Brangelina Suing Rupert Murdoch Newspaper For Allegedly Fabricating Story

3:58 pm EST February 8th, 2010 | Media | 2 Comments

Brangelina I’m no fan of the UK’s speech/press laws (or lack thereof) but I’m also no fan of people employed by Rupert Murdoch just making stuff up

Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie today began a privacy action against the News of the World over a story that alleged the couple were separating.

The News of the World claimed in a story last month that the pair, who met on the set of the film Mr & Mrs Smith in 2004, had visited a divorce lawyer in December and agreed to divide up their £205m fortune and custody of their six children.

Keith Schilling of Schillings, the couple’s London lawyers, said today: ‘The News of the World has failed to meet our clients’ reasonable demands for a retraction of 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.’

This is the same group of UK papers accused of tapping people’s phones last year.

Topic: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Rupert Murdoch

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2 Responses to “Brangelina Suing Rupert Murdoch Newspaper For Allegedly Fabricating Story”

merl says:

February 8, 2010 at 5:53 pm

does anyone actually care about those people?
abanterer says:

February 8, 2010 at 8:47 pm

I do now. Get em Brad!