"Scandalous tell-all" book

Pot-puffing Pitt & paranoid Jolie on road to breakup amid loud & 'scary' fights

Hollywood's most glamorous couple is headed for Splitsville, according to a blockbuster book, "Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie" (Transit), out Tuesday. Author Ian Halperin, who spoke to 900 sources to build a "true picture" of the pair, talked exclusively to The Post about his most sensational findings.

It was 2004, just weeks before shooting was to begin on the action flick "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," when Angelina Jolie happened to visit the set of the hit show "Friends."

"Brad is so excited to be working with you," Jennifer Aniston told her husband's new co-star. "I hope you guys have a really good time."

They certainly did. Less than a year later, Brad Pitt and Jolie would pose for W magazine in a spread called "Domestic Bliss." Real-life romance soon followed, as modern Hollywood's most famous love triangle played out in the tabloids. Eventually, Pitt would leave Aniston and take up with Jolie, jetting to red carpets and orphanages around the world.



It was the electrifying love-making that brought Brangelina together, says Halperin, who followed the couple for five years to prepare to write his book. "Brad had never had such incredible sex," Halperin says. "My sources say that they sometimes spent 18 to 20 hours a day in bed. But sex eventually wears off."

ESCALATING TENSIONS

Now, Halperin claims, the couple "argues like cats and dogs -- everything from politics to clothes the kids wear and Brad's 'atrocious habit,' which includes pot smoking and alcohol."

"I talked to several people in Brad's family who wished they'd break up today. They're scared for Brad's safety and his well-being," he says.

A limo driver who drove Brangelina frequently witnessed them "going at it in the back seat" twice and saw a "U-turn" in their relationship in 2007.

"I was more worried about his safety than hers," the driver says. "She really flew off the handle, threatening him and lashing out at him. I can't imagine how anyone would want to be with her every day, no matter how sexy she is. She has a temper like a cobra."

A woman who worked with Pitt while he was filming "Troy" told Halperin: "They were definitely in love, but that's where it gets tricky. If you want to know if they're still together, the answer depends on when you ask the question.

"I've heard that they've broken up so many times it would make your head spin.

"There are apparently screaming matches, usually with her doing the screaming. Nobody really witnesses that part of it -- they just see him leaving in a huff. But then he ends up coming back again, and nobody knows what happened to bring him back."

CHEATING AND DRUGS

Pitt may have cheated on Jolie, according to Halperin's book.

The most persistent story that crops up time and again involves Pitt and a beautiful Sudanese model, Amma, whom he met at a benefit for Darfur at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. He was seen with her at least one more time. Jolie has allegedly accused Pitt of cheating on her on more than one occasion, which is one of the reported sources of tension between the two, Halperin writes.

Another tension is Pitt's pot use, the book states. According to a well-known Hollywood journalist, "[Pitt and Aniston] spent much of their married life stoned. But whereas he was chilled out, she could get pretty paranoid."

A woman who works for an industry publication says his drug use will give Jolie an easy way to explain their split, when it inevitably happens: "They'll be split within 18 months, probably sooner," she told Halperin.

"And here's how it's going to play out. They're going to split amicably, work out some kind of arrangement with the kids, and everything will be very civilized. Then you're going to see unidentified friends leak stories how Angelina couldn't put up with Brad's partying and drinking and his pot smoking. She's worried about the kids, and she's afraid it's not the right environment for them. Maybe he'll even take part of the blame and go along with that.

'MANIPULATOR' JOLIE

Halperin claims that Pitt's biggest problem with Jolie is her controlling nature. "She won't let [Pitt] out of the house alone," he said. "She's very guarded about him. I don't think she's evil, but she's manipulative, deceiving and cunning."

She has even spread lies about love rival Aniston to make herself look better in the public eye, Halperin claims.

It happened when Jolie first met and fell for Pitt on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." At the time, he was still married to Aniston -- and Jolie feared she'd be branded a homewrecker, Halperin said. So Jolie leaked a story about Aniston, claiming that the "Friends" star didn't want children but wanted to focus on her career -- and this was the reason her marriage had ended, the book states.

By now, Jolie was an accomplished veteran at what one publicist called "misdirection" -- deflecting a crisis by changing the subject.

"It was Angelina who came up with the whole story about Jennifer not wanting to have kids," a source connected to 20th Century Fox, which produced "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," said. "She was convinced that is the story that would resonate with all these women who saw her as a man-stealing bitch."

Pitt was furious when he heard about the mean-spirited whisper campaign that his new girlfriend was spreading about his ex-wife. He ordered Jolie to stop the rumors.

