在本周星期二,《纽约时报》的报1zplay道of Angelina Jolie’s cross-complaint detailed explosive allegations against Brad Pitt about how he abused her and their six children on that private flight in September 2016 that preceded her filing for divorce. Since then, Brad and his representatives have been on damage control, engaging with the usual entertainment outlets to make sure his narrative is represented: TMZ, Page Six, the Daily Mail, Us Weekly.

根据布拉德(Brad)的人民,安吉丽娜(Angelina)正在针对他发动涂抹运动,她一直在改变有关飞机上发生的事情并添加新细节的故事。他的团队昨天发表了另一份声明通过他的律师安妮·基利(Anne Kiley):

“Brad has owned everything he’s responsible for from day one — unlike the other side. He’s not going to own anything he didn’t do. He has been on the receiving end of every type of personal attack and misrepresentation. Thankfully, the various public authorities the other side has tried to use against him over the past six years have made their own independent decisions. Brad will continue to respond in court as he has consistently done.”

As I wrotein my post earlier this weekwhen Angelina’s cross-complaint was reported by the NYT, Angelina didn’t wake up on Tuesday and decide to put Brad on blast. For those who are just following this story via TMZ and Page Six, what’s missing is the timeline and the context. Angelina’s allegations are part of a COUNTERclaim in response to him suing her over the sale of her share of Chateau Miraval. And his defenders are all like, why is she bringing up what happened on the plane in a lawsuit about selling the winery – these are two separate issues? If you’re only going by TMZ and the Daily Mail’s description of the situation, sure, they do seem like two separate issues…

这些媒体很方便地最小化的是,这两个问题,马拉瓦尔城堡和布拉德在飞机上的暴力行为,因为布拉德是连接他们的人,因为布拉德是连接的。因为作为他和安吉丽娜(Angelina)之间谈判的一部分,她将她的米拉瓦尔(Miraval)份额出售给他在飞机上。

Which means that HE was the one who introduced the plane incident into the conversation. Which is why she’s addressing the plane incident in her COUNTERclaim.

But again, Brad’s advantage is that so many mainstream entertainment media outlets are willing to amplify his narrative over and above what’s actually documented. He has a film coming out soon –巴比伦, directed by Damien Chazelle. A major studio film, directed by an Oscar winner, with an all-star cast, scheduled for a December release, with大奖项野心

A lot of people have invested a lot of time and money into his movie and there’s a whole ecosystem in place to support and protect that investment, including the golden boy who’s in the lead role. And that means access, whether it’s the promise of access, or the restriction of access, when it comes time to promote the film. Nobody wants to jeopardise that access and lose out on an opportunity to feature Brad or Margot Robbie or Tobey Maguire or any number of celebrities associated with the film. And certainly nobody wants to jeopardise future exclusives, opportunities for future interviews and photoshoots or even breaking news about his personal life. “You know, one day, when Brad is ready to talk about his new girlfriend, he just might want to talk to you about it… but it would be hard to do that if, you know, you’ve been portraying him as a domestic abuser”, is something that someone might say …

这就是为什么人们可能倾向于掩盖安吉丽娜(Angelina)交叉仪式中包含的许多信息,并将其与布拉德(Brad)放在那里进行比较。有关米拉瓦尔城堡诉讼的基本信息,这些诉讼破坏了他的立场。因此,如果您仍在阅读此书,请阅读更多内容 -here’s a link to the full document that was filed on Tuesday. If that doesn’t work,这是另一个.

If you don’t have time at the moment and plan to go back to it later, consider right now the origins of this lawsuit, which AGAIN was initiated by Brad, not Angelina. The news broke back in February of this year that he was suing her; the story was a big headline at the time. Here’s how PEOPLE reported it –注意突出显示的段落:

PEOPLE Magazine's reporting

So Brad busts out of the gate and gets the jump on Angelina in the media “claiming she violated an agreement they’d previously made […and] sold her interests in Chateau Miraval despite prior agreement that neither would do so unless the other person approved”.

TMZ也有类似的报告 -注意突出显示的段落:

TMZ's reporting

布拉德(Brad)的团队在TMZ和People等商店的协助下,在这里奠定了基础,安吉丽娜(Angelina)违反了他的诺言,并以此为单位。这是他的诉讼,他开始的诉讼以及她正在反对的诉讼的基础。他第一次指责她违反了诺言。因此,通过证明没有承诺一开始就可以捍卫自己。

And she has the receipts. Here’s the passage from Angelina’s cross-complaint, passages highlighted:

安吉丽娜·朱莉(Angelina Jolie)的交叉指示
安吉丽娜·朱莉(Angelina Jolie)的交叉指示
安吉丽娜·朱莉(Angelina Jolie)的交叉指示

Angelina has provided email correspondence between her advisors and Brad’s advisors from back when they first bought Chateau Miraval together, and it turns out her people had asked him to consider putting in writing a plan for what to do with the place should they separate – and BRAD was the one who refused, saying it was unnecessary.

