Has Brad Pitt ever looked more improbably handsome? Out in LA this week with girlfriend Ines de Ramon, some 29 years his junior, Pitt was an A-lister in his prime, from his modish moustache to his oh-so-chiselled jaw.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Hollywood plastic surgeons even reported a boom in requests from male patients to have their salivary glands removed to create a sharper jawline after the release of the phenomenally successful Pitt film F1 last summer, in which he played washed-up racing driver Sonny Hayes.<\/p>\n
At 62, he remains an iconic figure for young and old: men still want to be him, women still want to be with him.<\/p>\n
At least, most men and women. Because despite his popularity with friends, colleagues and the public at large, Pitt is now completely estranged from all of his six children from his former marriage to Angelina Jolie.<\/p>\n
Not one of these young adults \u2013 their three adopted children Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, and Zahara, 21, and Pitt\u2019s biological children Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17 \u2013 have any meaningful relationship with him, something those close to him place firmly at the feet of Jolie.<\/p>\n
Her actions, they say, mean the most desired man in Hollywood is now a total pariah to his own children.<\/p>\n
A friend confirms this state of affairs to me, saying: \u2018There has been a campaign of alienation [by Jolie] which has been successful.<\/p>\n
\u2018The antagonism is huge. He has been alienated from the kids completely. It is devastating to him.\u2019<\/p>\n
Brad Pitt, 62, pictured with girlfriend Ines de Ramon, who is 29 years his junior, at an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday night<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Pitt and Jolie (pictured together at the Academy Awards in 2014) had one of Hollywood\u2019s highest-profile romances until the pair\u2019s shock split in 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jolie with their children, from left, Shiloh, Zahara, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Only the twins are under 18 and thus required to submit to court-mandated visits from Pitt \u2013 a condition of his divorce settlement with Jolie.<\/p>\n
Despite this, he\u2019s barely seen them at all this year.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s partly because he has been working \u2013 but also because, like the rest of his children, the twins want nothing to do with him.<\/p>\n
As they turn 18 in July, one can imagine whatever limited contact they have with their father may dry up further after that.<\/p>\n
The incident which caused this brutal schism took place in September 2016 and saw the actor come within a well-groomed whisker of being cancelled completely.<\/p>\n
It was alleged that, while the family were travelling on a private jet, a drunken Pitt poured beer and wine on his family, told the children their mother was \u2018crazy\u2019, punched the ceiling of the plane, shoved Jolie and \u2018choked\u2019 a child.<\/p>\n
He has always denied all allegations of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n
He has since recovered his career to a degree, which reflects the fact that he has many close and powerful friends in Tinseltown.<\/p>\n
Indeed, he won the first acting Oscar of his career for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood in 2020.<\/p>\n
But his personal life remains indelibly marked by that incident and its aftermath.<\/p>\n
This was all too clear after his adoptive daughter Zahara graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Receiving a BA in psychology, she was cheered by Jolie and some of her siblings \u2013 but there was no sign of Pitt.<\/p>\n
Celebrity gossip website TMZ reported: \u2018Brad Pitt\u2019s estrangement from his daughter Zahara has not cooled off\u2026 with sources telling TMZ that the actor did not reach out ahead of her graduation from Spelman.\u2019<\/p>\n
It went on: \u2018A source close to Angelina tells TMZ, \u201cZahara\u2019s mom and siblings, who have been involved over the four very special years, were present and cheering her and her Spelman sisters on\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018The source added, \u201cNothing prevented him from showing up for her. Or ever visiting her. The day was about all she accomplished. Not whether he was willing to attend\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018Sources tell us Brad didn\u2019t contact anyone about getting a ticket to her graduation ceremony last weekend.\u2019<\/p>\n
Receiving a BA in psychology, Zahara was cheered by Jolie and some of her siblings \u2013 but there was no sign of Pitt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Zahara \u2013 like brothers Pax and Maddox \u2013 has not had a close relationship with Pitt since his split from Angelina in 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
This story has provoked fury in the Pitt camp, with one insider telling me: \u2018You can\u2019t have it both ways \u2013 to promote a complete estrangement and then criticise someone for not going to an event when you\u2019ve made sure that they would not be welcome.<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s not a situation which he created\u2019.<\/p>\n
Words such as \u2018evil\u2019 and \u2018manipulative\u2019 are also thrown around when referring to Jolie.<\/p>\n
But Zahara evidently has a deep bond with her actress and humanitarian mother.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a sorority event this month, she called Jolie \u2018the most selfless, loving and understanding woman\u2019.<\/p>\n
Zahara \u2013 like brothers Pax and Maddox \u2013 has not had a close relationship with Pitt since his split from Angelina in 2016.<\/p>\n
Adopted at seven months by Jolie, then by Pitt during their relationship, Zahara removed Pitt from her last name when she was in college and began going by Zahara Jolie. The same is true of all the children.<\/p>\n
First to drop Pitt\u2019s name appears to have been Maddox, the Cambodian orphan whom Jolie adopted when she was briefly married to actor Billy Bob Thornton.<\/p>\n
It was Maddox who was at the centre of conflict on that fateful jet flight.<\/p>\n
Pitt was said to have accused his wife of \u2018ruining\u2019 the family because of the way she was raising Maddox, whom he referred to as a \u2018Columbine kid\u2019 \u2013 an apparent allusion to the notorious 1999 school shooting. Maddox is widely said to openly detest Pitt.<\/p>\n
Next came Pax \u2013 adopted by Jolie in 2007 and later by Pitt \u2013 who called Brad a \u2018terrible person\u2019 in a social media rant in 2016.<\/p>\n
