For whatever reason, the failed marriage of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is up there with Jennifer Aniston dying alone and a Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart wedding on the list of scandalous gossip stories people are dying to read.
If you're a celebrity gossip magazine or an enterprising author, why let facts get in the way? So thought the creator of the December 1 tell-all, Brangelina Exposed.
Ian Halperin, an investigative journalist and author of July's bestseller Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, Brangelina Exposed promises to explain how the seemingly perfect couple "successfully manipulated the public."
What have we been manipulated into, you ask? "Believing a glamorous fairytale that bears little resemblance to the reality of the pair's life together." Obviously.
Basically, the Brangelina marriage is an act. Stop us if you've heard this one.
First on Halperin's agenda: Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston (who supposedly had a secret meeting with him lately) and the "real reason" for their huge split.
ALL A SHAM: Or so books and tabloids would have you believe.
The heavily-sourced writer hones in on Jolie's "dark past," reporting "new details of her volatile relationship with and estrangement from her father Jon Voight.
Is that really news at this point? Does anyone care?
Angelina Jolie also battled suicidal impulses, heroin and sexual exploits on her way to becoming an Oscar-winning actress. Again, is this really book material?
Halperin will also introduce "the key figure behind the scenes who orchestrated her makeover into a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador." Anyone still awake?
At the present time, the author says Brangelina life is no fairy tale, and that a split may be coming - like, for real - before too long. Supposedly. Probably not.
"Jolie's personal lifestyle choices are not only affecting her growing family," a release says, "but causing serious and potentially irreparable tensions with Pitt."
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15 Comments
October 27th, 2009 6:36 PM
Um...they're not married!!!
October 27th, 2009 7:54 PM
FOR THE SAKE OF $$ the media will make up,distort and just plain lie for sensationalized gossip, as this IAN is doing. How he can write about anyones private life without LIVING WITH THEM is beyond comprehension. Why is it that the media always needs to cast a doom and gloom on others life? These 2 people are obviously in love with each other & their family. They pay their blessings forward to those less fortunate. Yet all the negative surmising is mind blowing!
Its time their "sources" came out in the open bc I am sure they are made up to help them stir the proverbial pot! But, I am sure Mr. IAN will be not be walking but running falling over himself with laughter at the fools that bought his BS!
October 28th, 2009 3:14 PM
Agree with the first comment - they're not married!
October 28th, 2009 8:28 PM
Exactly! These people will do anything to sell -- all about greed. Unfortunately, there will be those who will buy his book.
November 3rd, 2009 11:24 AM
They just want people to watch them. and it works.
November 8th, 2009 3:01 PM
Whatever sells and makes them money. Just trashy
November 25th, 2009 9:25 PM
Well, I think if there are so many stories going around, the bunch of similar ones must be true. Aaand if brad wants to talk to jen, let him..they were hooked up before anyways. And you know what brad n ang are probley really lovely people too..but everyone just knows some of what happens in there life..con-troversy,con-troversy..people are to hard on them heeellllo..adbrayz a reported alco and lady ang is an ex unkyjay...hmm maybe these are where the real problems lie.not..I just hope the kids are okay.
November 26th, 2009 4:39 PM
I can’t get my eyes off from Brad and Angelina!
They are so hot! Can’t wait to read Halperin’s new book!
Anybody knows that guy... I mean he is pretty amazing!
All those biographies he wrote are incredible!!!!
I read the Kurt Cobain one and it was really good!
December 3rd, 2009 2:07 PM
So, from now on, people can only be credible journalists and biographers if they've lived with their subjects? So does that mean that we have to stop writing about Lincoln and Kennedy? Why can't we just give this book a chance? People feel that it's okay to say negative things about Ian Halperin (a man the majority of us don't know), but it's not okay for Halperin to say anything, negative or otherwise, about Brangelina (a couple he took the time to research.
December 3rd, 2009 2:16 PM
I think we should give the Brangelina bio a chance, too. People are saying such negative things about it and it's author, but have they even read it? We should strive to be a more informed society. We can't just believe what the PR machine feeds us. We need to look at all angles of a story