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Gwyneth Paltrow told friends that Brad Pitt ‘has terrible taste in women’

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Amy Odell has written Gwyneth Paltrow: A Biography. Odell smartly gave out excerpts of the book to People Magazine and other outlets, and it’s creating so much buzz for the book. The excerpts are mostly focused on Gwyneth’s 1990s heyday, when she was the biggest It Girl ever and she went from being engaged to Brad Pitt to a chaotic on-and-off thing with Ben Affleck. Judging solely by our comment section, there are a lot of ‘90s girls who remember all of this well, and it’s nice to have some vintage gossip. Well, here’s something even more fun: remember how Gwyneth dissed Jennifer Aniston several times? Remember when Gwyneth dismissively referred to Aniston “that TV girl” when Brad Pitt and Aniston were dating? Well, if you can believe it, Gwyneth also bad-mouthed Pitt & Aniston privately too.

Gwyneth Paltrow, now 52, and Pitt, now 61, began dating after working together on David Fincher‘s horror classic Se7en in 1994, got engaged in 1996 and split in 1997. As revealed in Amy Odell‘s upcoming Gwyneth: The Biography, Paltrow, had a mournful reaction to Pitt’s 1999 much-covered wedding to fellow A-lister Jennifer Aniston — not that she shared it with the public.

As Odell writes, Paltrow got snappy during a September 2000 interview at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of Duets (starring Gwyneth and directed by her later father, Bruce Paltrow), calling a reporter “very gossipy” for a question about another ex, Ben Affleck. Things didn’t improve from there, as revealed in this book excerpt exclusive to Us Weekly:

The reporter then asked how she felt about Brad Pitt marrying Jennifer Aniston [in July of that year]. “Are you really asking me this question?” Gwyneth replied, her eyes now “daggers.” “I can’t comment on this kind of thing.” In reality, Gwyneth confided to friends that she’d felt sad when she learned they were getting married. (She was also fond of telling them that Brad “has terrible taste in women.”)

As most readers of Us likely recall, Pitt and Aniston got engaged in November 1999 and wed in Malibu on July 29, 2000 — ultimately divorcing five years later, in October 2005, as Pitt’s romance with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie heated up. That same year, during a business meeting with Aerin Lauder — a fellow Manhattan socialite and part of the Estee Lauder cosmetics dynasty which would sign Paltrow as the face of its Pleasures fragrance — she couldn’t resist taking a shot, Odell writes:

At one dinner, the two were talking about Brad Pitt. According to someone familiar with the discussion, Gwyneth allegedly told her, “He’s dumber than a sack of s–t.”

“He was brought up very religious, in Missouri,” Odell told People of the stark contrast between Paltrow and Pitt. “It’s just a very different world from hers, growing up in Manhattan, going to [elite private school] Spence, I think she thought he wasn’t sophisticated enough for her. She thought she was smarter, better educated, more sophisticated.”

[From Us Weekly]

The thing is, I think we’ve established that Gwyneth had good reasons for breaking off her engagement to Brad, and she was probably very happy to be out of that relationship. But in true Gwyneth fashion, she was just furious that Brad moved on to a different famous woman, and a television actress at that! As for Gwyneth telling people that Brad “has terrible taste in women”… lmao, what a self-own. I wonder if this biography contains any gossip about Gwyneth’s thoughts on Angelina Jolie? They worked together at one point and I don’t recall Gwyneth saying anything particularly juicy or noteworthy about Jolie in public. I’m sure she had many thoughts privately though.