BABY HUNGER

Aniston, in fact, was thought to be pregnant twice during her marriage -- both times ending in miscarriage, in 2003 and 2004, according to Halperin.

Pitt and Aniston even built a dream nursery at their Beverly Hills mansion.

She had already designated a large, light-filled space in the corner of the couple's Beverly Hills mansion as a nursery for their expected baby, Halperin writes. Aniston supervised its transformation from beginning to end during the extensive renovation process.

"It wasn't just a room where you'd stick a crib and a mobile," a contractor said. "It was quite elaborate, and she had very specific ideas about it."

"They never decorated it as I saw, though," explained the contractor. "We're talking 2003. Maybe they were waiting to know whether the baby would be a boy or a girl."

THE NANNY DIARIES

Brangelina, of course, is now famous for their growing brood; they have six children, three adopted and three biological.

Although it is widely agreed the couple loves their children, they aren't entirely honest about the number of people they've hired to help raise them.

Jolie and Pitt employ a "multicultural" team of nannies to care for their young brood, Halperin writes. In fact, the children often spend more time with those nannies than they do with their parents, who spend weeks at a time shooting films and on goodwill trips, sometimes with a child or two in tow but never with all of them.

A hotel employee at the Dorchester Hotel in London once overheard 3-year-old Shiloh refer to one of her nannies as "Mommy," Halperin writes.

The employee also observed celebrity efforts to broadcast an image of a happy family.

"There's sometimes as much of a production involved in avoiding the wrong shot as there is in making a movie," she confided.

"Stars will never allow the nanny to be photographed with their kids. . . Sometimes you'll even have the nanny crouched down in the back seat of a car. It's quite comical."


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Guys, be prepared for serious media attacks on Angelina in weeks to come

it is sooooo typical for the media....

...they always hype everthing! ...i mean it is normal that a couple fights someday about different things. but the media says: They are always fighting
...and so on and so on....brad and angelina are doing a great job. and they are such a strong couple! years of media-lies and they're still together!
why they don't write about that?


....i don't like that!

Those people are really grouse!

why they don't leave them alone...i mean they are doing so much great things for the world..and the thank you a book full of shit....

it is sickening but this is just the way society an paparazzi an others make money an it only makes matters worse honestly people need time to themselves an time to talk things out we all have good times an bad times an life but the media likes to capture the bad an very rarely or at all for that matter likes to present the good times obviously this is what they see as what sells sad but true

Angelina Jolie wrecks families! Adoptions just a gimmick?Shocking new revelations!


A new book has disclosed some sinful secretive desires of Hollywood’s dazzling beauty Angelina Jolie that, hitherto, had lain buried in the inner chambers of her heart. Ian Halperin who has penned the tell-all book ‘Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’, reveals that the sexy brunette was a ****** and before meeting Brad Pitt on the sets of ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’, she was contemplating dating other big names of the tinseltown.


The Lara Croft star who is extremely sexy and seductive, also is flirtatious and has a fetish for married men. The 34-year old drop-dead gorgeous lady likes to hook up with older and married men. “She said she wanted to go after either Bill Clinton or Johnny Depp,” writes Halperin in his book that hit the bookstores recently. This is a shocking revelation as it puts a question mark over her character. The actress with ‘A Mighty Heart’ who adopts orphans and grabs the limelight and people’s blessings for her generosity and charity-oriented heart; how can she justify her actions when she goes about wrecking families, as in the case of Brad-Jenny.
Her lust for men may make them run after her like hungry pack of dogs, but it certainly makes her character dubious. So, are all her antics of charity work & adoption-work just a gimmick to mask her inner devilish face?


Tell me what you think about this?

The Only way i can answer this in my deepest opinion is no she doesnt do anything to mask evil cause shes not. I Mean Love for an instant is not planned an ya never choose who ya fall in Love with it just happens an she didnt hold anyone hostage an say take me or else Brad choose her an did what he did both are responsible an things like this happen in life just when a star does it . It becomes more of a well your suppose to be the superstar model when all any of us are is just human beings So i wouldnt worry about any of that stuff really id just laugh an keep living shes fine an everyone goes through these certain things an if not then okie as well but shes not devilish Shes just doin what her heart says she has my support

you're so damn right

Guys, I warn you, this is not for those with weak stomach. Ian Halperin is assaulting again!


