Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Forbidden Romance Began While He Was Still Married to Jennifer Aniston

Published 07/16/2023, 4:30 PM EDT

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They were the perfect couple, with glamour and passion. They had everything—fame, fortune, and a lovely family. But their love story started with a scandal that stunned the world. He felt attracted to his co-star while he was still married. They said they were not in love, but their actions showed otherwise. They acted as a married couple in a movie, but he was already married in real life. It seems like fiction, but it’s the truth. They were Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Aniston, some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

Pitt and Jolie acted as a married couple who secretly try to kill each other in the action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2004. They had a strong attraction, and people started to gossip about an affair. At the time, Pitt was married to Aniston, who was a popular and beloved star of Friends. Jolie had just divorced her second husband and had adopted her first child, Maddox, from Cambodia.

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Angelina Jolie told Vogue in 2006, as People reported, that she and Brad Pitt did not plan to fall in love while making the movie. She said they felt a bond during the scenes where they had to do a lot of action. She said they understood at the end of the shooting that it might be more than they admitted before. They already had feelings for each other even before he separated from his wife.

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Pitt and Jennifer Aniston went their ways in January 2005 after being married for five years. Much later, in August 2014, after spending nine years Pitt and Jolie exchanged vows in a small intimate ceremony on their estate in France. The newly married couple soon became one of Hollywood’s most influential ones.

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However, fate conspired again.

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Jolie and Pitt lived a famous life. People around the world watched their love story and their movies. They made successful films together in Hollywood. But their marriage did not last. Ultimately, a divorce was filed by Angelina Jolie in 2016. The Salt actress said they had irreconcilable differences” and wanted to have physical custody of their children. The divorce was triggered by an alleged incident of Brad Pitt being violent with her son Maddox on a plane from France to Los Angeles.

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An ongoing argument is still not over who gets custody of their children. They became legally single in 2019, but the divorce has not gone under the hammer yet. A relationship once seen as a fairy tale romance that defied all expectations and turned into a story that left many fans feeling heartbroken. However, the duo has moved ahead with their respective lives and are looking forward to new experiences.

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What did you think of Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Angelina Jolie’s twist of tales? Let us know in the comments.

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Imteshal Karim

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Imteshal Karim is a Hollywood News reporter at NetflixJunkie. With a penchant for writing in multiple forms, he is a published writer with his works published in anthologies. A star at his college’s writing competitions, he loves telling a good story and hopes to tell impactful ones about the unexplored side of the Entertainment industry.

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