Why Angelina Jolie won’t let it go: inside her reignited battle with Brad Pitt over Shiloh and her siblings, as she now aims to get the judge booted off the case
- Hollywood couple Brangelina’s divorce has faced plenty of delays: Pitt got joint custody, but now Jolie is bidding to dump their private judge John Ouderkirk
- Their lawyers didn’t come to a decision in the California courts, but Jolie has been criticised for stalling as more of their children reach adulthood
The long-delayed Brangelina divorce entered a new stage of complications last week when their big-name legal teams went before a California appellate court to argue about Jolie’s bid to dump their private judge and start over on their nearly five-year-old custody battle.
There was no immediate decision from the three-justice panel following more than an hour of back-and-forth between power lawyers Robert Olson for Jolie and Ted Boutrous for Pitt.
What’s happened now?
Jolie’s lawyer said Judge John Ouderkirk, the judge who married Jolie and Pitt in 2014, who was picked by both stars to preside as a paid private judge over their 2016 divorce, should now be dismissed because he failed to fully disclose in a timely manner professional links to one of Pitt’s lawyers.
“If you’re going to play the role of a paid private judge, you have to play by the rules and the rules are very clear, they require full transparency,” Olson said. “Matters that should have been disclosed were not disclosed. If rules have no consequences they are empty.”
Is Ange just stalling?