Brangelina is no more... Now there is only Brand-gelina, says Hollywood's leading insider

By IAN HALPERIN


Falling apart? Brad Pitt, sporting a goatee beard for a new film role, and Angelina Jolie in New York last month
Early evening last summer at Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Los Angeles mansion. An army of multicultural nannies has put the couple's six children to bed and the staff - ever fearful of ferocious rows between the two - are hoping for a calm night.
Pitt is relaxing in his bedroom, smoking cannabis and listening to reggae. In her separate suite, Jolie is reading a classic novel.
Then it begins, as it has so many times. The screaming and swearing. The wild accusations of affairs on both sides - Jolie with a young actress, Pitt with an African model.
It is the latest in a series of rows sometimes so loud and abusive that the staff have felt obliged to remove the children from the house.

That the pair would be in the same house at all is a surprise to those in their inner circle. Many assumed the once-golden couple would split two years ago, but they decided to give their relationship another go.
Time and again, Jolie, 34, has made dire threats over what she would do if 46-year-old Pitt left. Time and again, he has returned even if, as friends suggest, his health is suffering.
If the enforced closeness was supposed to rekindle one of the most talked-about romances on the planet, it has failed. If anything, it has fuelled the couple's mutual hatred. The relationship was rickety before; now it is a shell, a facade to protect the double A-list Brangelina brand.
'Brad has called Angie names not worth repeating on many occasions during the past few months,' a close friend of Pitt said. 'He's fed up. I have always said that they'd split sooner or later. It appears it will be sooner.'
The couple planned to take a holiday with their children to the Caribbean early this year. According to a friend, they cancelled plans after a huge falling-out last month. 'They have barely been together since,' the friend said.
Pitt, bruised by the rows with Jolie, has been spending time with actress and producer Drew Barrymore, although it is unclear whether their heart-to-hearts amount to romance or just comfort and counselling.
The only thing that has so far stopped Pitt and Jolie from permanently splitting was not the question of how their £200million fortune would be divided, but lawyers' negotiations over who would get custody of the children.
News of those negotiations surfaced a fortnight ago in a flurry of newspaper stories and internet gossip. Anonymous sources then countered by insisting the discussions were merely to draw up an agreement to be used in the event of the couple breaking up. Last week, there was still silence over the allegation.

The lawyers were discussing division of their wealth and custody of their family, so the rebuttal carries an element of truth. But the split is not hypothetical - it will be soon.
I can confirm that a deal has now been done, but do not expect an announcement from their lawyers. Instead, Pitt will follow the strategy used by his close friend Guy Ritchie when he and Madonna split in 2008 - silence for months, then a sudden official announcement of divorce.
That pattern has certainly been played out so far. Jolie's manager Geyer Kosinski, usually swift to kill rumours, has been strangely reticent.
A close friend of the couple told me that any attempt to dampen down news of the 'split' should be taken with a pinch of salt.
'No one close to them has gone on record to deny anything. The couple are finished,' said the friend.
Whenever the statement comes, Jolie is already mapping her future. By the time the break-up is formally made public, she will have her eyes on a new man. As in the past, it is likely to be someone already in a marriage or attached. Jolie's romantic ambitions now run far beyond showbusiness.
Instead, she wants someone more worldly, more serious. Like Carla Bruni, who abandoned dalliances with pop musicians for the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jolie sees herself on the arm of someone on the world stage.
No longer the troubled teenage bad girl, Jolie has cleaned up her act, at least for public consumption. The image she paints for herself is saintly but still sexy, an haute couture humanitarian.
There are only two role models she now wishes to emulate - Jackie Onassis and Diana, Princess of Wales. A close friend says Jolie believes she can be this era's Diana. She told me: 'She thinks she can be a similarly powerful and charismatic figure in global political circles.'
Jolie is a generous benefactor of charities, a human-rights campaigner and a UN goodwill ambassador. She is determined and - certainly by Hollywood standards - ferociously intelligent. Now, she believes, is her time.
I am an undercover investigator and author. By pretending to be a hairdresser, I inveigled myself into Michael Jackson's inner circle, becoming the first person to predict his death, six months before the tragedy.
Jackson's people were often talkative, revealing strange stories about him. Jackson never challenged the gossip, concluding that the weirdness merely added to his mystique.
By comparison, the Brangelina image is tightly policed. Mr Kosinski controls everything. The only 'leaks' are authorised by him. Breaking into Team Brangelina, I soon found, was going to be a harder nut to crack than Jackson.
I got my big break in the summer of 2008 while mingling with the paparazzi outside Chateau Miraval in Provence, where Jolie was spending the last few days of her pregnancy.
Has Jolie set her sights on Clinton?
When journalists chased her to the Nice hospital where she gave birth to twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, I stayed put. It gave me the opportunity to befriend one of her inner circle at the chateau - the start of a connection that yielded many of the stories that appear in my book Brangelina, published late last year.
In it, I predicted that their relationship would not last, riven as it was by vicious fights. I was told that Jolie was nervous about what the book would say about the couple. But even I was surprised by how she reacted, showing once again that she is a mistress of the dark arts of spin.
Rather than denying everything, Jolie decided to outflank me, declaring to Das Neue, a German magazine, that she didn't believe fidelity was essential for a relationship.
'Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together,' she said. 'We make sure that we never restrict each other.'
She appeared to be confirming that she had an open relationship with Pitt, something her inner circle had talked about for years. It was the beginning of a campaign to prepare the public for an eventual split.
She also admitted she got so angry with Pitt that she sometimes tore his shirt. The remark was perhaps an echo of the behaviour that first attracted Pitt to Jolie, whom he met when they started filming the thriller Mr & Mrs Smith in 2003.
Pitt was captivated by the wild sex he enjoyed with Jolie. It was, as one friend put it, less of the Kama Sutra and more a carnal version of the Cirque du Soleil. They often stayed in bed for 18 to 20 hours at a time.
A limousine driver told me: 'I used to drive them both all the time.' In the beginning of their public relationship, he recalled, they were affectionate. Twice he said he saw them 'going at it in the back seat'.
By 2007, however, the mood had changed. They once had an altercation in the car, with Jolie the more violent of the two. 'She really flew off the handle, threatening him and lashing out at him. She has a temper like a cobra.'
A woman who worked with Pitt while he was filming Troy also talked of tempestuous scenes.
'Apparently it's always him that ends up moving out,' she said. 'But then he ends up coming back, and nobody knows what happened to bring him back.

