Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt

Everyone's favourite Hollywood couple is calling it quits "for the health of the family."

By The Associated Press

September 20, 2016

FILE - In this Monday, July 19, 2010, file photo, cast member Angelina Jolie, right and Brad Pitt arrive at the premiere of "Salt" in Los Angeles. Jolie and Pitt were married Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, in France, according to a spokesman for the couple. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the Salt premiere in 2010. Photo, Matt Sayles/The Association Press.

Brangelina is no more. Angelina Jolie Pitt has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, bringing an end to one of the world's most star-studded, tabloid-generating romances.

An attorney for Jolie Pitt, Robert Offer, said Tuesday that she has filed for the dissolution of the marriage. Offer said the decision was made "for the health of the family." The couple has six children together: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.

Though together for 12 years, Pitt and Jolie only wed in August 2014. They married privately in the French hamlet of Correns in Provence with their children serving as ring bearers and throwing flower petals. They announced the ceremony days later.

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