Page Six: Angelina Jolie’s new lawyers were hired to ‘attack’ poor, poor Brad

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This month is only half-way through and already we’re knee-deep in Brangelina shenanigans. You know what started everything this month? It was Brad Pitt’s team running to TMZ to claim that Angelina Jolie’s warrior-mode bitchery had alienated her divorce lawyer Laura Wasser. Looking back on it now, I think Brad and his team knew that Angelina was tired of the status-quo pro-Brad leaking from his camp. Team Pitt knew that Angelina had added new lawyers to her team and they were freaking out, so they went to TMZ. For what it’s worth, I believed Jolie’s carefully worded denial – Wasser is still part of Jolie’s legal team, but Angelina felt like she needed some additional lawyers who specialize in bitter, acrimonious divorces and custody disputes. What’s funny is that Brad’s team is still trying to make it sound like… I don’t even know, that Bitchy Jolie Hired Bitchy Lawyers and Now Poor Brad Is So Overwhelmed. So overwhelmed that his team keeps running to every tabloid media outlet to talk sh-t about Jolie.

While Angelina Jolie has denied ditching her powerful divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, the “Maleficent” actress’ fiery new turn in her ugly divorce from Brad Pitt coincides with her beefing up her team with further fierce and formidable divorce attorneys.

Jolie’s aggressive [child support] filing states Joseph Mannis of top Beverly Hills family law firm LA Hersh Mannis LLP is on her team. His partners Neal Hersh and Judy Bogen (who now has her own firm) famously repped Kim Basinger in her bruising divorce from Alec Baldwin — which was rocked by the sensational leak of the “rude, thoughtless little pig” voicemail he left in 2007 for his then-11-year-old daughter, Ireland. Baldwin had accused Basinger and her lawyers of leaking the tape, which they denied.

Legal sources speculated — after a long period of relative peace between Jolie and Pitt as they put their public divorce on hold to discuss custody of their six children in front of a private judge — that Wasser may not have been onboard with Jolie’s decision to light a match under the proceedings. One source added, “So Jolie hired other lawyers who would attack Brad. This strategy doesn’t make sense. If Jolie went ahead, she must reveal her financial records.”

Other sources close to Jolie have explained that new “experts” were brought on to signal a “new phase” in the divorce. Jolie lawyers Wasser, DeJean, Mannis and Hersh didn’t respond to requests for comment. Reps for Pitt declined to comment.

[From Page Six]

Here’s my take, since I can’t stop giving my take on this years-long battle. My take is that at one point last year, Angelina probably hoped that they would be able to settle this quietly and somewhat peacefully for the sake of the kids. She held her tongue when Brad’s side sniped at her in the media over and over. She held her tongue during the Neri Oxman shenanigans. But I think what really opened her eyes was how Team Pitt made it sound like she was an alienating parent when she was following the temporary custodial arrangement she and Brad had worked out immediately following his drunken, abusive plane incident. Then all bets were off. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if she asked Wasser to push back on the mountain of bullsh-t Brad’s team was spinning and Wasser was like “take the long view, just let him say whatever.” And Angelina was like “no, I think I need to bring some additional people on this.”

Brad Pitt leaves The Metrograph Theatre after attending a screening of his Netflix movie 'War Machine'

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  1. Lala11_7 says:

    Yes…this is the “You ain’t been paying for 50% of the expenses for taking care of our kids…so I’ma need you to run me my money” phase…

    Happens in WAY too many divorce cases….unfortunately….

    • Coco for puffs says:

      Rim me my money, lol 💀. It is so sad though I live for the comments here. Brads team has been gutting Angie in the tabs for months and she never sunk low with them now suddenly the witch is hurting poor Brad. Now he’s back to saying she should think about the kids😉. He think he knows that is her weakness. What a terd.

    • Wasabi says:

      Now I imagine LA Jolie in a green sack dress, holding a glass of red in one hand, snipping with the other while dancing and singing to Riri’s BITCH BETTER HAS MY MONEY 😅

    • theplot says:

      Lala, that’s a nice story but Angie only last week filed for support. If she wanted money she could have filed two years ago. She didn’t because she wants the kids all to herself. After the judge nixed that idea recently, suddenly Ang is painting Brad as a deadbeat dad. Who is the liar here?

      • Maya says:

        Way to excuse Brad for not paying 50% of the children’s welfare.

        Man Brad supports are really reaching and what are they going to do when the full truth about their dear pretty boy gets exposed completely? Do you really think the children are going to stand by forever while their deadbeat father smears their beloved mother?

