Agree with most of what you said except the following comment, part of it is fact (that Angelina is a home-wrecker) and part is opinion(that Jennifer makes shitty movies). I, along with many others I know, think she makes some good movies and some bad ones just like all other actors. I’d say she makes more good than bad. So why are you bashing her? As for her dating John Mayer, well again you may not care for John Mayer but why bash her?

Oh and Angelina has made mostly crap (TR1, Life or Something Like it, Gone is 60 Seconds, Beyond Borders, Original Sin) films. She only get a hit when she’s holding a gun. But if you want to call that strength fine. Yes she won an Oscar ten years ago for playing herself, but she has also won a whole lot of well deserved Razzies too.

I agree whole heartedly! But I do want to say that Brad’s image has been tarnished… I don’t like him anywhere near as much as I did when he was married to Jennifer… and a lot of women I know feel the same way. He lost his sexiness when he showed that he’s just another cheating man who doesn’t keep his vows!

I wasn’t a big fan of Brads before the “triangle” began. I dislike him even more now. His only big hit movies are with an ensemble cast. Angelina is the complete opposite. She can not star in an ensemble because no one in Hollywood likes her except men that are spoken for and or lesbians. The reason Jennifer doesn’t have a man in her life is because she has TOO many friends. How does she have time for anyone. Her life is full she doesn’t need one. Once burned twice shy.

There’s obviously a lot of weak-minded people who feel the need to assess blame on a situation that is absolutely NONE OF OUR BUSINESS!!

…No one has the right to judge ANYONE’S personal life. Movie stars are not exempt, so I think everyone should just get a grip and look at their OWN lives!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has given us many hours of enjoyment on the big screen, and Jennifer Aniston played the hell out of that character on FRIENDS. They don’t owe us ANYTHING but their artistic best in FRONT of the camera. DIVORCES HAPPEN! All this demonization of people we don’t know, and situations we don’t have the FACTS about is pathetic. CHECK YOURSELVES.

I will see ANYTHING Brad or Angie or Jen do…so long as its good. And lets hope they all continue to do good for others with their celebrity.

Why blame Brad? ….He is the ONLY MAN who actually asked Jen to marry him instead of just “hit it and quit it” like Vince Vaughn, Tate Donovan, Paul Sculfor, and John ‘the playa’ Mayer!

How come Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock got away with getting hooked up with married men with children, but everyone goes on and on about Angelina Jolie?

We all know why the media doesn’t and didn’t write tons of stories on the Pitt angle – the simple fact is that gossip is marketed to women and women like nothing better than to rag on other women. Which I am about to do.

It’s always more than obvious to me when the person proffering their opinion on this never-ending triangle doesn’t know anything about the state of the Pitt/Aniston marriage BEFORE he ever met Jolie. In an interview done 9 months before Pitt ever met Jolie Aniston stated that Pitt was NOT the love of her life. This was during a period that many “gossip” observers referred to as a trial separation for Pitt and Aniston. They were apart for nearly 6 months while Pitt filmed Troy in Malta and Mexico. During this time Aniston gave the aforementioned interview and only visited Pitt on 2 occasions – for 1 week each and during one of those times he injured himself on her treadmill the production of the movie had to be halted. Still, when a couple voluntarily spends 6 months apart without making an effort to see one another? That’s called a CLUE.

Secondly, the year after they married Aniston said the first year of their marriage was the worst and most difficult year of her life. That same year Pitt referred to their as a “merger” and said that he Aniston were in it “for as far as THIS THING takes us.” Two years later he sat on the Opra Winfrey show and stated things were not a bed of roses with him and Aniston and he hated the fact that she routinely threw him out of their house so she could gather her girlfriends together and tell them all of their problem, get the girlfriends advice and then read him the riot act when he came home. He asked her to stop doing that and she didn’t. This is a grown woman, well into her 30s, who couldn’t respect her husband’s wishes and stop telling her 4 best friends every intimate detail of their lives. Several months later Pitt was on the Charlie Rose show and stated that he and Aniston didn’t have the same dreams or goals in life and that she didn’t understand him and he didn’t understand her anymore – they just flat-out wanted different things in life.