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Gwyneth Paltrow thought Brad Pitt ‘wasn’t sophisticated enough for her’

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In our new Gossip with Celebitchy podcast – which comes out this weekend! – CB and I talked about the new Gwyneth Paltrow biography and all of the 1990s gossip around and about Gwyneth. The biography is being exclusively excerpted in this week’s People Mag cover story, and the Brad Pitt sections are already getting a lot of headlines. That was one of the big focuses in our comment section too, especially the part about how and why Gwyneth and Brad split up and broke off their engagement. After Emma came out, Gwyneth allegedly complained that Brad “wanted to be with her but seemed to feel threatened by her success and all the attention she received.” That was heavily debated! But I think it’s probably very true, especially given what we know now about Brad. You also have to remember the age difference at the time – he is nine years older than Gwyneth, which was a big deal when she was 22-24 and he was in his 30s and “ready to settle down.” Well, People knows what ‘90s girls want, so they added more to their excerpts, specifically the Pitt section:

“They were one of the most iconic couples of the nineties,” says author Amy Odell of Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt. Both gorgeous, glamorous — and for a time, sporting the same shag haircut. Odell shares new details about their romance in her new book Gwyneth: The Biography, a revealing look at the fascinating life of the 52-year-old star, excerpted exclusively in this week’s PEOPLE.

The two first met in 1993 when Paltrow auditioned for the romantic western Legends of the Fall. She didn’t get the part (Julia Ormond did) but sparks flew and Pitt later suggested her for the role of his wife in the 1995 thriller, Se7en. At the time, Paltrow was also offered a role in Feeling Minnesota opposite Keanu Reeves. Unsure of which one to accept, writes Odell, “She consulted with a friend, who said, ‘Well, who do you want to date, Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves?’ Gwyneth chose Se7en and Pitt, and Cameron Diaz took the Feeling Minnesota part.”

After two years of dating, they became engaged in Argentina in December 1996.

“Her dad [Bruce Paltrow] loved Brad,” says Odell. “Her friends loved Brad. They thought he was the nicest guy.”

Still, according to the author, Paltrow was having misgivings. “Gwyneth expressed doubts to a crew member [while making the 1996 film Emma] that Pitt was right for her, and admitted she had a crush on Hugh Grant.”

“He was brought up very religious, in Missouri,” says Odell. “It’s just a very different world from hers, growing up in Manhattan, going to Spence, I think she thought he wasn’t sophisticated enough for her. She thought she was smarter, better educated, more sophisticated.” The book also recounts an interview Paltrow once gave about the chasm between their worlds. “Brad and I have very different upbringings,” she told an interviewer. “So when we go to restaurants and order caviar, I have to say to Brad ‘This is beluga and this is osetra.’”

[From People]

The caviar story still kills me. But it speaks to both sides – Gwyneth was and is a snob and an elitist, and she kind of thought Pitt was beneath her. As for Brad… I remember his behavior during the Gwyneth years, and he really loved her. But I think he was absolutely threatened by her success and he was probably pressuring her to work less and be less visible. I think he did the same with Angelina, which is why she would go years without taking acting jobs. Also: I remember that Gwyneth’s parents loved Brad, she always talked about that.

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Brad Pitt wants to see his kids but they have to make the first move

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Brad Pitt and Apple want to convince the public that F1 is an unqualified hit. Most of the industry insiders and trade papers are happy to play along, but if you read closely, you’ll see that F1 hasn’t even broken even yet, considering its bloated production costs (anywhere between $200-300 million) and its reported $100 million marketing cost. Still, ever since F1 was declared a “hit,” Pitt has been trying to parlay the smoke-and-mirrors “success.” Parlay it how, you might ask? A normal actor would use the success to sign on to more projects with better scripts, perhaps do an awards-bait project with a critically acclaimed director. Not Brad. No, he’s been on the warpath following his F1 promotion, attacking Angelina Jolie from different angles in multiple outlets.

Last week, multiple outlets got the exclusive that Pitt is “demanding” Angelina’s private messages to an executive at the Stoli Group, all part of his multi-year lawsuit against Angelina for selling her half of Chateau Miraval. The winery lawsuit goes to trial next year, and Pitt’s camp is still screaming that Angelina sold her biggest asset to punish him (and not because she didn’t want to be legally and financially tied to an abusive alcoholic dilettante who was pissing away her investment). The Daily Mail got a lengthy briefing from Team Pitt about all of this a few days ago, where Team Pitt claims that Angelina sold Nouvel because she was “vindictive” about how he got “joint custody.” This is false – he paid off a judge to get the ruling he wanted, and the California Supreme Court overturned the ruling. That happened months before Jolie sold her stake in Miraval. She also wrote Pitt a letter explaining why she was selling and kept him informed at every turn of her decision-making (he’s still playing dumb and claiming that she blind-sided him with the sale). Team Pitt also returned to one of their favorite dumb talking points: that he’s suing Angelina so that their kids can have Miraval one day! Speaking of:

Brad Pitt is ready to reconcile with his twins. The “F1” star is “desperate” for “one final shot to get together” with Knox and Vivienne “and make amends,” according to a new report.

