Victory for Brad Pitt! Inside his new custody win over Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and her siblings, while judge claims Angelina Jolie ‘lacked credibility’
- Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turns 15 this week, and it looks like she will be spending more time with her dad Brad Pitt following a judge’s tentative custody ruling
- Court papers show the judge found Jolie’s challenge could ‘work grave harm upon the children, who will be further denied permanence and stability’
A California judge ruled that a custody order concerning Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s children must be modified in his favour, according to court documents filed by Brad’s lawyers.
Superstars Pitt and Jolie, who have six children and were once Hollywood’s highest-profile couple, formally divorced two years ago but have remained locked in a private court battle since.
The pair announced in 2018 they had reached an amicable settlement over the children – three biological and three adopted – which has been publicly and dramatically unravelled since then.
A victory for Brad
Documents filed by Pitt’s lawyers at a California appeal court seen by AFP claim a privately appointed judge made a “tentative ruling” in which he found “the existing custody order between the parties must be modified, per Mr Pitt’s request”.
The papers also claim that the judge found Jolie’s “testimony lacked credibility in many important areas” and that her bid to challenge the new custody proceedings would “work grave harm upon the children, who will be further denied permanence and stability”.
It’s been a long battle