Knowing the background of the Pitt/Aniston marriage is crucial because a man cannot be “stolen” from a happy marriage. People in the gossip industry spent 2002-2003 speculating that a break-up was coming. Note that’s a full 2 years before Pitt ever met Jolie. The tabloids projected a “Golden Couple” image to the public, but there was NOTHING golden about their marriage. The fact that people were so ready to blame Angelina Jolie says a lot about how society thinks of “the other woman”. If you read Aniston’s 2005 Vanity Fair tell-all then you’ll know that her friends – that same gaggle of friends she regularly assembled to eviscerate Pitt – stated clearly that Brad was honest with Aniston that he was attracted to Jolie. Courteney Cox said not only was he honest but that he fought it for a long time and ANISTON was FULLY AWARE OF HIS FEELINGS. So how is that “emotional cheating”? It’s not cheating when the person has been honest with their spouse. But here’s the kicker – after having been told about his attraction, ANISTON NEVER VISITED THE SET OF MR. & MRS. SMITH. ANISTON NEVER STOPPED CONDUCTING HER WEEKLY SESSIONS WITH HER GIRLFRIENDS TO NITPICK PITT. The evidence of that is the fact that she had her girlfriends speak on her behalf to Vanity Fair – where they clearly knew intimate details of the marriage and spoke freely about them.

Bottom line – Jennifer Aniston is the architect of her own misery. Her marriage was in trouble for 2 years before Jolie ever came into the picture. Pitt was fond of saying in interviews that he and Aniston ALWAYS put all their cards on the table so each knew where the other stood. Pitt was honest with Aniston. Aniston knew exactly how he felt about Jolie and the attraction he felt for her. In this same Vanity Fair interview yet another of Aniston’s friends said that when Pitt asked for a divorce Aniston wanted to stay married and offered to let him take time to figure out what he wanted. Here’s a man who has told his wife that he’s attracted to another woman – and her offer can clearly be interpreted as telling him to go have an affair and get it out of his system and she’ll be there waiting when he comes back. The only problem is – THAT’S NOT WHAT PITT WANTED. HE TOLD ANISTON THAT HE COULD NOT DO THAT AND DIDN’T WANT TO BE MARRIED WHILE HE SORTED OUT HIS FUTURE. SO HOW IS THAT CHEATING? I’ve long been of the opinion that Pitt should have hung Aniston out to dry. She knew the deal and yet she’s thrown a 4-year-long Pity Party and has made Angelina Jolie the fall guy. She should have been honest and told the world that there were problems long before Pitt met Jolie, but she didn’t. She chose to play the victim and now the entire world thinks Jolie “stole” Pitt when the fact of the matter is the man already had one foot out the door when they met.

You wanted to know why nobody’s pointing a finger at Pitt – well, look to the media. Instead of investigating the situation and looking at objectively people saw Angelina Jolie and figured SHE must be the culprit. I feel badly for Jolie because she’s gottan a raw deal out of this entire debacle. The only thing I fault Pitt for is not dumping Aniston in 2003 like he should have. Had he done that this whole sage would have been a moot point. Instead Jolie is the bad guy and Aniston is the most pitied multi-millionaire on the planet. Meanwhile Pitt and Jolie have 6 beautiful kids and two hot careers as A-list actors and are shaping up to be one of the greatest philanthropic couples in the world. Good for them. Some people know how to rise about the fray while others wallow in their own self-made misery and keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. You have to ask yourself – Aniston hasn’t been able to keep a man since Pitt and went through men like water BEFORE Pitt – therefore, maybe the problem is Aniston and NOT the men.

