennifer Aniston. ? Does he follow? ng year, Brad Pitt legally adopted Angelina's children and the couple welcomed John, his first biological child. In 2007 they adopted another child and in 2008 they had twins, consolidating a large family that was formed before their marriage. They were together for eleven glorious years in which they monopolized all the covers, but they were only married for two: in 2012 they said yes and in 2014 they divorced, alleging "irreconcilable differences" about which little by little the details are being clarified.
The custody of their children is, from the beginning, the main injury between the two, and despite having reached an initial agreement, the judicial war is still open and the relationship between Pitt and Maddox is practically devastated: the young man himself would have given to understand the journalists who approached him in South Korea when he assured that "whatever has to be, will be" when asked if he was going to break ties with a father.