A source told the Daily Mail on Friday that the Oscar winner, 61, “knows the chance … is remote to say the least” that the 16-year-olds will want to spend time with him ahead of their birthday on Saturday.”

The insider noted that the “devastated” actor “got the message loud and clear” when his and ex-wife Angelina Jolie’s youngest daughter dropped Pitt from her last name in a 2024 Playbill. However, her brother keeping “Jolie-Pitt as his surname” has allegedly given the Emmy winner a “glimmer of hope.”

We hear from a source close to the matter that Pitt doesn’t speak about his kids out of respect for their privacy — but that any parent cares about their relationship with their children. Daily Mail also reported Thursday that the “family man” still considers the twins and their siblings — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, and Shiloh, 19 — “very important to his life” and wants them “all back in the fold.”

A second source claimed, “He will always believe and always hope there is a chance to be back with all of them, and he doesn’t want to think otherwise. He doesn’t want to give up, he’s not that kind of guy, he’s not that kind of father. He is a proud father, and he would be happy to have them see that eventually.”

However, Pitt wants his kids to “make the move because he has tried over and over again to get back in their good graces.” As for his dynamic with Jolie, 50, Pitt has reportedly accepted that they will always be “at odds.”

[From Page Six]

“Pitt wants his kids to ‘make the move because he has tried over and over again to get back in their good graces.’” Spoken like a pure dogsh-t father. “Yes, I abused you and terrorized you when you were minor children, but now it’s up to you to do the heavy lifting of reconciliation.” One of the best things Angelina did for those kids is give them agency and fight for their rights. She wanted them to be able to decide what kind of relationship, if any, they have with Brad. All of them except Knox (apparently) have decided they want nothing to do with him. They’ve also made it pretty clear that they want nothing to do with Miraval, so he’s going to need a different excuse for why his alcoholic ass is fighting so hard to hold on to a winery.

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Brad Pitt ‘demands’ Angelina Jolie’s private messages to The Stoli Group

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During Brad Pitt’s F1 promotion, Team Pitt wouldn’t shut up about how Brad is so happy/relieved to be done with the neverending divorce from Angelina Jolie. She filed for divorce in the fall of 2016 – the divorce was finalized in December 2024. We were supposed to believe that Brad is finally done waging his abusive campaign against Jolie, that he’s “moved on” and no longer focused on all things Angelina. Team Pitt didn’t want to remind people that he’s still suing Angelina over her lawful sale of her half of Chateau Miraval.

Last year, Pitt scored a (pyrrhic) victory when the court ordered Angelina to turn over her records of all of the NDAs she’s asked people to sign over the years. That was in response to Angelina’s argument that Pitt wanted to attach an NDA to the sale of Nouvel, an NDA which would effectively silence Angelina about Pitt’s emotional, financial and physical abuse. Angelina has also sought extensive records from Pitt’s communications, including comms between Pitt and his crisis management team. Well, now Pitt wants Angelina’s communications with someone involved in the Stoli Group.

Brad Pitt is demanding private communications from ex-wife Angelina Jolie in a new filing relating to their legal battle over Château Miraval. On June 30, the F1 star, 61, filed court documents obtained by PEOPLE revealing his attempts to depose Alexey Oliynik, who works for Stoli Group. Pitt claimed that Oliynik had firsthand knowledge of Jolie’s 2021 sale of the French winery the former couple co-owned to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group.

