Brad Pitt: March 2007 Archives

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt say they were 'stunned' when they found out that someone intended to kidnapped the newest edition to their family, Pax.

Life and Style Weekly is reporting that the Jolie-Pitt security detail finds the threat "credible and meticulously planned."

The news evidently shocked the beautiful couple.

"They're highly skilled operatives with little regard for human life," a security insider told the magazine.

"Information came out that leaders of the gang ordered their LA members to devise a plan to kidnap Pax before demanding a ransom of $100m — equal to the profit from a year of drug dealing — for his safe return.

"Brad and Angie would have a number of days to hand over the money or risk the boy's life."

Brad, 43, was left stunned when members of his security team revealed the plot.

"The life drained out of Brad when he heard that," a friend of the couple said.

"He was a wreck. He didn't want to tell Angie the extent of the threat, especially not until she returned stateside.

"But he had no choice. She needed to know so she could take the necessary precautions."

Angelina, 31, was left in tears when Brad told her about the awful plot.

"She sobbed that she'd die if anything happened to Pax."

A representative for Brad Pitt denied the story. But Brad is said to have increased security around his family.

"They have gone into total lockdown mode," the pal said.

"He's added manpower around their LA home and has told security he doesn't want Angie or the kids leaving the house without at least five security people."

But the added security doesn't appear to have set Angelina's mind at rest.

"She isn't sleeping and barely eats," the friend said.

"She doesn't let the kids out of her sight. She seems on the verge of a breakdown."

Scary stuff!  If US Weekly is correct then it might just be a big publicity stunt!

Angelina Jolie and her newly adopted son, Pax Thien Jolie, are en route to their home in the United States! 

The three-year-old Vietnamese boy has already had his first photo shoot.  The pictures that will appear in Hello! magazine show Pax playing by a swimming pool with sister Zahara and snuggled up in bed with five-year-old brother Maddox.

"He is a very serious, very sweet little boy. We are slowly beginning to build his trust and bond but it will feel complete only when we are all a family. You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings with new people and a new language. He is very strong. It will take him a while to realise he has a family; that his new life is permanent and it won't keep changing," Jolie told Hello!

Upon arriving in the US, Pax will meet his soon-to-be father Brad Pitt and his other sister Shiloh  for the first time. 

Angelina has spent the week in Vietnam where she adopted Pax.  She has come under scrutiny for 'fast tracking' the adoption process using her celebrity status, but adoption officials came to her defense saying she started the adoption process last summer.

I have come under fire for many things in my tenure as a writer.  I was once hit in the face while emceeing an event because someone thought I wrote that Anna Nicole Smith was an unfit mother (who is laughing now), among other 'hater' activities.

However, I never thought I would take a beating like I have for writing about someone I admire and look up to... that happened this week when I called Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's family a 'fleet.' 

Maybe it was a bad choice of words, but Brad Pitt even joked that he and Jolie planned to have their own 'soccer' team.  My apologies to anyone who I may have offended.  I love the Jolie-Pitt's.  I mean, after all, they are the most beautiful family on earth!

This week Angelina Jolie went to Vietnam to pick up her newest kid!  She has renamed the 3-year-old boy Pax Thien Jolie.  Pax will be the newest addition to the Jolie-Pitt's.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt already have three children together.  Jolie adopted Maddox and Zahara before meeting Pitt who later also adopted them both.  Jolie and Pitt also have on biological daughter, Shiloh.

Jolie went to Vietnam to pick up Pax herself, and currently she is the only parent listed on the adoption papers. 

Earlier in the week, the media speculated that Jolie had 'fast paced' her application since she was a celebrity and since she had hand-picked the child she wanted to adopt.

"In this case, things can move faster because she's a celebrity and she has already found a child," Vietnam's senior adoption official Vu Duc Long said last week.

As it turns out, however, that isn't the case.  US officials have confirmed that Angelina actually started this adoption procedure last summer.

"Throughout Ms Jolie's adoption process, she received no preferential treatment from the Vietnamese government or Adoptions From The Heart," said the statement by Heidi Gonzalez, the non-profit agency's Vietnam coordinator. 

"Contrary to earlier reports, her application was not fast-tracked," the statement read.

Reporters on the scene say that Jolie conforted the crying young boy when she arrived to take him back with her.  From what I hear it was really a breath-taking site as Angelina and her new son bonded for the first time.

That isn't the end of it though, Angelina has also confirmed that she will take some time off to stay home and focus on raising her family. 

She and Brad Pitt have recently relocated to New Orleans where they both say they will help to rebuild the struggling city.  Pitt is also expected to add his name as Pax's father when everything is finalized.

Several media outlets are reporting that Angelina Jolie hugged, played with and comforted the three year old boy before she adopted him.

Evidently the little tyke cried when Angelina came up, but she was able to turn that around quickly welcoming him to the Jolie-Pitt family.

The boy's caregiver said his favorite dishes included fried noodle and yoghurt and that he can count from 1 to 10 in English.

Angelina renamed the Vietnamese born boy Pax Thien Jolie.  Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcome Pax as their third adopted child.  Maddox and Zahara, of course, gained a sister (Jolie-Pitt's only biological child so far) Shiloh last year.

In about three months or so, it will be two boys and two girls for team Jolie-Pitt.  E! News is reporting that Angelina Jolie has picked out a Vietnamese baby boy to add to her "soccer team" in the making with boyfriend Brad Pitt (in his own words).

Just days after we first told you that Jolie had filed papers through a U.S. agency to adopt a child from the southeast Asian country, Vu Duc Long, director of Vietnam's International Adoption Agency, confirmed they have picked a boy.

A Vietnamese official announced Wednesday that Angelina Jolie is in the process of adopting a three- or four-year-old boy she chose to add to her burgeoning family during a recent trip to the Tam Binh orphanage.

Pitt will likely later apply for adoption rights as he did with Jolie's other adopted children, Maddox and Zahara.

Brad Pitt is totally one of the hottest people alive, as is his girlfriend Angelina Jolie... so it is only logical that Shiloh is just as freakin' gorgeous as her parents.

She and dad are spotted goofing around on his movie set in New Orleans.

Shiloh and dad were spotted with mom and sister Zahara taking a stoll and enjoying their new home town of New Orleans.

Have you ever seen a pretty group of people?!  Gorgeous!

It looks like the Jolie-Pitts are adding another youngster to the clan! 

A top Vietnamese official said on Friday that Angelina Jolie has filed papers through a U.S. adoption agency to adopt a child from their country.

"She just filed the papers this week," Vu Duc Long, the director of Vietnam's International Adoption Agency, told the Associated Press.

There was no official confirmation from the Jolie-Pitt camp.  Angelina evidently listed herself as a single parent in her paperwork.  That will likely be updated later to reflect Brad Pitt's position as adjunt daddy. 

Congrats to Jolie-Pitts!