Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Billy Bob Thornton

Associated Press | July 18, 2002

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Angelina Jolie, who recently admitted that she has not spoken to husband Billy Bob Thornton in at least a month, has filed for divorce, citing irreconciable differences.

The divorce papers were filed by Jolie on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The Oscar-winning couple, who have been married for two years, recently adopted an 11-month-old boy, Maddox, from Cambodia.

The papers were filed the same day Us Weekly's upcoming interview with Jolie was made public. In it, Jolie confirmed the couple was separated and was quoted as saying: "I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time.''

Regarding the split, Thornton, 46, issued a statement Thursday that said only: "It's a sad thing.'' Representatives of Jolie, 27, refused to comment further.

The pair's wild love life has been media fodder since they married in May 2000. They bragged about their sex lives in interviews, and at one time, they wore vials of each other's blood around their necks.

Both are Oscar winners; she won a best supporting actress award in 2000 for "Girl, Interrupted,'' and Thornton won best screenplay honors in 1997 for "Sling Blade.''

Jolie wed Thornton in Las Vegas after a whirlwind courtship. Thornton was dating actress Laura Dern when he became involved with Jolie. It was Thornton's fifth marriage and her second.

Jolie and Thornton have been separated since June 3, according to the court papers. The actress requested the right to keep miscellaneous jewelry and all of her earnings since they married.

Jolie told Us Weekly magazine in its July 29-Aug. 5 double issue, on newsstands Friday: "Sometimes, you don't see things coming, even though they are happening. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems.''

Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, has remained at home with 11-month-old Maddox after adopting him this spring. Jolie said her husband was more focused on his budding singing career; he recently went on tour to support his album, released last September.

Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

[alisasny]

I am trying real hard here...

Which one woke up one morning and realized the other was a freak?

LOL

[Bahbah]

They speed through the adoption process because they are rich and famous, not because anyone is checking to see whether they will be good parents. It seems as though these celebs pick up these children as status symbols. So very wrong.

[goldstategop]

How long before Julia Roberts and new beau get tired of each other?? ;-)

[Wrigley]

I bet she's glad she got that tatoo.

[Clara Lou]

Thornton is only 46? Wow. I knew he was a kook back when he was married to his former wife. They lived in a circular house in New Mexico, I think. Lots of things in the house, that aren't usually, were round also. Thornton was giving a tour of their home for some TV show. Something magical about the shape, he said-- New Age, I guess.

[cmsgop]

$10 He Cheated !!!!!

[Clara Lou]

Since he can't make pretty music like Lyle, I give them 3 more months.

[SamAdams76]

Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations...

Good gawd!

Wonder what will become of the Cambodian baby. With seven marriages between the two of them, can you think of a more unctuous couple?

[operation clinton cleanup]

hmmmm I like the way she talks...

[goldstategop]

Yup.... she was hot as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. Her real life father by the way is the actor Jon Voight.

[Tijeras_Slim]

That lasted about 23 months longer that I thought.

[Utopia]

The Oscar-winning couple, who have been married for two years

Good Lord, that's hardly a commitment, is it? My internet provider wants me to sign up for 3 years or more (better rates ...)

[operation clinton cleanup]

I have a car that used to be owned by John Voight!

[Argus]

This item was juxtaposed in my paper today with a piece on Art Linkletter celebrating his 90th birthday. The two men have much in common. Linkletter and his wife have been married 66 years. Billy Bob's been married 66 times.

[stlrocket]

Here's a picture that shows what she is really like.

ANGELA JOLIE WAITING FOR YOU AT A CHEAP HOTEL

[cmsgop]

It's a Pencil in the Glove Box with Bite Marks I Bet!

[Norman Conquest]

Class will tell.

[APBaer]

"I have a car that used to be owned by John Voight!"

You could tell by the dental floss?