In February 2022, Pitt filed a lawsuit alleging that Jolie, 50, made the sale despite a prior agreement that neither would do so unless the other person approved. The Maria star responded to Pitt’s filing with a countersuit in September 2022, claiming he’s been “waging a vindictive war against” her since she filed for divorce in 2016.

Per Pitt’s new document filed in the Superior Court of California, Oliynik has refused to turn over relevant documents or appear for a deposition, arguing that he could not be forced to do so as a resident of Switzerland.

“These requests go directly to key allegations about Pitt’s objections to the sale,” the Oscar winner’s legal team writes in his filing, and “easily meet the standard for discoverability given Pitt’s allegations that Jolie acted with malice in selling to Stoli, a counterparty she knew Pitt opposed.”

Jolie’s legal team has said in court documents that Pitt refused to buy her out of the winery business because she didn’t want to sign a non-disclosure agreement “designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up,” referring to a private jet flight in 2016 in which Pitt was allegedly verbally and physically abusive with his family. (The actor-producer was not charged by authorities after investigations and Jolie declined to press charges at the time.)

In May 2024, a judge ruled that Jolie must produce eight years’ worth of non-disclosure agreements in an attempt to illustrate that the Girl, Interrupted Oscar winner herself used the kind of NDAs that she objected to signing in 2021.

Following the news of the former couple’s settlement, a source close to Jolie told PEOPLE that she hopes Pitt can now “move on,” citing the winery lawsuit: “Sadly, until he drops his lawsuit, this family will not have the peace and healing they so very much desire and deserve.”

[From People]

Brad’s lawyers went to court in California and demanded that a Swiss native be forced into turning over documents and sit for a deposition, all to prove that…. Angelina sold Nouvel to the Stoli Group in 2021. With this entire case, I’ve felt like I’m taking crazy pills, because Pitt’s whole lawsuit boils down to “I’m mad that she sold Nouvel, she promised she wouldn’t and NO, I don’t have that promise in writing!” Good lord. Anyway, I find it interesting that this latest thing is coming weeks after F1’s promotional tour. It’s back to regularly scheduled programming for Team Pitt, meaning “obsessing over all things Angelina.”

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Brad Pitt: ‘I’ve never had a gay experience… I kind of missed that window’

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There’s another story about Brad Pitt’s styling for F1’s promotion. Apparently, he’s working with two stylists – Taylor McNeill (best known for working with Timothee Chalamet and Kendrick Lamar) and George Cortina, who styled Brad’s recent “I’m going potty in my leather outfit” look in GQ. So… those are the two stylists responsible for velvet trousers, ‘90s sateen blouses, palazzo pants and Gucci onesies. We knew about McNeill’s work before now, but this is the first I’m hearing of Cortina working with Pitt. Sources are emphasizing that the stylists are working on JUST Brad too, but I’ve been wondering if Pitt is financing Ines de Ramon’s “makeover.” It’s not really so much a makeover as a more polished update, and I’ve assumed that Brad is financing that as well.

Speaking of Brad’s strange relationship with Ines, I keep coming back to the idea that he basically knows nothing about her, and she exists in the celebrity-gossip zeitgeist as someone who barely seems to have any interests or passions beyond showing up for Brad every few months. I’ve believed for some time that Ines was basically hired to give Brad a girlfriend and change the narrative around him, especially the narrative that he’s still disturbingly hung up on Angelina Jolie. All of which to say, I’ve always believed Brad is heterosexual, I just think he’s toxic AF. Of all of the celebrity men of Pitt’s generation, he’s one of the few who never really got any serious “gay rumors.” I bring this up because he addressed his sexuality in the Armchair Expert interview:

Brad Pitt got candid about his sexuality and missing out on the “gay experience” amid his romance with Ines de Ramon.

“You know I’ve never had a gay experience,” the “Fight Club” star said on Monday’s episode of “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.”

“I kind of missed that window, but if I did, it wouldn’t be you,” he joked, referring to host Dax Shepard. Pitt, 61, quipped that the “Parenthood” alum would only make the cut as his “14th or 15th” experience.

