Brad Pitt hit back last night as his team criticized his adopted son’s “depressing” smear campaign, which labeled the actor a “world-class asshole” and a “fucking terrible human being”.
Pax Jolie-Pitt, 19, called his father a “horrible and despicable human being” who leaves his four youngest children “trembling in fear” in an explosive rant he posted to Instagram for Father’s Day 2020.
Pax posted the broadside against Pitt in the Stories section of his personal Instagram account when he was 16, claiming that life with the Hollywood star was “constant hell,” revealed on Monday.
Now that the contents of the three-year-old post have been published, a member of Pitt’s inner circle revealed that the 59-year-old finds it “depressing” to see it dragged out.
The insider told The Sun: “It’s frustrating to see Brad being portrayed as some kind of ‘bad person’ when that’s far from true.”
The source added that Pitt has “great respect” for each of his children and it “speaks volumes” that he is choosing to maintain a “dignified silence” about the situation.
Pax Jolie-Pitt called his father a “horrible and despicable human being” who left his four youngest children “trembling with fear” in a rant on Father’s Day 2020. Pictured: Angelina Jolie and Pax Jolie-Pitt attending the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 2018
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are pictured with their children Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt at LAX Airport in Los Angeles, California in June 2014
Brad Pitt hit back last night as his team criticized his adopted son’s “depressing” smear campaign, which labeled the actor a “world-class asshole” and a “fucking terrible human being”. The explosive post from June 2020 is shown above
Angelina Jolie adopted Pax in 2007 from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He was three years old and was abandoned as a newborn by his heroin-addicted biological mother.
Pitt, Jolie’s then-husband, officially adopted him the following year.
When Pitt and Jolie, 48, separated in 2016, just two years after they married in a private ceremony in France, the children stayed with their mother while an altercation reportedly took place between eldest son Maddox and his father aboard a private jet had.
It’s now clear that the relationship between Pax and Pitt is also problematic, as the 19-year-old accuses his father of making his life “hell” in the extraordinary social media tirade.
“You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant living hell,” Pax wrote in the June 2020 post.
“You can tell yourself and the world whatever you want,” he added, “but the truth will come out one day.”
He then added sarcastically, “Happy Father’s Day, you fucking horrible human being.”
A source confirmed this week that the private account does indeed belong to Pax. “It’s the account he uses for friends – mainly friends from school.” “He never says much about his parents, keeps to himself, that was unusual.”
Pax did not say whether it was a specific event that triggered it or whether it was the culmination of years of tension.
In his post, Pax called his adoptive father “a world-class asshole” and added: “You continue to prove that you are a terrible and despicable human being.”
“You have no consideration or compassion for your four youngest children, who tremble in fear in your presence.
“You will never understand the harm you have caused to my family because you are incapable of doing so.”
Although Pax was the third child Jolie adopted after brother Maddox and sister Zahara, he is a year older than Zahara.
The four youngest children he claimed Pitt made her shake would be Zahara, now 18, and the couple’s three biological children, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Jolie and Pitt met in 2005 on the set of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” when he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. They insisted at the time that there had been no infidelity, but after a photo emerged of them on a beach in Kenya with Maddox, Aniston filed for divorce.
But their fairytale romance fell apart in 2016 and the couple, once known as “Brangelina,” have been embroiled in bitter battles ever since.
can reveal that in 2020, 19-year-old Pax Jolie-Pitt accused his father of making his life “hell” in an extraordinary tirade on social media. Pax Jolie-Pitt is pictured with Angelina Jolie in 2018
Brad Pitt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in February 2020 for Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood
Pax and father Brad are pictured in 2014 before Brad and Angie’s split. “So Happy Father’s Day you fucking horrible human being!!!” Pax wrote
Pax said in the rant that Brad left his four youngest children “shaking in fear.” All six of her children – Pax, 19, Maddox, 22, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 17, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15 – are pictured with Angie in 2018
Their divorce was finalized in 2019, and although Jolie initially had sole custody of the children, an agreement was negotiated in 2021 that allowed Pitt to have them 50 percent of the time.
But shortly afterwards it was revealed that John Ouderkirk, the judge in charge of the case, had close business relationships with Pitt’s lawyers.
As a result, he was removed from the case and custody was returned to Jolie, with Pitt only allowed “custody visits.”
Pitt was also investigated by the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services over child abuse allegations following an alleged altercation with Maddox on a private jet five days before Jolie’s divorce.
Maddox is said to have stood up for Jolie during an argument between his parents.
A source later told People that Pitt was drunk at the time, adding, “There was an argument between him and Angelina.”
“There was a parent-child dispute that was not handled properly and escalated more than it should have.”
Jolie told authorities that Pitt acted “like a monster” on the jet.
The former couple are pictured at Brie-Champniers airport in France boarding a private jet with their children in 2007 – a year before Jolie claims Pitt flew into a rage, grabbed her by the head, shook her and pushed her into the air punched the bathroom wall several times on a private jet before hitting the ceiling several times
In August 2016, after eleven years together, Brad and Angie shocked the world when they announced they were going their separate ways. They were seen in 2006
Pitt was subsequently acquitted of all charges and has since quit both alcohol and smoking cannabis. He was photographed at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in September 2016.
Although neither Pitt nor Jolie have ever spoken publicly about the incident, Jolie told Vogue in 2021 that she left Pitt for the “good” of her family.
She added: “It was the right decision.” I remain focused on her healing. Some have taken advantage of my silence and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds.
“In fact, they are six very courageous, very strong young people.”
The couple is still embroiled in a controversial $350 million battle over Chateau Miraval, the vineyard they bought in France. Jolie sold her half to a Stoli Group subsidiary after the plane accident because, her lawyers said, she was “uncomfortable” about being involved in the sale of alcohol.
In a filing this summer, she called her ex a “tyrant” who acted emotionally, irrationally and “ultimately illegally” over the vineyard. He accused her of orchestrating a “hostile takeover of the company.”
Pax remains close to his mother and was spotted with her in New York, where she was staying while creating her new Atelier Jolie line.
He has now graduated from high school – and decided to skip the graduation ceremony to avoid the paparazzi.
Earlier this year it was reported that he had become an artist, creating work under the pseudonym “Embtto” – but the Page Six story turned out to be a hoax.
Web has contacted representatives for Pitt and Jolie for comment.