      • lingli says:

        @Maya – but you don’t *know* that he hasn’t paid 50% of the costs for his children.

        There is no child support arrangement in place – yet.

        His side claims he has paid $1.3 million over the last 2 years. No one knows what the Jolie-Pitt children’s budget is, so while it *may* be a judge decrees he should pay more, at this point *no one knows*.

        Even AJ didn’t say he hasn’t paid up: she/her lawyers deliberately used the adjective “meaningful”, which can be interpreted in many, many ways.

        Also, don’t you think BP is also “beloved” by his kids?

      • Carmen says:

        I wonder how “beloved” he is by his kids after he’s publicly trashed their mother.

      • ariana says:

        @lingli: If Brad was “beloved” by his children the Court would not have had to basically FORCE them to see him. The leaked document clearly states the children wanted nothing to do with their father. Sad as that is, it means Brad did something so horrible it turned all his children against him.

      • .... says:

        @lingli…..no one thinks Brad is beloved by his kids. That’s the entire point…..they don’t want to know him….he won’t go away…. he needs the good dad image to make more money for what I don’t know because he isn’t spending it on his kids. They need to not be around him for their health and well being. He’s toxic.

      • theplot says:

        So ya’ll think it’s okay for children to be alienated from their father who is following the conditions of the court to the letter BUT you think he should just fork over blank checks to Ang whenever she demands. Have I got that right?

      • Carmen says:

        He should certainly be paying his fair share of child support, which he evidently hasn’t been, and his children would probably be much more amenable to visiting with him if he hadn’t acted like such a jerk.

      • InquisitiveNewt says:

        An addict every day of his marriage, unstable, riddled with childhood demons and behaving so appallingly to his child that Angelina fled with all of them, at once. Riiggght. All her fault because she’s… What? The woman? Independent? Uncompromising and prepared to call him out on his shitty behaviour?

  2. bap says:

    Page Six are Hypocrites they have been Pro Brat Pitt since 2016. Team Jolie! Angelina divorce this spineless so called man who will Not defend his family and pay his required child support.

    • Brandy Alexander says:

      Yeah, that immediate article they published that he was binging on drugs and Russian hookers on the set of Allied was totally pro-Brad.

      • KB says:

        They were also pushing the “Brad caught cheating with Marion Cotillard” angle. They said Angie hired a PI who uncovered the affair lol. He was apparently very busy when filming Allied!

      • ariana says:

        @Brandy Alexander: What has Brad’s team promised these tabs that have been running this “Jolie is a Bitch” narrative? An exclusive interview. new pictures of Brad when he dates 16 year olds. You know these unscrupulous tabs have been promised some sort of compensation for printing lies about Angelina.

        Of course these tabs NEVER mention the fact Brad is the originator of this tragedy. The plane incident is never mentioned, nor is Brad’s addictions, or the fact he is STILL not allowed to be alone with his children after 2 years.

        I wonder how a man who cannot be alone with his children can possibly be allowed to have them 50% of the time, and let’s not forget, the children do not even want to be with Pitt. Whatever he did, he certainly harmed his children psychologically, which would fall under child abuse, even if he only hit Maddox, but let’s not forget, “not in the head”.

  3. minx says:

    I just hate Page Six and the Post.

  4. Alexandria says:

    I thought Brad was a good person, a flawed but fundamentally good person. Now he’s just becoming more despicable. I think back to that time he got a standing ovation after his divorce, as if he was the one who did a Katie Holmes to escape that witch Angelina. Brad you suck and you’re not cool!

    • Morning Coffee says:

      Pitt has been playing it this way for years. He let Angelina take ALL of the heat for the end of his marriage to Jennifer Aniston. I always say that anger at “the other woman” is often misplaced. Angelina didn’t take and break vows. Brad did. But Angelina was the villain and poor Brad just couldn’t resist. Look back at this time – even the Team Angelina crowd focused on Jennifer implying that she didn’t want children. Never was there any “Brad is just a d-bag who couldn’t keep it in his pants.”

      • Maya says:

        I was one of those who criticised Jennifer for her pr games and now I can say I was wrong.

        Since last week, I have been thinking how unfair I have been towards Jennifer. Jennifer couldn’t go after Brad so she went after Angelina.

        That is not right but I can understand it more now.

      • Carmen says:

        @Maya: I don’t think you were unfair to her. Some of her PR games were flat-out ridiculous. But when people have been publicly humiliated they don’t always exercise their best judgment.