BTW – Just as an aside…Aniston has a very short memory. Once upon a time she was dating Tate Donovan and he thought they were still dating, but on a Ross/Rachel-type “break”. Only unbeknownst to him Aniston had her manager, a manager she shared with Pitt, set them up on a blind date. Two years later she got on the David Letterman show and BRAGGED about sleeping with Pitt on their first date. She moved him into her house within a week of meeting him. The only problem was – she didn’t tell Tate Donovan. Donovan found out when a reporter asked him what he thought about his ex dating Brad Pitt. That’s how he found out he and Aniston were no longer a couple – from a reporter on the street who blindsided him. ANISTON CHEATED ON TATE DONOVAN WITH BRAD PITT. She knew she’d never completely broken it off with Donovan, yet she moved Pitt into Donovan’s spot in her bed without even blinking. And THIS is a woman I’m supposed to feel sorry for? Please. Aniston set Pitt up and got away with it for 7 years. She’s damned lucky to have had that long with him when they clearly never had much in common to begin with. He loved architecture, photography, art, traveling and motorcylces. When they dated she said she loved modernist furniture. After he married her, suddenly she couldn’t stand it. Pitt was an incessant traveler, always poking around Europe. Aniston said she loved that, too…but after they got married she suddenly developed a fear of flying after 9/11 and would only go as far Mexico (and took the Cox-Arquettes with them everywhere they went). Pitt said he wanted AT LEAST 7 kids, Aniston said, “He’ll be lucky if he gets 2.” (I think he’s having the last laugh – he’s got 6 and counting.)

Meanwhile, Aniston loved tanning, smoking, making bad romcoms/her career, exercising and getting her highlights done. Four years after the divorce and Ansiton is STILL doing all of these things. And where’s Pitt today? Traveling the world with a woman who loves traveling as much as he does, has 6 kids and counting, he’s doing hands-on work with his love of architecture, both in New Orleans and as a partner in Graft LLC with 3 German architects, he’s branched out his philanthropic efforts (which he did quietly before and on a much smaller scale). My point is – Brad Pitt is living the life he said he wanted all those years ago when he was still dating Gwyneth Paltrow. And Aniston? She’s living the life she wants to live, too. The only difference is that Pitt is doing something with his life other than pitying himself and inviting the world to watch and cheer him on.

I agree that Brad’s rep may not have taken such a hit. I also believe that the MEDIA immediately “pitted” Jen & Angie against each other, ouch! I felt that since I was, at the time, both an Angelina and Jennifer fan. In my eyes, they’re both good at what they do. And I have truly admired them both as women for a long time & for very different reasons. But listen up folks, Brad found what seems to be his soul-mate & did so @ 40-ish years old. I say, don’t count Jen out just yet. She’s 40-ish now too. All of her life being played out like this in such a public arena, whether she asked for it or not, could not have been easy. Like she said in a recent interview, no matter what you say or when you say it, you’re damned if you do and if you don’t. And I for one don’t beleive that Jen threw herself a 4-year pity party. As a matter of fact, she laid so low in the beginning, it seemed to me that she might never talk about this triagle. I beleive that marriages, infidelities and eventually divorce happens. I am sure there’s lots of RESPONSIBILITY for let’s say, less than saavy choices & maybe some bad reactions too along the way for each party involved. The media never seems to help either!!! I would never want my life played out in such a way…Good luck to all involved. And may you all be able to move past this very lengthy, played out, awkward time with forgiveness in your hearts & hope for the future. Afterall, you are all blessed with healthy, active lifestyles with many, many fans the world over who wish the best for you and yours as well. Good luck to Brad & Angie with all your beautiful children! I am blessed with two of my own & a marriage that ALWAYS needs attention, whew. And to Jennifer, may all that you need, want & deserve come together with someone special, so you may share the best of each other and more as well.XOXOXO

I am not going to waste my time going into an in-depth discussion of how this
article and this misportrayal was completely spawned by ill-timed gossip.
Ill-timed for Pitt and well-timed for the media. It is also insane and absurd
how the media and public quickly threw out any accurate understanding of Pitt
and fixated on Jolie’s misunderstood past to damage their credibility. Anybody
who has observed, analyzed, and connected with Pitt over the past ten years would have understood that what a good, real, honest man he is…a rarity in Hollywood. It would also take tons of pages to discuss the perversity, hypocrisy, and fraudulence of our corrupt and twisted world, especially the
sleazy press and the duplicitious majority who jumped on a demented bandwagon
on the false premise of adultery against a great guy who would never committ
adultery.