'Partly, I think he really does love her. Partly, he considers them a family, and he loves that element of it. He's supposed to be a great dad with those kids. And partly, there's the whole Brangelina thing.
'If you knew Brad, he's very earnest. But then again, I don't know how he can handle her crazy temper.'
From the start of her career, Jolie had proven a smooth media operator, wriggling out of potential PR disasters that would have flattened lesser personalities. In 2000, she publicly outed her affair with the actor and writer Billy Bob Thornton - usefully quashing rumours of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven, which they have both denied.
The gossip about Jolie's brother had started when she kissed him passionately at the Oscars ceremony at which she won best supporting actress for Girl, Interrupted. I discovered that she was also seen kissing Haven at other events, including the Golden Globes.
If one taboo remains in Hollywood, it is incest. After the story broke, studio executives threatened to blacklist Jolie, so she suddenly announced her affair with Thornton.
Angelina has two role models: Jackie Onassis and Diana, Princess of Wales
When more problems threatened her two years later, she used misdirection to get out of another scrape, deflecting accusations that she bought her adopted son Maddox from his destitute mother in Cambodia. This time, she declared she and Thornton had split. Changing the subject again won the day.
Jolie certainly needed all the skills she could muster in 2004, when rumours first swirled that she was having an affair with Pitt. He was married to Jennifer Aniston, and his new lover did not want to be seen as a home-wrecker.
Aniston was painted as a woman who did not want to give Pitt children. 'Insiders claim Pitt's desire to start a family and his wife's reluctance to give up her career have caused intolerable pressures,' wrote one newspaper. By 2005, Pitt and Aniston had announced their break-up.
'It was Angelina who came up with the whole story about Jennifer not wanting to have kids,' said a source connected to the publicity department at Fox. 'She was convinced the story would resonate with women who saw her as a man-stealing bitch.'
There are indications that neither Pitt nor Jolie has been committed to monogamy. Two members of Pitt's family and someone in Jolie's inner circle who sees her almost every day have told me that he has for months been accusing her of infidelity.
A 21-year-old actress with connections to the entertainment industry has been saying that she has had a two-year affair with Jolie - a relationship corroborated by emails.
Friends say Jolie has had at least a dozen lovers - male and female - over the past four years. Then there is Jenny Shimizu, the boyish Japanese-American actress with whom Jolie had an affair on the set of Foxfire in the mid-Nineties.

