Last July, during the Wimbledon final against Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and Serbian Novak Djokovic, there was one person who was able to eclipse the game and the rest of the illustrious guests, including the Princes of Wales or King Philip VI. That person was Brad Pitt, whose spectacular performance at the age of 59 attracted attention, goals and comments on social networks. This isn't new either. The actor, winner of an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and one of the highest paid in the industry, has also been voted the sexiest man in the world by People magazine twice (the first time in 1995). , after Legends of Passion and the second, in 2000, after Fight Club). His acting talent in major films is accompanied by a wonderful physique that lies halfway between the old and glamorous Hollywood and the new archetype of tough but sensitive masculinity. Today, Monday, December 18th, he turns 60.
His talent and his physique are usually the two most common comments when Brad Pitt's name is mentioned. Afterwards, her very famous (and public) sentimental history is usually discussed – Juliette Lewis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie – although little is mentioned about the darker aspects of her life, almost as if her career, her fame or… simply the name Brad Pitt ensures that no problem will ever come to his attention: not even his complex relationship with Harvey Weinstein; nor the bitter divorce from Jolie, who currently has joint custody of all her children; nor the accusation from one of his descendants, Pax, that he was “a terrible and despicable person.” Not only is Brad Pitt a pop culture icon, he's also a damage control expert.
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Paltrow, Jolie and Pitt against Weinstein
In 2022, Gwyneth Paltrow gave an interview to the New York Times in which she revealed details about her relationship with Harvey Weinstein – the actress was one of his, according to Kantor and Twohey, the reporters who uncovered the producer's story of abuse and sexual misconduct Main sources that pull the thread in the investigation. The interpreter explained that the producer molested her in his Beverly Hills hotel when she was just 22 years old and tried to abuse her. “I was a girl, I was petrified,” she said in the interview. “I was very shocked by everything and had just agreed to do two more films with him,” she explained. Weinstein then asked him not to say anything about the incident. But she told her then-partner Brad Pitt, “If you ever make her uncomfortable again, I will kill you,” the actor told the producer after pushing him against a wall, Paltrow said and later confirmed. Pitt. “I just wanted to make sure nothing else happened to him because I wanted to do two more films with Weinstein,” the actor confessed in another interview, concluding by showing his support for the #MeToo movement that the most important thing about the All of this is due to “the dynamic between men and women in the workplace being realigned.”
Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt at the premiere of the film “The Devil's Shadow” in 1997. Kevin.Mazur (WireImage)
Despite knowing all this, Brad Pitt worked on the 2009 film “Inglourious Basterds,” directed by Quentin Tarantino and co-produced by the Weinstein Company. Later, in 2012, the same production company was responsible for distributing the film Kill Them Softly, which starred (and produced) Pitt. In an interview with The Guardian in 2021, Angelina Jolie revealed that she worked with Weinstein in the 1998 film Playing with Heart. Jolie was 21 years old and confessed that she had to “escape” from the hotel room where she was invited by the producer: “I warned people about him. I remember telling Jonny [Jonny Lee Miller], my first husband, to spread the message: Don't let girls be alone with him. They asked me to be on The Aviator, but I said no because he was involved. I never interacted or worked with him again. “It was hard for me when Brad did it.” The interpreter, who dated Brad Pitt for 12 years, said she felt the actor had “minimized” her experience and that they had a heated argument when he returned to Weinstein: “It hurt me a lot.”
In addition to his work as an actor, Brad Pitt has developed an excellent reputation as a producer in recent years in the industry that made him famous. In 2002, he founded the production company Plan B with his then-wife Jennifer Aniston and Brad Gray, the former CEO of Paramount Pictures. In 2006, he became the sole owner of the company. Although its first project was Troy (2004), Plan B has recently turned to producing films of a political nature. Curiously, one of his latest projects in 2022 was to co-produce the film She Said, based on the 2019 book by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, in which they reported on their investigative work for the New York Times, which exposed the Weinstein -History revealed.
Pitt vs. Jolie
After 12 years of relationship and six children together, the Brangelina idyll ended in 2016. It was the actress who, in addition to seeking custody of her six children, also filed for divorce and asserted the classic “irreconcilable differences.” At that time, an almost rumor-like story came to light about an incident on a private plane in which Pitt became violent. In September of that year, the actors agreed that Angelina Jolie would receive “temporary” custody of their children. Since then, the ex-couple have been embroiled in a legal battle centered on their children (Jolie claims that Pitt abused two of her children on that private plane in 2016, grabbing and shaking them by the head) and also Château Miraval, a mansion and vineyard in the town of Correns in the heart of the French Riviera, part of which Jolie sold for $164 million without her ex-husband's consent.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Joile at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2008. Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images)
In February 2022, it was Pitt who sued Jolie over the sale of this property. According to the actor, both had agreed that they would never sell their share of the farm where they said “I do” in 2014 and the vineyard that surrounds it without first reaching an agreement with the other party. However, as The New York Times reported in October of the same year, Jolie actually tried to make this arrangement and sell her share to the actor, but in exchange for purchasing the property from him, Pitt wanted her to sign a confidentiality agreement in which she committed not to publicly discuss what happened on that plane in 2016. Jolie refused.
Since the actress began her divorce proceedings, Brad Pitt has made a mea culpa in various publications. In 2017, he spoke in GQ about his drinking problems and not drinking for six months: “I drank too much. “Alcohol became a problem,” admitted the interpreter, something that had already become clear since he had to undergo drug and alcohol tests in order to continue seeing his children. He talked about “weaknesses” and “shortcomings” and the desire to become a better man. “Unlike the other side, Brad has taken responsibility for everything he's done since day one,” Pitt's lawyer told Page Six, “but he won't confess to anything he didn't do.” personal attacks and misrepresentations.”
Brad Pitt will receive his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on February 9, 2020. Kevin Winter (Getty Images)
Of their six children, 18-year-old Zahara has freed herself from her father's last name and only responds to Jolie. Pax, 20, made headlines a few days ago when a message he posted on his private Instagram account to mark Father's Day 2020 was leaked, in which he accused Pitt of making the family's life “hell”: “Happy Father’s Day to this world-class idiot.” ! You have proven time and time again that you are a terrible and despicable human being. “You have no consideration or compassion for your four small children who are shaking in fear at your presence,” he wrote, referring to his siblings Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. “You will never understand the harm you have caused to my family because you cannot see it. You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant living hell. You can tell yourself and the world whatever you want, but one day the truth will come out.” Sources close to Brad Pitt responded to this harsh message by claiming that his children were suffering from “a perfect example of parental alienation.” While Jolie has been photographed with her children numerous times, Brad Pitt has not been seen publicly with them since the incident in 2016.
For his part, Pitt is committed to the work. Since 2016, he has appeared in eight films as an actor alone, including the one that won him his Oscar. In 2022, she joined the trend of many other celebrities and launched her own cosmetics brand Le Domaine and in 2023 her own gin brand The Gardener Gin. His love life also remains in the background, regardless of any scandals, although it is known that he has a stable relationship with jewelry designer Inés de Ramón. Hard work and a lot of discretion, his other great strategy.