Team Aniston was created by brainwashing and presuming the worst about a
man who never gave anybody just cause to mistrust him. He was not the first
man to be trapped in a misportrayal like this, just the first one to be
destroyed over a false accusation of infidelity because of the great manipulations of his calculating and coldhearted ex wife. The messy misportrayal
caused by the media linking a celeb to a desirable co-star, starting rumors,
when the marriage has shown signs of being on the rocks, and then the celeb
dating the co-star after the breakup despite the gossip…the media creates
a trap, there is a minor backlash against the celeb…but then the misunderstanding clears up, the public respects their denials, and then the
attacks & accusations eventually end. There have been many examples of this
but the most famous one is Tom, Nicole, and Penelope. There was the same
circumstances with the gossip and timing, and the media tried to blame Penelope.
Tom and Penelope respectfully denied this without going into too much detail.
Nicole could have easily played the victim card and destroyed their reputations.
She could have played into the hateful frenzy and turned the world against
him but she chose to trust and respect her exe’s denials. The homewrecker label
for Penelope expired many years ago. The public in regards to other celebs,
had the decency and courtesy to give the accused celebs the benefit of the doubt. With Pitt, oddly enough, our screwed-up society turned on him even before his romance with Jolie actually began, had lost a huge amount of his fans. Eventually it seemed the mania would subside and people would start
to think clearly of Pitt, of what they always thought of his personality
and character…and then those outrageous accusations would expire. It seemed
that Pitt and Jolie could rebound from those false allegations…then his
“sweetheart” of an ex would publicly play the victim card after using her
friends to talk trash covertly to the tabs and gosssip columns for months
and use dirty tactics to sell this powerful and potent false storyline. The
problem was just not with the media but with an ignorant world who had fallen
for Aniston’s false persona just as much as naive Pitt had.

There have been many cases of both real scandals and false scandals but none
of has caused such a crazy, cruel, and sick reaction from the masses. The
media created a cycle of deceit where can get away with so many lies, distortions, and misportrayals because they managed to sell that infamous
lie. Team Aniston is all about the corrupt, ignorant, and malicious posing
as moralistic. In the past, the sleazy press and foul Hollywood has condoned,
tolerated, and even glorified adultery. Then suddenly the media poses
as righteous, pretending to be so against adultery, when they try to bring
down a moral & grounded man over a false accusation of adultery. You people
are just as fraudulent and two-faced as Aniston. Most of you were apathetic or
even tolerant of the horrible sin of adultery before this wave of pseudo-
morality over a pseudo-scandal. Why have the tons of celebs who have actually
committed adultery never had to suffer through such a bias, such ugly spin,
and such hatred? Because the core of this is not about adultery…it is about
baseless hatred over a baseless lies going out of control. It is about
brainwashing and its evil power. It is about exploitation and manipulation.
It was shocking to see people just quickly believe that Pitt would ever cheat,
when everything about him contradicted that notion. Pitt emoted nothing but
sincerity yet people found it suddenly hard to believe him when other celebs
had been stuck in the same misunderstanding. The real adulterers like Russell
Crowe, Meg Ryan, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardener, Cary Grant,
and etc…there are too many examples, never had to suffer so much contempt.
If only the world was as moralistic as it is pretending to be. If you people
were genuine moralists, you would recognized that Pitt and Jolie were telling
the truth. You would have identified Pitt as a moral guy years ago and would
be able to recognize it when the media is selling a false story rooted in
lies.

This article is also playing on another false angle: This writer is lying
and distorting things by villifying Pitt and acting he is responsible for
Jolie’s wrecked reputation. He has suffered just as much, if not more,
hatred than Jolie. In fact, it was Jolie’s dark past that damaged his credibility and brought him down. It was Jolie who had the temptress image
and who got linked to every co-star. It was no suprise they would link her
to Pitt, especially since there had been buzz on about their marriage on
the rocks for years. Not everybody fell for the false golden couple image.
Some people could see that image could not be real with the poser and wannabe
as his wife. They understood their lack of connection and compatibility as
well as their behavior which pointed to them being in trouble. Pitt did nothing but enhance Aniston’s reputation and image. Aniston did nothing but benefit from her marriage to Pitt. 90% of the public jumped on the Team Aniston bandwagon because they fell for the spin. It is a big distortion and perversity to act like half of the world hates Aniston when that is the person most
people should abhor if they understood the truth.

