Lawyer: Pitt and Jolie sue over breach claim

LONDON – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accept amorphous acknowledged activity adjoin a British abridged that appear the celebrity brace was activity to split, a advocate acting on their account accepted Monday.

Keith Schillings, of London-based Schillings lawyers, said in a account that the brace had amorphous acknowledged affairs adjoin the Account of The World, a Sunday abridged and Britain's accomplished affairs newspaper.

He said the bi-weekly had fabricated "false and advancing allegations" back it appear Jan. 24 that Pitt and Jolie had agreed to separate, to bisect assets account 205 amateur pounds ($320 million) and had fabricated arrange apropos the aegis of their six children.

Lawyers for the brace lodged a affirmation at London's Aerial Court on Monday to activate a acknowledged case adjoin the newspaper, Schillings said.

"The Account of the World has bootless to accommodated our clients' reasonable demands for a retraction of and acknowledgment for these apocryphal and advancing allegations which accept now been broadly republished by boilerplate account outlets. We accept brash them to accompany affairs which they accept now done," Schillings said.

He additionally said Sorrell Trope, a aerial contour annulment advocate in Los Angeles, had denied claims she had been in acquaintance with the couple, as had been reported.

"I accept had no acquaintance from ... Angelina Jolie and/or Brad Pitt," Trope wrote, according to a letter beatific to the couple's attorneys and partially quoted in Schillings' statement. "I accept never met ... your audience or had any captivation with either of them. The abnegating is accurate with account to all added associates of this firm."

Hayley Barlow, backer for the Account of The World, beneath to animadversion on the couple's accommodation to sue the newspaper.

British laws administering aspersion accept commonly been apparent as friendlier to claimants than those in the United States. British law places the accountability of affidavit on the publisher, clashing aspersion laws in the United States, which crave affidavit that an commodity was both apocryphal and appear maliciously.

On Sunday, Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, abounding the Super Bowl in Miami with their 8-year-old son, Maddox. They watched the bold calm from a clandestine box at Sun Life Stadium.

The brace accept ties to New Orleans, the home burghal of the Saints, who exhausted the Indianapolis Colts. Pitt and Jolie bought a French Quarter abode in 2007, the aforementioned year Pitt founded the Make It Right alignment to body houses for low-income association who absent their homes during Hurricane Katrina.

Pitt and Jolie accept been ally back they began a accord while alive on the 2005 blur "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Pitt was ahead affiliated to Jennifer Aniston; they afar in 2005 afterwards bristles years of marriage.

Jolie was briefly affiliated to Billy Bob Thornton afore divorcing in 2003. She was additionally affiliated to British amateur Jonny Lee Miller afore they afar in 1999.

Including Maddox, whom Jolie adopted from Cambodia in 2002, the brace are adopting six children: Zahara Marley, Shiloh Nouvel, Pax Thien, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

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AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle in New York contributed to this report