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 On March 28, 1996 she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers.
Jolie attended her wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had her groom's name painted in her blood on the back. Jolie and Miller subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love (most famously wearing one anothers' blood in vials around their necks), their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Jolie still has good relationships with both of her former husbands.
Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Jolie said "If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!" Jolie has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu. "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her."
In early 2005, Jolie found herself in the middle of a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the "other woman" in the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. However, in several interviews she has denied starting an affair with Pitt. In an interview with Marie Claire, she stated that she "could not look at herself in the mirror" if she had an affair with a married man, because she has seen what relationships like that did to her mother. Her father has acknowledged that he cheated on Jolie's mother when they were married.
While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented about the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005.
The first intimate paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; the now-famous pictures show Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. Us Weekly bought the North American rights of these images for $1 million reportedly. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together increasingly frequently and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple now, dubbing them "Brangelina". Pitt visited Jolie in New York where she filmed The Good Shepherd and he was photographed taking care of both of her children. Jolie also traveled to Edmonton, Canada where Pitt filmed scenes for his movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
On January 11, 2006 Jolie confirmed to People magazine that she is pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirming their relationship for the first time in public.
In the following months the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story The Brangelina fever; among others, there were several false wedding rumors including an alleged imminent wedding in Laglio, Italy that was even further ignited by the local mayor and was picked up by many noted news services like the Associated Press and the BBC. |