Your false perspective and wrong attitude of the present is also displaying
a hindsight bias towards the past. Most of you adored Pitt before you got
manipulated into turning against him. Most of you adored and respected Pitt
way before Aniston came into the picture. He increased her status, popularity,
and power..you have to be delusional to think it was the other way around.
She became one of the most beloved woman in the world because she married one
of the most beloved men in the world. She became an A-lister, became America’s
Sweetheart, and got that Golden Girl image through Pitt. People had rightfully
fallen in love with Pitt because of his personality and appeal years before
Aniston. He played a role in improving both the career and images of both
Paltrow and Aniston. Both of those women would betray him. Aniston had a level
of popularity and fame because of FRIENDS, but it was on a much lower-scale.
Most of the fanbase was more about the show than about her. A lot of people
back then would claim to be FRIENDS fans but there weren’t too many people
who would say they were big Jennifer Aniston fans. The whole Faniston era
began with Pitt. Did the world really care about Aniston’s personal life,
her happiness, etc before Pitt came into the picture? She became the center
of affection and attention because she married Hollywood’s Golden boy
Pitt. Any actress Pitt would have chosen would have become Hollywood royalty.

There was a great discussion before about how Aniston and Pitt were incompatible. Any good judge of character could see Aniston was never the
woman she claimed to be. She is a pathetic social-climber who manipulates
and uses superior people to elevate her power. She married Pitt not because
of who he is but of what she could get out of the marriage. She emoted nothing
but insincerity and phoniess, showed such a lack of substance and lack
of authenticity yet the world just chose to believe her when she just basically
modified the tabloid version and misportrayal of events. I guess only a minority
could see she was no different from any other corrupt, shallow, egotistical,
fake, and manipulative actress in Hollywood. The minority liked Pitt and
connected to him because he was none of those things. He was the rare exception
and it was nice to have a good guy on top for a change. There were also many
signs of unhappiness and disrespect from Aniston. I knew she never loved the
guy and was just using him. If she cared about Pitt even a little bit, she
wouldn’t have shamelessly thrown him under the bus when it was advantageous
to her. Many actresses have those negative qualities but I think very few
would have taken it so far.

It is also ridiculous how people are not recognizing the control Aniston
has with the media, their favorable bias towards her. Practically every media
outlet would sink to the level of a tabloid, and sell the same version. No other
actor has ever dealt with such a bias where the media just flat-out refused
to believe them or even gave them the opportunity to explain their side of
the story. There is too much evidence to dissect and I don’t have the time.
It is demented how you are just taking Aniston and her cronies at their word and think she was telling the truth when I think she was not telling the truth
about anything. There were some big contradiction that should have exposed her.
Pitt defended her against the baby rumors yet she turns around and is despicable
enough to act like he spread that notion. She even got her friends to lie and
say that having kids was not a priority for him. She created the notion that
he was trying to ruin her reputation when he had been nothing but a class act
and a gentleman in regards to her. They called him diabolical and shady when
she was the one who was being diabolical and shady. Any long-time observer
of Pitt would know that he was family oriented and wanted kids. He expressed
that interest back when he was dating Paltrow. They would also know he was
politically and socially conscientious among posessing many other positive
attributes which would make them the ideal mate for any woman. Aniston never
expressed a traditional stance of mind when it came to marriage. She never
showed any public interest in children, was uncomfortable and insincere when
asked about it. Pitt had a traditional outlook on marriage before dating
Aniston. Then Aniston flips the switch and literally steals from Pitt. She
suddenly poses as the woman who yearns for children and believes in marriage
lasting forever. I can go and on with her contradictions.

Anybody who held on to an accurate understanding of Pitt and knew the facts
would know that Pitt is very moralistic and disapproves of infidelity. He
was one of the few actors who openly expressed how he was offended by that.
Pitt himself was cheated on explicitly twice. He was even the target of
emotional infidelity, a concept that Jennifer distorted, as well. Shalane
McCall dumped him and said she had fallen for somebody else, there was no
affair, but she had crossed the line emotionally. Jill Scholen, his first
fiancee, cheated on him with her director and exposed this horrible news
only a few days before their scheduled wedding. Gwyneth Paltrow cheated on
him with both Ethan Hawke and Harvey Weinstein. Pitt had been brutally
victimized multiple times yet he was protective of his exes. He was gracious,
dignified, and had no interest in people feeling sorry for him. Any person
who also followed him through the beginning of his career would also know
that he is a romantic purists. He places a great value, sanctity on love
and romance. He would never end a relationship over petty reasons and he
would engage in betrayal or deception. Trying to explain his breakup with
Aniston was years in the making and just was a mistake of marriage naturally
coming to close, is difficult, time consuming, and complex. Aniston turned
out to be very different from the woman he thought she was, they did not
share the same philosophies, interests, aspirations, and etc at all. They
both projected signs that the marriage was going to end years before those
rumors. Pitt also had been the target of rumors of infidelity after every breakup, it never made any serious headway until Aniston’s posse encouraged it.
There were no signs of caddish behavior from Pitt and no signs of him ever
cheating. Pitt’s word should have been good enough. Yet everybody on this
board is hanging on to Aniston’s damning lies when she is being so pathetically
fake and coldly vindictive.