    • .... says:

      He’s a womanizer….as in he uses their image to up his image. He’s done it for years…..its been almost two years and he can’t leach onto to anyone and start putting that crap out there like he usually does…..he’s not famous for his acting. He’s a nineties teen beat cover boy throwback who’s been working the media w his relationships for decades.

      Two years with nothing to distract the few ladies who might still like him? The real Brad is coming through…and it’s not cute.

      • Natalia says:

        @….

        “…he’s not famous for his acting. He’s a nineties teen beat cover boy throwback who’s been working the media w his relationships for decades.”

        Oh come on. That’s just silly (unrealistic).

      • Natalia says:

        Never ceases to amaze me how people will attack someone’s talent when they don’t like them personally or if they don’t like what the person is doing.

        No matter how you feel about Brad Pitt he is a good actor and he does have a good production company and he is part of really good projects.

        I don’t like what he’s doing at all, but you can’t say he doesn’t have an admirable career.

      • .... says:

        @natalia…..he got famous for his looks and being the cute dude. Not his acting. His movies are cringeworthy as is his acting. No comedic talent whatsoever either. He sounds like an idiot when unscripted….and in interviews.

        It’s easy to say there is nothing admirable about him and be honest when I say it. It is true. And you don’t have to know him personally to know that. We have all learned who Brad is through his public actions……he’s no gentleman, and he’s not admirable or someone whom I can respect.

      • Carmen says:

        Come on, now, that’s unfair. I think Pitt is a world-class jerk but that doesn’t negate the fact that he has serious acting chops. He didn’t get as far as he has on his looks alone. Plenty of Hollywood golden boys prettier than him have lasted a few seasons and then vanished into obscurity because they didn’t have the talent to go with their looks.

      • .... says:

        But he had his golden Hollywood relationships to keep everyone interested. And he’s been in one constantly since mid to early nineties. That’s a long time…almost thirty years….with no time in between relationships.

        He’s now been relationship free for two years now……how’s that going?

      • InquisitiveNewt says:

        His remaining female fans seem to live on the Daily Wail’s comment pages. They’re spoiled for choice at the moment – who to attack first, the Duchess of Sussex, Amber Heard or Angelina Jolie? I imagine there’s a lot of pearl clutching going on this morning!

      • .... says:

        @inquis…..nah. That’s his pr playground. They work that site so hard it’s pathetic , disgusting….and way obvious.

  5. Andrea1 says:

    Angelina just keep your head up high in the end the truth will come out. She has nothing to lose again bad press can only last for a while before it turns on the person dishing it out to the media.

    • Carrie says:

      Yep. That’s the best way.

    • Go Figure! says:

      @Maya: I have to basically disagree with you. Angie didn’t break up Jennifer and Brad’s marriage. Brad did and Aniston never held him accountable. It was and is not right that she came after Jolie, calling her the other woman. I also abhor how Aniston’s minions, especially Ho Handler, came after Jolie with her seeming approval. She went after the wrong person. And if this is how PR is done, shame on each and every person involved in this. And double shame on Brat Pitt (no typo) for never stating Angie broke up his marriage.

      • Maya says:

        I am not saying she was right but I can understand her tactics a bit better now.

        Doesn’t mean I forgive her for Handler and other stuff nor I am going to become a fan of hers.

  6. Jess says:

    Brad Pitt is clearly a d-bag.

  7. Maya says:

    Are people forgetting Brad also added new lawyers last week? Angelina added and didn’t fire Laura as people seem to claim.

    Nonetheless, I am pretty darn happy that Angelina got these wonderful new lawyers who aren’t pushovers. They have also been voted best lawyer 7 years in a row and they know they stuff.

    That is why Brad and team are panicking because something big must be coming. Something negative about him so they are out there preempting they negative by smearing Angelina and putting doubts in people mind. That way people will question whatever negative about Brad that will come out. That is out of Trump’s playbook and it is working.

    Angelina picks her battle and right now her timing is spot on whenever Brad smears her.

    One strike and people now knows he is a deadbeat dad who threw his children out of their home. Next, we will find out something equally awful he has done and doing.

    Angelina only shows the truth while Brad lies and smears. That’s the reason Brad may win the battle but Angelina will win the war.

    And bs to that person yesterday who claimed Angelina is hated in Hollywood. She had 3 movies coming out, 2 in production and 1 potential direction. She is friends with heads of Universal, Disney & Netflix. She will be fine because she is fighting for her children and herself.

