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Through the years: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt After years together, Hollywood super-couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are engaged. Here, a look back at their action-packed relationship.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie met in 2005 while filming the action/comedy “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” At the time, Pitt was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston. Though the couple long denied carrying on an on-set relationship, Jolie later admitted that they “fell in love” during the project.
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In a February 2009 W magazine interview, Pitt said: “What people don't understand is that we filmed [‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’] for a year. We were still filming after Jen [Aniston] and I split up. Even then it doesn't mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn't. I'm very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful.”
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Pitt with then-wife Jennifer Aniston at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. In March of 2009, Aniston said, “I will love Brad for the rest of my life. You can't take away good memories. I really do hope that we'll be good friends again at some point.”
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Jolie and Pitt -- with children Zahara and Maddox -- arrive in Tokyo in 2005. Jolie had adopted son Maddox in 2002, before her divorce from actor/director Billy Bob Thornton. Ethiopian born Zahara joined the family in July 2005.
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Pitt and Jolie, pregnant with the their first biological child, had settled into couplehood by January 2006.
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Vocal advocates of humanitarian causes, Jolie and Pitt visited Haiti's Immaculate Conception School in January 2006. Jolie remains an active advocate for refugees the world over, while Pitt has concentrated his efforts on building green homes in a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
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Jolie was willing to go far to escape invasive paparazzi cameras. On May 27, 2006, she gave birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel at the closely guarded Langstrand holiday village in Namibia.
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Jolie and Pitt at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2006.
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Pitt and Jolie — with son Maddox and daughter Zahara — visit Mumbai in November 2006. Jolie was in India filming the movie “A Mighty Heart” about slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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Pitt and Jolie ride a motorcycle through Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh city in November 2006. In March 2007, Jolie adopted 3-year-old Pax Thien from the city's Tam Binh orphanage.
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In a 2007 interview, Jolie said of her relationship with Pitt: “Brad and I are starting with the children and are planning to have our time together in our later years. . . . I try to make sure that my relationship with the man in my life is solid and complete and we're very connected and having a great life together and enjoying our children and being part of the world.”
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Jolie and Pitt arrive for a screening of Jolie's film “A Mighty Heart” at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In the film, Jolie played the wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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Jolie and Pitt, at a screening of the film “Darfur Now” at the United Nations in September 2007. Jolie wrote about her visits to refugee camps in Sudan for The Washington Post in February 2007.
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In May 2008, Jolie -- with Pitt at the Cannes Film Festival — was just two months away from delivering twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.
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In a bid to devalue pictures of their newborn twins, Pitt and Jolie controlled the release of the first pictures of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. The couple sold the rights for the first pictures to People and Hello! for $14 million, which was then donated to charity.
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At the 81st annual Academy Awards in February 2009, Pitt was nominated for best actor for his role in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” He lost to Sean Penn who was nominated for his role in “Milk.”
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The couple — here arriving at the January 2009 Golden Globe Awards — vowed not to marry until gay couples were granted the right to marriage in the U.S. Said Pitt in 2006, “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”
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Arguably the most famous couple on earth, Brangelina arrive for the May 2009 premiere of Pitt's film “Inglorious Basterds” at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Jolie's brother, James Haven, said of the couple, seen here in May 2009: “Brad has changed my sister a lot. They have an extraordinary bond, it's not on the usual level. ... I've never seen any sign of tension between them, and if it keeps going the way it's going, they'll be together for life.”
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Jolie and Pitt arrive at the Hollywood screening of “Inglorious Basterds” screening in August 2009. Jolie raised eyebrows in December when she was quoted in a German magazine giving a pass to extramarital affairs: “Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other. I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship.” She added, “It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards.”
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The couple that launched a fan schism: Love them or hate them, the controversial duo was a lightning rod for fans. Some saw their relationship as idyllic; others termed Jolie a “homewrecker” and “baby collector.”
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Pitt took son Maddox to watch the New Orleans Saints square off against the Arizona Cardinals during the NFC Divisional Playoff Game at New Orleans's Louisana Superdome on Jan. 16.
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Jolie and Pitt talk to Muhammad Ali at a UNICEF ball in December 2009. Said Jolie of Pitt in October. 2008: “I met the right person. I don't like being without him.”
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the film “The Tree of Life” at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2011.
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Jolie and Pitt attend the premiere of the film “Kung Fu Panda 2” in Los Angeles on May 22, 2011.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are all smiles as they arrive at the 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Jan. 21, 2012.
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Jolie and Pitt arrive for the screening of the movie “In the Land of Blood and Honey” at the 62nd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin on Feb. 11, 2012.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive at the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2012.
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Jolie sports an engagement ring as she and Brad Pitt, with son Pax, view works from the Chinese collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on April 11, 2012.
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A diamond ring is seen Angelina Jolie's engagement finger at the Los Angeles County Museum. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are engaged to marry, a spokeswoman for Pitt said on April 13, 2012. “Yes, it's confirmed. It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy. There's no date set at this time,” Pitt's spokeswoman Cynthia Pett-Dante told Reuters. Pitt and Jolie, a couple since 2005, are raising six children together, but they have never married.
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