Back at war: Angelina Jolie’s shock new victory in her custody battle with Brad Pitt – what happens with Shiloh and her siblings now, and is there even a point any more?

Jul 30 , 2021

Angelina and Brad Pitt’s custody battle over their children, including Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt, pictured, continues. Photos: GC Images, AFP

The never-ending Brangelina saga continues with Jolie successfully getting their private judge, John Ouderkirk, fired due to an ‘ethical breach’

But as their children Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox get older – Maddox is already 19 – what will the Hollywood star exes do next?

When a judge granted Brad Pitt joint custody with Angelina Jolie over their expansive brood in May, we thought the war was over and the dust would quietly settle. But alas, much like many of her famous movie characters, Jolie is a fighter. So much so, that when she didn’t get her way, she managed to get the entire verdict overturned!

Here’s the latest in the never-ending saga of Game of Brangelina.

Angelina Jolie, accompanied by her children, poses as she attends the UK premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in London, Britain, in October 2019. Photo: Reuters

Ange got the judge fired!

The long and winding divorce was thrown into further delay last week after a California appeal court handed Jolie a major victory by disqualifying the private judge the couple used to handle the split and their contentious custody dispute.

The Second District Court of Appeal agreed with Jolie that Judge John Ouderkirk didn’t sufficiently disclose in a timely manner business relationships with Pitt’s lawyers, thus raising potential questions about his impartiality.

“Judge Ouderkirk’s ethical breach, considered together with the information disclosed concerning his recent professional relationships with Pitt’s counsel, might cause an objective person, aware of all the facts, reasonably to entertain a doubt as to the judge’s ability to be impartial. Disqualification is required,” the court ruled.

Brad Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie arrive with their children Knox, Vivienne and Pax at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Japan, in July 2013. Photo: Reuters

The entire battle so far might’ve been for nothing

The decision means that the custody fight over the couple’s five minor children, which was nearing an end, could be starting over with a new judge. The couple have six children but the eldest, Maddox, is 19.