There was no promise in writing. And there was no verbal promise either. Brad’s lawsuit, rather, is based on what he considers to be a “secret” consent agreement between him and Angelina that was NEITHER WRITTEN NOR VERBAL. So they made a promise through brain waves and telepathy and that gives him the right to sue her?

Note that there are dates specified in Angelina’s cross-complaint, dates relating to emails, in other words DOCUMENTS, exchanged back and forth. Those documents back up the fact that there was never a promise, never an agreement, certainly not the agreement that TMZ and PEOPLE reported back in February.

And there are other emails and documents, too, that set up the timeline of how all of this unfolded, including emails pertaining to the negotiations that were happening between Brad and Angelina when she tried to sell her share back to him. That, actually, was what she tried to do first. She never intended to sell to Tenute del Mondo (the company that eventually bought her share and the company that is now also in a legal dispute with Brad over his alleged mismanagement of the business) because she wanted to just sell it all to Brad. And they were close to a deal.

安吉丽娜(Angelina)的交叉仪式包括有关双方代表之间来回走动的详细信息,而他们的代表实际上互相祝贺,因为这似乎实际上会发生。他们基本上同意与安吉丽娜(Angelina)卖给布拉德(Brad)的股价低于她的股价价值。这笔交易已经准备好了……然后他停止了。

But you will note, in February, when TMZ and PEOPLE and other outlets covered the story of Brad suing Angelina because she sold her share to someone else over his objections, they fail to mention that she tried initially to sell to him. Which means that those who were reading about the situation and only getting that framing of it would assume that she just decided to f-ck him over and blindside him with the sale.

The paperwork and the email chain and the trail of documents referenced in Angelina’s cross-complaint say otherwise. And if the BASIS of his lawsuit, the fundamental seed of his accusations against her, is this absurd (how do you prove TELEPATHIC CONSENT?!), shouldn’t that tell you something about the motivation?

There is a LOT in Angelina’s cross-complaint, with receipts, including specific dates and other correspondence provided as supporting documentation, that seriously challenges the narrative that Brad and his PR team have been able to get out there. But the problem is most people aren’t going to read the cross-complaint. Their perspective on the situation has already been shaped by media outlets like TMZ and the Daily Mail which cherry-pick certain parts of the documents while overlooking others. And it’s easier to read a quick post at TMZ and not spend ten to fifteen minutes going through the PDF of a legal document. Brad and his team are using that to their advantage.

But his bigger problem is where the children are concerned. In suing Angelina over Chateau Miraval, Brad compelled Angelina to disclose the sequence of events that led to the breakdown in their negotiations for her to sell her share of the estate back to him. The deal fell through because he was trying to force her to sign an NDA about him allegedly abusing her and the kids on the private plane. So he was the one who made the plane incident relevant.

And now that those details have been included in the cross-complaint, people know more about the alleged domestic violence. It certainly doesn’t help that, well, he hasn’t been seen with his children – any of his six children, not a single child – in SIX YEARS. Not since that flight.

Part of the damage control that’s happening right now then is that he and his team have to explain it. Never fear, TMZ is here. And of course Angelina is to blame. TMZ reported yesterday that Angelina has “毒害了孩子们反对布拉德” and that they have a “limited and strained relationship, because of her campaign of alienation”.

好吧,这很有趣,因为就在几个月前,他晋升Bullet Train,according to PEOPLE,布拉德过着最好的生活:

PEOPLE Magazine's reporting

Last yeare!新闻报道了这一点Brad has a great bond with them:

e!News's reporting

这些都是他的所有消息来源,人们“接近他”(强调地雷),他们定期将Sh-T泄漏到媒体上,以维持布拉德是一个好父亲的立面。

But now Brad’s insiders are saying that it’s not actually great between him and the kids and it’s all Angelina’s fault. Which one is it? Has she poisoned the kids against him or does he have dinner with them in LA?

在这一点上,如果你访问这个网站ver the years, I’m sure you know how it works. Brad Pitt definitely knows how it works. Few people are better at playing the game than he is and if he could, we would have seen photos of him with his kids a long time ago. The fact that we haven’t is a major PR issue for him. Which is why he has to go on the attack on Angelina and claim that she’s alienated them from him, so that he can divert attention from the fact that they were on that plane. They saw what they saw. He’s trying to convince the public that they didn’t see what they saw and that their mother is telling them what they saw. And that when the public sees Angelina with the kids all the time and him with his kids never the time, we’re not really seeing what we think we’re seeing either. He’s just a man being harassed by a vengeful bitch. This isDARVOHimpathy充分生效。