HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have settled their lawsuit against a British tabloid that claimed the couple was on the verge of a split earlier this year.
At a hearing Thursday in London's High Court, the couple's attorney said the stars had accepted an undisclosed sum in settlement of their privacy claim against the News of the World, the BBC reports.
The lawsuit stemmed from a January story in which the paper claimed the couple had met with a divorce lawyer and reached an agreement over the dividing of their assets and custody of their six children. At the time, the couple's attorney, Keith Schilling, called the "widely republished" allegations "false and intrusive." The lawyer said the suit was filed after the News of the World failed to meet "reasonable demands" for an apology.
Sorrell Trope, a Los Angeles divorce lawyer who was identified in some media reports as the lawyer representing the couple, also denied the claims, saying he had never been in contact with the couple.
"I have had no contact from... Angelina Jolie and / or Brad Pitt," Trope said in a statement Schilling provided to the BBC back in February. "I have never met... your clients or had any involvement with either of them. The foregoing is true with respect to all other members of this firm."
Jolie, 35, and Pitt, 46, intend to donate the settlement to their charitable Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
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