    • Booie says:

      @maya
      ITA! It seems Angelina is content as well. And as she’s footing the bill, that’s probably the only opinion that matters. 😉

    • Andrea1 says:

      Spot Maya spot on! I also believe something big is about to drop… She has played nice for too long I’m glad she’s got the best hands in the business they sure know what they’re doing!

  8. Rapunzel says:

    Angelina’s lawyers have not attacked Brad. They’ve simply pointed out facts. If facts are attacking Brad, then he needs to change the facts.

    Totally not here for this “both sides suck” nonsense.

    • Fa says:

      All her legal documents she recorded with the court, she always put out statements with names attached. Not once sources from her said a bad things about him and never they said he’s a bad father. She knows their kids are reading online & they will never read their mother saying some bad words about their father, but kids are not stupid they know how Hollywood operates with tabloids quoting sources from their father sources saying nasty word towards their mother, they can easier make up their opinions where this are from.

  9. bap says:

    The low information and jealous people believe in the tabloids lies regarding Angelina.

    • Lady D says:

      There are people out there who believe every single thing tabloids print. How’s that for both sad and scary?

      • InquisitiveNewt says:

        It confirms their preexisting bias and, in the echo chamber of online media, makes them feel not only that their opinions are validated as facts but that they are morally upright in holding them.
        Pretty noxious, really.

  10. D says:

    I officially hate his face

    • Wasabi says:

      Seconded.

    • .... says:

      I know! Anyone who attaches this guy to a project is crazy. I know no one who would go see one of his movies. His acting is too awful and it’s not 1995 anymore. The movie bar was suuuuper low back then. And his movies especially did not age well. They are super cheesy and Baaaad.

      Looking forward to a few decades without this dude and his PR team electing him prom king and shoving him in my face constantly. His using people, including children, tactic has done him in. He’s going down the same way he went up. By using people. So poetic.

      • KB says:

        He’s a great actor. Babel, Moneyball, Benjamin Button, Fight Club, Seven…you don’t have to like him personally, but I don’t see how you can deny his talent.

  11. Eleonor says:

    Two of Kim Basinger lawyers…Brad is playing in the Alec Baldwin league. That says it all.

    • Myrtle says:

      It also says a lot that sh*t heel Alec Baldwin remains a beloved Hollywood fixture, endearing character and popular actor—much admired for spoofing Trump on SNL, his role in 30 Rock, etc—while Kim Basinger is more or less retired. By choice? I don’t know. But Alec is protected, and Brad is so golden, he may never tarnish.

      If Team AJ does release some horrible secret to take BP down a notch, I would expect the kids already know all about it; it even may be why the years of family therapy and supervised visits are required. So at least it won’t be news to them to discover on the internet. There’s got to be much more going on here than the public has any idea.

      • Carrie says:

        That’s what the industry is I think. Messed up people. Angie has migrated away from it because she’s not interested in them. That’s also why they dislike or criticize her perhaps. She has other options, doesn’t need Hollywood and some in that industry take it personally. Just a guess.

      • .... says:

        Alec is talented and funny. Brad is not.

      • Eleonor says:

        This is one thing I would never understand: there are actors/directors in Hollyweird who are protected, and other who are thrown away immediately.
        And mostly women must pay.
        We are the one who are “overreacting and difficult”.
        Now: if difficult means to be able to stand up for myself, I am proud do be difficult.

  12. lucy2 says:

    I’m really sad for the kids that this is getting so ugly in public.
    Brad’s team running to the tabloids non-stop is really disturbing. I don’t blame Angelina for wanting to fire back, but I hope it doesn’t make the whole thing even uglier. Can they go to some kind of arbitration or something? Two years of this is too long for everyone involved.

    • whatWHAT? says:

      everything you said. Pitt needs to cough up whatever he needs to, and act like he actually cares about (re)building his relationship with his kids. as others have said, he seems to care more about “winning” against Jolie than he does about making his kids feel safe and cared-for. I fully believe this is about revenge, she walked and didn’t look back and gave him (in HIS mind) NO CHANCE to make it right. when in reality, she probably gave him many chances to address his issues.

      I have to say it again…I NEVER would have thought that their split would be this nasty. I mean, I really didn’t think they’d split up but this is just way beyond.

  13. Sparkly says:

    He’s completely ruined any goodwill I had for him. Now he’s a Tom Cruise — used to be hot, showed his true colors, and now I can’t bear to watch anything with his stupid face.

  14. Carrie says:

    I’m worried about rising costs of legal fees. It’s taking from the kids ultimately. Driven by Brad’s b.s. This is not good.

