Reason why Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been legally single since 2019, despite initially filing to end their marriage in 2016 — a divorce which is still pending.

Reason why Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been legally single since 2019, despite initially filing to end their marriage in 2016 — a divorce which is still pending.

The Bullet Train actor and Eternals actress first met on the set of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith and began dating a couple of years later. The two share six children together — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne — with Pitt adopting Maddox and Zahara in 2006 after he began dating Jolie.

On Aug. 23, 2014, the former couple tied the knot in an intimate wedding in the French village of Correns. However, after a decade together and two years of marriage, the pair’s relationship came to an end when Jolie filed for divorce on Sept. 20, 2016.

I heard one lawyer say, ’No one wins in court — it’s just a matter of who gets hurt worse,’ ” Pitt told GQ in 2017, a year into their divorce proceedings. “And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you’re right and why they’re wrong, and it’s just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And fortunately my partner in this agrees.”

Eight years later, their contentious legal battle has continued as the actors argue over custody and their finances, as well as a separate lawsuit regarding their previously joint French winery.