The breakup was a mutual and amicable one, yet when Pitt later hooks up with
Jolie, she backtracks and behaves as if she were dumped and betrayed. They
issued a joint statement about the breakup. They both made considerate comments
about each other. She even stated that she loved and respected Pitt but they
were just not meant to be married along with other comments. He threw a birthday party for her. They went to an Oscar party and went to other events
together. He didn’t even move out immediately after the breakup. The breakup
occurred in December but they waited to annouce it to everyone after the
holidays. All signs of a peaceful breakup that occurred mutually. They didn’t
rush to get the legal process started which is common with amicable divorces.
If Pitt had actually made those allegedly incriminating comments about Jolie during their marriage or just “checked out” after he met Jolie liked her friends
claimed…the breakup would not have been an amicable one. She would have
trashed Pitt from the beginning and she would have filed for divorce under
infidelity. I also bet she distorted what he said and took it out of context.

Pitt said he didn’t cross the line and I know he never would or will cross the
line. Jennifer also managed to twist around the definiton of emotional infidelity. Saying somebody cheated because there was merely an attraction
is irrational and immature. We would all be considered cheaters and homewreckers then. Aniston was just as much as a flirt as Pitt and her
“friendship” with Matt LeBlanc and other men could easily be described as
inappropriate. Acting on an attraction is infidelity. Crossing the line
and becoming romantically involved with somebody is infidelity. There has
to be a direct correlation, with all of that gossip, it was easy for Aniston
to act like there was a direct correlation. I highly doubt Pitt ever made
those statements. She probably took out of context of how he described their
bond and how he enjoyed working together. Pitt is also a man of character and
conscience. It is important for him to be commendable in his behavior. Aniston
and her friends chose to presume about his state of mind during the marriage.
She displayed her complete lack of respect in Pitt when he had been nothing
but good and true to her. Aniston knew her position in Hollywood was under
threat without Pitt. Eventually the accusations would have died out and Jolie
would replace her as queen of Hollywood. Covering up the truth about the
marriage was covering up the truth about herself. She didn’t want to face the
truth about herself as to why the marriage really didn’t work out. She is
living a lie. Also, the last year of a marriage is when two people become
disconnected with each other. They know things are going to end so they
quit trying to work things out. Pitt could have easily dumped Aniston years
ago but he waited until that sentiment was mutual. He is intimidated by Aniston and I don’t even think he would have had the guts to just dump her. It was
easy just to point the finger to Jolie because they met a year before their
marriage ended. A lot of decent celebs including decent regular people could
be misportrayed as scandalous by abusing the gossip and timing.

Brad and Angelina are truly in love. Brad has always been a good person
and Jolie is a reformed woman. You need to quite living in this delusional
world of lies. Pitt has been suffering just as much,if not more, than
Jolie under all of this monstrous malice and corruption. You are a nice
and good guy your whole life but then it all gets ruined by a false accusation that nobody should have believed? You a moral guy who cares about people but
gets misperceived as everything that contradicts who you are. You become labeled by a lie and over a sin the world doesn’t truly care about. While
a sick fraud and egomaniac becomes the most respected, awarded, and loved
woman in the world at your expense?! Leave Brad & Angelina alone. Get
a soul.

Correction, he would never betray or deceive anybody. He is the target of corruption, not the creator.

Deanna’s perspective seems reasonable and logical.
Jasmine’s sounds vindictive.
Me, I think Brad’s the root of the problem.