Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reached a divorce settlement after eight years of contentious back and forth in the public eye, a lawyer for Jolie confirmed to NBC News on Monday night.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,” Jolie’s attorney, James Simon of Hersh Mannis, said in a statement. “This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
The settlement was signed and filed on Dec. 30, Jolie’s team confirmed with NBC News. Pitt’s team declined to comment.
Once Hollywood’s most famous couple, Pitt, 61, and Jolie, 49, met on the set of the 2005 movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and got married in 2014. They share six children.
Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, citing irreconcilable differences. They were officially declared single in 2019 after being granted a bifurcated judgment, which meant they were technically still married but legally separated.
A separate legal dispute between Pitt and Jolie involving a French winery is ongoing.
The acrimony since their split has included Pitt filing a lawsuit in 2022 accusing Jolie of intentionally harming him and the French winery business they once shared. The former couple purchased shares in the 148-acre French vineyard Chateau Miraval together in 2008.
The divorce agreement does not affect the legal dispute over the winery, which is ongoing.
Following Pitt’s lawsuit about the winery, Jolie filed a cross-complaint in which she alleged Pitt subjected their family to verbal and physical abuse. The “Maria” star alleged that Pitt choked one of their children and struck another in the face during a 2016 trans-Atlantic flight.
No criminal charges were ever filed against Pitt. The FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services closed an investigation into allegations of abuse on board the flight in 2016.
“Brad has owned everything he’s responsible for from day one … but he’s not going to own anything he didn’t do,” Anne Kiley, an attorney for Pitt, told NBC News in part in 2022 following Jolie’s cross-complaint.
Earlier this year, the couple’s daughter Shiloh, 18, was granted a request by a judge to drop “Pitt” from her last name.
Another one of their daughters, Zahara, 19, also publicly excluded “Pitt” from her name in 2023 when she formally joined her sorority at Spelman College, as seen in a video shared by Essence.