He added: \u2018You have no consideration or empathy toward your four youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence.<\/p>\n
\u2018You will never understand the damage you have done to my family because you\u2019re incapable of doing so.\u2019<\/p>\n
He also goes by Pax Jolie in his work as a film producer.<\/p>\n
Jolie and Pitt\u2019s son Maddox Jolie has dropped from his father\u2019s last name, months after his sister Shiloh made the same move; seen in 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Last year, Shiloh (R), who was born Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, legally changed her name to Shiloh Jolie shortly after turning 18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hard-partying Pax ran into the back of a car while riding his e-bike last year, ending up in intensive care with \u2018complex trauma\u2019 including a brain bleed and head and hip injury.<\/p>\n
Witnesses reportedly thought Pax \u2013 who wasn\u2019t wearing a helmet \u2013 was dead and it is said that first responders saved his life.\u00a0Jolie was by his side in hospital and all five siblings visited \u2013 but not Pitt.<\/p>\n
Shiloh, who for a time was known as \u2018John\u2019 and dressed as a boy, filed a petition in court to legally drop Pitt as her last name on her 18th birthday. She is a talented dancer and choreographer.<\/p>\n
Sources in the Jolie camp claimed that she had found and funded a lawyer herself to cut out the Pitt name \u2013 a cruel swipe at her father if that is the case.<\/p>\n
Even Vivienne, not yet 18, chose to go under the name of Jolie when she was involved in a musical adaptation last year.<\/p>\n
It seems Pitt, though, has not given up hope of reuniting with all of his children, adopted and biological.<\/p>\n
A friend says: \u2018He continues to hope that one day a reconciliation is possible.\u2019<\/p>\n
The example of Alec Baldwin, who once infamously raged at daughter Ireland that she was a \u2018thoughtless pig\u2019, is cited.<\/p>\n
That father-daughter relationship was destroyed in the fallout of a toxic divorce between Baldwin and actress Kim Basinger, but he and Ireland are now close.<\/p>\n
\u2018There\u2019s a hope that in time they will all find each other,\u2019 I am told.<\/p>\n
Sadly, though, it seems further division is inevitable, as Jolie plans to leave LA in the very near future.<\/p>\n
This month, she put her historic Beaux-Arts mansion up for sale. Purchased immediately after their split, it is on sale for a shade under $30million.<\/p>\n
Pax, Jolie, Zahara and Maddox in New York in September 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Her plan appears to be to leave LA, where Pitt chiefly lives, and split her time between Europe \u2013 most likely Paris \u2013 and Cambodia, a country with which she feels a kinship and from where she adopted Maddox. She already has a house there. Some of the adult children will stay behind in New York, where they are based in an apartment in the city.<\/p>\n
Jolie told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2024 of her plans to leave the city as soon as her youngest children hit their milestone 18th birthday \u2013 now a matter of weeks away \u2013 as her residency there was a stipulation in her custody agreement with Pitt.<\/p>\n
\u2018I grew up in this town. I am here because I have to be here from a divorce but as soon as they\u2019re 18, I\u2019ll be able to leave,\u2019 Jolie said, before explaining that she has not yet decided where she will settle down.<\/p>\n
\u2018When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety\u2026 that humanity that I found across the world is not what I grew up with here. [After Los Angeles] I\u2019ll spend a lot of time in Cambodia. I\u2019ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world,\u2019 she continued.<\/p>\n
She hinted France might be the place to settle last year, saying: \u2018I find it very enriching as an artist and as a woman to be in France. I feel that more of myself comes out here. The conversations seem deeper and more enriching to me.\u2019<\/p>\n
Since their divorce in 2024 \u2013 they were married ten years previously, after reportedly getting together while Pitt was married to first wife Jennifer Aniston \u2013 Jolie seems to have been single, apart from a dalliance with Canadian singer The Weeknd in 2021.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pitt has been dating jewellery designer Ines since 2022. They have been living together for more than a year and went \u2018red carpet official\u2019 at the premiere of the film Wolfs at the Venice film festival two years ago.<\/p>\n
Maddox seen above on Pitt\u2019s shoulders in 2006 while\u00a0Jolie carries Zahara in her arms<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Fluent in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian, Ines is a sophisticated divorcee from a wealthy European background.<\/p>\n
With a business degree from the University of Geneva, and knowledgeable about wine, fashion and music, one imagines that she more than holds her own at any high-powered Hollywood dinner.<\/p>\n
And there will be many of those, as Pitt\u2019s career has never been on better ground. F1 was the highest grossing film of his career, introducing him to a new, younger audience and earning him $40million.<\/p>\n
\u2018He is without question one of the biggest movie stars in the world,\u2019 says an associate. \u2018No question \u2013 and he does not take that for granted.\u2019<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, he has three films in the can, two of which are ready to release and attracting awards chatter.<\/p>\n
Chief among them is Heart Of The Beast, a gritty survival drama in which he plays a man who crashes his plane in Alaska, with only his dog for company.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s said to showcase him as a serious actor, much as Tom Hanks\u2019 Cast Away did, bringing Hanks an Oscar nomination in 2001.<\/p>\n
The question at this point, then, is whether his ongoing serious romance will lead to Pitt\u2019s third marriage.<\/p>\n
Alas, the answer is a firm \u2018no\u2019. Marriage, say Pitt\u2019s camp, is not on the cards. Although Pitt and de Ramon are very happy, and he enjoys the \u2018peace\u2019 and \u2018support\u2019 of his \u2018easygoing\u2019 girlfriend, friends say they can\u2019t see him getting married again or having more children.<\/p>\n
\u2018He has a great partner who he appreciates but there is no rush in that direction,\u2019 says a source.<\/p>\n
Given the heartbreak over his children with Jolie, who could blame him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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