“I don’t want to brag, but you’re going to need to build up to me,” Shepard, 50, responded playfully. “I do recommend you start with some starters.”

[From Page Six]

I think he’s probably telling the truth here – while I’m sure Brad has been cruised by gay men for much of his adult life, I buy that he never had any gay experiences and never really explored anything. And who would choose Dax as their first experience with anything??

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Us Weekly: Brad Pitt ‘loved’ Angelina Jolie and ‘he knows he made mistakes’

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It was a small relief to read Vulture’s pushback on Brad Pitt in the past week. While F1 is one of Brad’s biggest films, Brad still hasn’t had to face any consequences for his violent acts against Angelina Jolie and their children in 2016. He terrorized his family and repeatedly assaulted Angelina in front of the children. He likely hurt one or more of the kids as they tried to defend their mom. The Jolie-Pitt kids have little to no relationship with Brad nine years later – Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and Vivienne have all dropped “Pitt” from their names privately or publicly. Knox is the only one who might still use “Pitt” in his name. Because Brad is also suing Angelina over the sale of her half of Miraval, we also know that the 2016 plane incident was not the first time he abused her. That information came out last year, although it’s been largely ignored as everyone rushes to help out “poor Brad.” Speaking of, Us Weekly has been getting stuff from Pitt’s crisis management team for years, and this came out a few days ago:

Brad Pitt‘s got a new lease on life after admittedly overcoming “struggles.” The actor, who recently opened up on the “New Heights” podcast about facing obstacles with perseverance, is ready to put the past behind him as he’s learned from his mistakes when it comes to parenthood and marriage.

“The divorce is something that had been controlling his life for so many years,” an insider exclusively tells Us Weekly of his split from Angelina Jolie. “He loved her and he knows he made mistakes.”

“It was such a divisive, toxic situation,” the source adds of the drama that surrounded their divorce. The insider notes that the events leading up to the split and the aftermath “turned the kids against him as well” but that Pitt “doesn’t blame [Jolie] for everything.”

While under the public gaze, Pitt’s kids have seemingly made it clear where they stand. Shiloh legally filed to have Pitt dropped from her last name in August 2024, while Zahara and Vivienne appear to also only go by the last name Jolie. Pax and Maddox have also both been candid about distancing themselves from their dad. Pitt, who has been dating Ines de Ramon since 2022, also hopes to one day move forward with his children after legally ending this chapter with Jolie.

The actor’s “biggest regret is he can’t repair this,” the source says.

“The case is over but there are no winners,” the insider says. “To have that behind him is a relief. But on the other hand, it’s been hard for him because he doesn’t have a great relationship with his kids.”

The source says that Pitt’s sobriety journey has played a large part in the Oscar winner turning over a new leaf after years of strain with his children and ex-wife. “Ever since he stopped drinking, everything has changed,” the insider shares. However, Jolie “is still not in a place where she is going to forgive him or ever will.”

The insider maintains that Pitt is “relieved that this [divorce] is over, but the lasting impact is something he’s going to live with forever.”

[From Us Weekly]

“The divorce is something that had been controlling his life for so many years” – HE was the one holding up the divorce so he could extend his abuse and control over Angelina. He’s still trying to control her and punish her for leaving – the Miraval lawsuit (which he started) will likely go to trial next year, and I hope he gets his ass handed to him in court. “It’s been hard for him because he doesn’t have a great relationship with his kids…” He made his choices back in 2016, and he’s continued to make the same choices for nine years – he willingly jettisoned his relationships with his children by treating Angelina like sh-t and publicly maligning her for having the audacity to leave him. It wasn’t just about how he terrorized his family on one flight in 2016 – it was everything he did afterwards. “He loved her and he knows he made mistakes.” I still say that he simply could not believe that Angelina wouldn’t come back to him. That’s what this has always been about – how dare she leave, how dare she not forgive me.