    • Go Figure! says:

      Oh don’t worry. Brat Pitt will go off and make another bomb and make $10mm for it. I double he’ll be hurt in the long run. And for him to make a loan (and yes loan with interest no less) to the mother of his wife so his children have a roof over their head? Despicable!

  15. Dr Mrs The Monarch says:

    It is horrible that this is reaching Baldwin-level messy. Brad has messed up big time and he has spent millions of dollars trying to fix the mess, but it is nowhere near 50%. And he didn’t even have joint custody for over a year, so he should have been paying much more.

    The three-pronged attack of paying a minimal amount to support the kids, dragging out the divorce for years to rack up legal fees and also trying to destroy AJ’s ability to work is pretty harsh financial punishment. She has every right to fight back through legal means.

    Brad needs to shut up, pay up and move on before she sues for alimony and sole custody and moves the kids far away.

    • Maya says:

      It’s beyond Baldwin mess – Brad not only verbally abused the children, he also physically abused them. Baldwin as far as I know, never laid a hand on Ireland.

      Baldwin’s true nature come out with a tape and so will Brad’s.

      • .... says:

        Yeah Alec Baldwin was never this bad ever and has proven to be a loving dad and husband…….
        Brad Pitt is like that Thomas markle character….or Donald trump.

        I think he most definitely has clinical level narcissism and borderline personality disorder…..hence the very supervised by very prof level ppl visitation…..he’s just never gonna think he’s wrong or own up to any of his own behavior….it’s always someone else…..and they’ll take you out before they let you blow their cover and ruin their reputation.

  16. Sidewithkids says:

    Angie living her best life tho. She was at Laguna Beach w/ her kids not worried about this douche. She’s rid of him. All she wants is her kids. She loves them and isn’t just using them for some image and a way to her others. I so hope this judge and therapists see this guy’s horrible tactics. I like this new lawyer, she’s gonna fight for Angie and that’s a great thing. Angie needs more real people in her life on her side and the kid’s side. God bless her, this is almost over and she can get away from him. I hope Angie finds real true love, someone who will really have her and the kids back. She will be stronger b/c of this tho. I also believe when it’s all said and done she will have won this war.

  17. .... says:

    Another concern is brads past drinking and cognitive issues. David c a sis dy had full blown dementia early …from alcoholism. I’d never let him be alone w my kids again. Looking back through the decades it’s so obvious….now in hindsight. You can see his arrogance and abusiveness. Some photos those kids look terrified and I always assumed it was the photographers scaring them. But in pics w just mom they always look fine.

  18. Sidewithkids says:

    Lol. I apologize for the long post. Just getting real w/ it.

  19. Coco for puffs says:

    Of course when the final judgment is reached which includes joint custody they will act as if he hit the lottery. This is what the set up will be. Don’t people know Angie knows him better than anyone and his moves. She knew he was well on the way to putting his PR plan in tact for this award season and movie premiere. He did it the whole time they were together when he had a big movie coming out.
    I will never forget that huge hoopla around WWZ in which he was horrible. He flaunted Angie out after her breast reconstruction for this. I got him.
    I guess he hired his publicist back after Angie left.

  20. bap says:

    Glad Angelina is divorcing this fake father. Pay your child support.

  21. .... says:

    “BP is now an utter loser who is reduced to leaking defamatory stories to get his side across”.

    Lol. People think that’s….because that’s what he’s been doing. People see him….because for two years he’s had no woman to hide behind. His tactics are obvious

  22. Sidewithkids says:

    Lol @Lingli, at JJ and DM they go out for blood against Angie. It’s like she’s Satan (which is awful and so far from the truth). His fans are much worse than these guys. Early on, I gave Brad plenty of benefits of doubt, no longer tho b/c it’s pretty obvious the dude isn’t and hasn’t stood up for his family plus he’s drinking and anger was the reason for the divorce (sure she may have done some things too) but mainly he not being there for them was the main reason, even he kinda said it in the GQ article he rushed out to do when the FBI and social services was on him. So yeah, I’m not gonna feel sorry for him b/c he got those fake HW people doing doing standing Os at the GGs. Lol. So yeah, Angie needs all the support she can get.

  23. bap says:

    Angelina and her lawyers must be doing something right or he would not be launching a smear campaign against her since 2016.

  24. .... says:

    This is the longest he’s gone without being in a relationship to work the tabloids with in almost thirty years. Two years without a crutch…… it’s been a pathetic and grand display I must say. The cat is definitely out of the bag.