Shimizu said in 2007: 'She's always had lovers that she relies on.
'If she can ring you and you can meet, then she can take care of her sexual needs. Whenever she calls me, I visit her.'
Pitt has turned to other women, too - a source of further clashes with Jolie. His name has frequently been linked with the beautiful Sudanese model Amma, whom he met at a Darfur benefit at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. He was seen with her on at least one other occasion.
After my book's publication, Jolie and Pitt seemed to be constantly photographed with their children. They were together with their daughter Shiloh, three, and their adopted daughter Zahara, five, on the set of the movie Salt, starring Angelina, in New York. Pitt was also seen with his sons Pax, six, and Maddox, eight, at a New York restaurant.
I expect to see further such photo opportunities over the next few weeks as the couple try to calm the storm while the lawyers iron out the minor details of their separation.
Of course, there is no way Pitt and Jolie could spend so much time with their children without help. Indeed Shiloh was heard to refer to one of her nannies as 'Mommy' within earshot of a staff member at The Dorchester hotel in London.
This is not to suggest that Pitt or Jolie are anything other than good parents. The children are the one thing that has stopped Pitt walking out already. He is at heart a simple country boy, certainly not as cunning as Jolie, and is content to revel in family life. He is an honourable man and is determined to be with them.
It was that insistence that held up the settlement of their split. Pitt initially wanted full custody at least of their biological children - Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox. Equally, Jolie wanted to be their sole custodian.
Now it has been agreed that the couple will have joint custody of all the children. Pitt and Jolie will be required to live in close proximity and be jointly involved in decision-aking.
The other thing preventing Pitt leaving her is a genuine concern for the effect it would have on Jolie's health.
For most of her life, Jolie has suffered from emotional instability. She has said she contemplated suicide several times as a child, and later when she lived in New York she planned to end her life with a knife or pills but couldn't go through with it.
In 2000, she was admitted to the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital in California. Hospital insiders said at the time: 'She was very angry and thought she might kill herself if she wasn't treated.'
A woman who worked on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith claims Jolie is erratic. 'Everybody who's seen her knows what I mean,' she told me. 'She's not unpleasant. Just erratic.'
The unpredictable behaviour has continued. In the spring of 2009, Jolie was reported to have collapsed on the set of Salt. Photos emerged showing her looking unnaturally skinny. The explanation given was that she had been on a 'liquid detox' diet that had left her weak.

I spoke to a senior member of the Salt crew who saw the incident. 'I wouldn't call it a collapse,' he told me. 'There was an episode.'
It is Pitt, however, who has suffered the most during his five years with Jolie. He appears to have aged at least 20 years. Friends say there is never a day when he doesn't stare at his paunch in the mirror. One insider says: 'Look at a photo of him four years ago and look at him now. He is ragged.'
A ecade ago, it would be hard to find a young woman who wouldn't admit she'd like to sleep with Brad Pitt. Few will say the same of the lumpy figure seen in Manhattan recently.
Then there is the long goatee beard, which he is growing for a new role. At a distance, it gives the impression of an old man who has dribbled food over his chin.
The decline in Pitt's appearance is mirrored, according to insiders, by deteriorating health and the fact that he smokes cannabis more than ever.
Friends of Pitt remark that at the start of each of Jolie's big relationships she was the junior partner in terms of celebrity, but by the end emerged as the bigger name. It is almost as if she has taken a transfusion of fame and then abandoned her men.
As members of her family have said: 'She takes them and she runs them into the ground. That's her modus operandi.'
The love between Pitt and Jolie may be long gone, but the financial chemistry of two big names entwined is still worth millions. As one of Pitt's relatives put it: 'Brangelina is no more. Now there is only Brand-gelina.'
Saddest of all, Pitt has confessed to friends that if he could turn back time, he would have stayed with Jennifer Aniston. That speculation was heightened when Pitt and Aniston separately attended a Haitian fundraising concert in Los Angeles last month.
But there is no hope of his getting back with Aniston, who has declared that she wouldn't sleep with him again after he'd bedded Jolie, even if he wore six condoms.
Jolie's thoughts are now moving far beyond the end of her relationship with Pitt and on to the next phase. She is 34, sharp and icily glamorous, the sullen, gothic looks she had in her 20s replaced by a classic elegance more in keeping with a Diana-obsessed social climber.
Jolie has always been drawn to married men or those already in a relationship. Despite attempts to portray herself otherwise, she has been a home-wrecker. This psychological flaw has been put down to her tempestuous relationship with her divorced father, the actor Jon Voight. Some say Jolie feels the need to prove she can possess any man.
It is also clear that she needs someone to care for her, despite her dominating ways. The affairs that have caused such ructions in her household are sideshows. She will be looking for a man to elevate her status beyond bad-girl-turned-good to a 21st Century People's Princess.
So who might she have set her sights on? Here speculation tilts into the fanciful. Some insiders suggest Bill Clinton, or even, bizarrely, Prince William.
Whoever she chooses, we can be sure that the passing of the super-couple known as Brangelina will not be an end for Angelina Jolie - just a new chapter in the story. Never underestimate her.

2010 Ian Halperin