Brad Pitt investigated for Child Abuse

BY PEOPLE STAFF


Brad Pitt is under investigation for child abuse after after he allegedly got "verbally abusive" and "physical" with one of his children with Angelina Jolie on the couple's private plane while their other kids were present, PEOPLE confirms.

The Los Angeles Police Department and L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services are both investigating after someone anonymously reported the incident last Wednesday on the tarmac, a source tells PEOPLE.

Pitt is accused of getting verbally abusive with one couple's kids, as well as getting "physical," a source says. Jolie was present at the time, along with at least some of their other children.


The report allegedly indicates he had been drinking at the time of the incident.

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Another source says that Pitt did not return to the L.A. family home with Jolie and the children after the incident. That wasn't unusual, says the source - Pitt would often spend the night at a hotel after arguments with Jolie.

TMZ first reported news of the child services investigation.

A source close to Pitt tells PEOPLE that that he is not taking the investigation lightly.

"He takes the matter very seriously and says he did not commit any abuse of his children," the source says. "It's unfortunate that people involved are continuing to present him in the worst possible light."

Jolie, 41, filed for divorce and requested sole physical custody of the couple's six children - Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8 . In documents filed in court on Monday, Jolie cited irreconcilable differences in ending their marriage of two years.

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She listed the date of separation as September 15, a day after Pitt's alleged blowup.

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After news of the divorce went public, Pitt explained in a statement to PEOPLE that his focus is on the "well-being of our kids."


"I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids," he said in the statement. "I kindly ask the press to give them the space they deserve during this challenging time."

In a separate statement released by her attorney, Jolie said: "This decision was made for the health of the family."

Pitt and Jolie famously met in 2003 on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and began publicly dating a few years later. They married in 2014 after getting engaged in April 2012.

The couple were last seen together with Vivienne and Knox in July when they celebrated their two youngest kids' birthdays in Los Angeles.


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This one will turn ugly 😕

Anyone here follows Laineygossip?? She had been hinting at an 'incident', since the past 2 days, which made Angie take this step. It had to be an incident of domestic abuse towards Angie or the children...unsurprising since she asked for sole custody and has cited safety of her children as a cause.

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Originally posted by: Anachronist

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Originally posted by: gatheringstorm

Anyone here follows Laineygossip?? She had been hinting at an 'incident', since the past 2 days, which made Angie take this step. It had to be an incident of domestic abuse towards Angie or the children...unsurprising since she asked for sole custody and has cited safety of her children as a cause.

Supposedly Brad was caught unaware by her divorce filing...this one is gonna get ugly.

P.S. Angie has no publicist and manages her own PR herself.

WOW didn't knew this 😲 Brad should be really careful this time coz Angie is gonna rip him apart, She is no Jennifer Aniston 😆

OT: This is Shocking didn't expected this from Brad I thought he loved his kids. No wonder Angie cited concerns for her childrens security in the Divorce papers 😲
This Divorce is gonna be extremely controversial

I kind of predicted it when the other articles hinted at his "anger issues"

And Jolie claiming sole physical custody pretty much confirms that she doesn't feel the children are safe with him.

Originally posted by: gatheringstorm

Anyone here follows Laineygossip?? She had been hinting at an 'incident', since the past 2 days, which made Angie take this step. It had to be an incident of domestic abuse towards Angie or the children...unsurprising since she asked for sole custody and has cited safety of her children as a cause.

Supposedly Brad was caught unaware by her divorce filing...this one is gonna get ugly.

P.S. Angie has no publicist and manages her own PR herself.

Isn't it known that Lainey has always been a Jolie fan. Most of what she is saying or has said has usually come from Jolie's PR. Can't see her being neutral here considering most of what is floating around out there has been fed to the press by Jolie's PR aka Jolie herself since she doesn't technically have a publicist.

Not saying this couldn't be true since Brad is obviously being investigated but just saying a lot of the stuff out there is coming from her side. It seems like she caught him completely off guard with filing the divorce when she did and then releasing stories out there about him being a pothead (which he has always been) or that he drinks or his anger issues.

Originally posted by: gatheringstorm

Anyone here follows Laineygossip?? She had been hinting at an 'incident', since the past 2 days, which made Angie take this step. It had to be an incident of domestic abuse towards Angie or the children...unsurprising since she asked for sole custody and has cited safety of her children as a cause.

Supposedly Brad was caught unaware by her divorce filing...this one is gonna get ugly.

P.S. Angie has no publicist and manages her own PR herself.