Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are suing the News of the World over allegations it published about their relationship, their London lawyers said on Monday.
In a story published on January 24, the weekly newspaper reported that the couple planned to separate imminently and had agreed on how they would divide their assets and custody of their children. Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, have six children and joint assets estimated by the News of the World at 205 million pounds.
Schillings law firm described the allegations as “false” and has taken its case to the High Court in London.
Keith Schilling of Schillings said the News of the World failed to meet the couple’s “reasonable demands” for a retraction of the story and apology “for these false and intrusive allegations which have now been widely republished by mainstream news outlets.
“We have advised them to bring proceedings which they have now done,” he added in a statement.
The movie stars, who are not married, appeared together in public at Sunday’s Super Bowl professional football championship in the US, smiling, laughing and being photographed.
Meanwhile, Jolie on Monday visited Haitian children being treated in the neighbouring Dominican Republic after the devastating earthquake in their homeland killed more than 200,000 people.
Oscar-winner Jolie toured the pediatric wing of Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo, a leading local trauma hospital, with its director Hector Quezada, the hospital said.
Jolie, who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, was also joined by Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, the head of the UNHCR team for Haiti and the Dominican Republic and a son of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
The actress and her partner, actor Brad Pitt, donated a million dollars to Doctors without Borders in Haiti following the January 12 quake, the worst natural disaster on record in the Americas.
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