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(L-R) Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Zahara Marley Jolie and Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt attend the MARIA Spotlight Screening and Q&A at Alice Tully Hall on September 29, 2024 in New York City.
Jason Mendez/Getty Images for NetflixBrad Pitt and Angelina JolieThe legal battle over their divorce seems to have taught their children some lessons.
“Kids have grown up seeing that some people have so much power and privilege that their voices don’t matter. Their pain doesn’t count,” shares a source close to the matter My Weekly. “They’ve wanted (Angelina) to speak up for themselves, to defend themselves over the years, but she’s reminding them to focus on changing laws before telling public stories.”
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 after two years of marriagereferring to irreconcilable differences. The pair share six children: Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
While the exes were legally single as of November 2019, they both battled it out in court. custody issues and their French winery Château Miraval.
On Monday, December 30 Our confirmed that Pitt, 61, and Jolie, 49, finally signed their divorce.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt,” Jolie’s lawyer James Simon Hersh Mannis said Our. “She and the children have left all the properties they shared with Mr. Pitt and have since focused on finding peace and healing for their family. This is just one part of a long ongoing process that began eight years ago. Honestly, Angelina is exhausted, but she’s relieved that this part is over.”
A rep for Pitt declined to confirm or comment on the settled divorce.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attend a private reception as costumes and props from Disney’s ‘Maleficent’ are on display to support Great Ormond Street Hospital at Kensington Palace on May 8, 2014 in London, England.
Fred Duval/FilmMagicDespite the pair’s messy legal battle, the source says Our Jolie does not “bad-mouth” Pitt publicly or privately to their children. Instead, she’s focused on moving forward from a difficult time in her life.
“She’s trying hard to be bright after a dark time,” the insider explains.
Before the divorce settlement, Jolie celebrated her starring role in the film Pablo Larrain‘with Maria Callas biopic, Maria. While discussing the project, the actress shared the similarities and differences between herself and her character.
“I have a family,” she told The Sunday Times earlier this month. “Maria had no family, so her work was everything. My work is not everything. Being a parent is everything.”
When it comes to dating, Pitt has been linked to a jewelry designer Ines de Ramon from 2022. The source previously said Our in October that Jolie, meanwhile, is “focusing on her family and is not dating at this time.”