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Vulture: Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ promo was ‘carefully choreographed’ & designed to fool you

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Jurassic World Rebirth was the box office winner for the long holiday weekend here in America. Americans still love dinosaur stories, and the rest of the world does as well. JWR ended up making over $318 million worldwide in its five-day opening. That’s more than F1 has made in two weeks – F1’s two-week box office haul is now $293,617,106 (per Box Office Mojo). Which is perfectly respectable, except that I’m quite sure that Apple spent over $300 million to make this fakakta movie and they probably spent tens of millions to promote it and hype it. Still, F1 is now Apple’s highest-grossing movie, and obviously, there’s already talk about making Vroom Vroom Part II.

One of the most disappointing parts of this whole F1 saga is that Pitt was once again “allowed” to promote a major film in his squirrelly, stage-managed way, which is what he’s been doing for the past nine years. Instead of constantly having “the conversation” about Pitt’s violence and his abuse of Angelina Jolie and their children, Pitt was “allowed” to speak in vague generalities about “moving on” and needing the wake-up call to dry out. More than a week after F1 came out, Vulture finally published the only piece I’ve seen which calls out Pitt’s BS. Some highlights from Vulture’s “Brad Pitt Is Fooling You.”

Pitt’s careful choreography: Pitt’s carefully choreographed press tour for F1: The Movie says otherwise. Continuing to work with crisis-management publicist Matthew Hiltzik, who has represented Johnny Depp (and whose protéges went on to represent Justin Baldoni and work in Trump’s White House), Pitt has made a concerted effort to reestablish himself as an emblem of unaffected, undiluted movie-star cool with just a hint of vulnerability. Yes, he’s struggled with alcoholism, but he’s overcome it. His new 30-something girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, has been positioned as breezy and agreeable, unlike his ex he wants you to forget…The cumulative effect of F1 and its press tour have been a carefully tuned charm offensive meant to obscure, if not outright bury, the alleged violent particulars of his behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie. Pitt has been so successful at this rehabilitation that most of the public don’t even understand what he’s trying to rehabilitate himself for.

The reminder: If you need a reminder: Court documents allege that, during a trip on their private plane in 2016, Pitt threw Jolie against a wall, shook her, and poured alcohol on her while she was trying to sleep. When their children tried to defend Jolie, Pitt “physically abused one of their children.” Five days after the flight, Jolie would file for divorce (it was only finalized in December 2024). In the years since, Pitt won an Oscar for Best Supporting actor in 2020 for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. His movies after that, Bullet Train (2022) and Wolfs (2024), didn’t light the world on fire. His Bullet Train press tour was marked by an awkward interaction with Bad Bunny, in which the Puerto Rican star looked unimpressed by Pitt’s attempts to embody the chill pinnacle of Hollywood stardom. Wolfs reteamed Pitt with his Oceans franchise co-star George Clooney, another evocation of past glory, but the film was a critical and financial flop. No one on either press tour asked Pitt a single question about Jolie.

Absolutely no one asked Pitt about Jolie or their kids: In his latest glossy, GQ profile, Pitt gives an appearance of unmediated candor, even though he isn’t asked about Jolie or about his estrangement from his six children, some of whom are reportedly legally stripping his name from theirs.

The illusion of Brad Pitt: When an actor ties their rehabilitation to their blockbuster film, it becomes difficult to extricate the art from the artist. The onscreen performance feeds the off-screen persona. The off-screen persona is a performance, too, one that sells ideals and sometimes cashmere sweaters or cell-phone plans. Pitt has always sold a particular vision of American white masculinity, one predicated on charisma, unflappability, and seamless confidence. His deftness in removing the specter of violence from his own narrative is a reminder of the ways violence against women is normalized. It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care.

[From Vulture]

“It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care.” Exactly. I was so disappointed to see women on social media talking breezily about how “F1 is a good movie” and “wow, Brad Pitt is still a movie star.” These weren’t bots, they were actual journalists and critics and regular people who completely side-stepped Pitt’s violent past and all of the crazy sh-t he’s done to Angelina in the past nine years. I sometimes wonder if I’m one of the few people who is no longer buying anything Pitt is selling, but it’s now a quietly growing conversation that… Brad Pitt no longer has any rizz.

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