Deadbeat Brad? Angelina Jolie says Pitt hasn’t paid his share of child support – and US$8 million loan came with interest

Angelina Jolie says a US$8 million loan her ex Brad Pitt gave her for a home came with interest, and is stating publicly, through a representative, that she has been forced to shoulder alone the majority of the former Hollywood power couple’s six children’s expenses for the past two years.

The striking statement comes hours after Pitt filed documents in court countering Jolie’s claim he had not paid any “meaningful” child support amid their ongoing divorce proceedings.

In those documents, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Pitt’s attorneys reject her claim, stating that the actor has loaned Jolie US$8 million for her current Los Angeles residence and has paid over US$1.3 million in bills for her and their six children.

Pitt’s lawyer, Lance Spiegel, slammed Jolie’s claim in her filing, calling it “unnecessary, omits material information, and is a thinly veiled effort to manipulate media coverage.”

But Jolie’s lawyer, Samantha Bley DeJean, was having none of it.

“Angelina’s filing of yesterday was both legally appropriate and factually accurate in all respects,” DeJean said in a statement late Wednesday. “What has been filed by Brad’s side today is a blatant attempt to obfuscate the truth and distract from the fact that he has not fully met his legal obligations to support the children.”