Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have spoken of their devastation at the earthquake in Haiti.
The Hollywood couple have previously visited the troubled country with Fugees star Wyclef Jean – and immediately reached out to him to offer their help in his aid efforts for his homeland.
“We are devastated by the news from Haiti,” Pitt and Jolie said in a joint statement. “We will work closely with our good friend Wyclef Jean to support the humanitarian efforts on the island and help those who have been injured and left without homes and shelter.”
Jean has long been an outspoken campaigner for help for Haiti and immediately rushed into action at news of the earthquake, which is feared to have killed thousands.
He begged for help, saying “idle hands will only make this tragedy worse”, adding: “The international community must also rise to the occasion.”
Superstar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have given a foster care organisation a fabulous Christmas present.
The Hollywood couple, who have three adopted children of their own, have donated just over $100,000 (£62,600) to the American SOS Children’s Villages.
The money will go towards the creation of alternative foster care programmes for children in Florida and Illinois.
Angelina said in a statement: “We have seen first-hand the remarkable job SOS does to raise orphaned and abandoned children and keep families together.”
Brad and Angelina adopted Maddox from Cambodia, Pax from Vietnam and Zahara from Ethiopia.
They have three biological children, Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox.
The domestic bliss of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has inspired a gingerbread-like house in Oklahoma named The Brangelina.
The 4000-square-feet $500,000 house, built near Pitt’s birthplace in Oklahoma City, also features a sculpture titled Brangelina Forever.
The house was designed by a Los Angeles artist known as Xvala. The Brangelina Forever sculpture is a life-size cast of Brad and Angelina in an embrace and is said to contain crushed glass from wine glasses they drank from on their first meeting on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith.
The sculpture will be worked into the ceiling of the novel house’s master bedroom.
The Brangelina is also stencilled with words that represent both Pitt and Jolie, including quotes from Jolie’s tattoos.
The house is for sale with the proviso that the owner must offer honorary ownership to Pitt and Jolie and put them up every time they come to town to visit Pitt’s grandmother.
The statue and the house are part of a documentary titled Domestic Bliss: The Daniel Edwards/XVALA Project by Oklahoma filmmaker Dave Smith.
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are set for some saucy scenes in their upcoming movie The Tourist.
Jolie, 34, and Depp, 46, have both signed on for the new flick and Life & Style has obtained a copy of the movie’s draft script, which revealed the steamy action that takes place.
The movie sees Depp play the part of American tourist Frank Taylor, who Jolie’s character, Interpol agent Cara Mason, uses to get what she wants.
The script says: “The outline of her naked body is visible in the shower. Frank walks to the shower and opens the glass door.
“Walking in, he lifts Cara against the glass, clutching at her slithery body, kissing her frantically. She kisses him back with ardor, wrapping her dripping legs around his back.”
Angelina Jolie’s late mother left grandchildren Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh $100,000 each in her will, new court papers have revealed.
Marcheline Bertrand died in 2007 and movie beauty Angelina and her brother James Haven were co-executors of her estate.
They filed the final paperwork in LA in Monday, revealing Marcheline’s parting gift to her grandchildren.
She also left $25,000 each to her sister, brother and nephews.
In her will, Marcheline wrote: “I give the residue of my estate in equal shares to my beloved son James Haven, and my beloved daughter Angelina Jolie.”
The papers reveal her estate was worth approximately $661,000.
Chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and her actress partner Portia de Rossi have topped a poll that asked American mums which celebrities they would feel most comfortable leaving their kids with.
DeGeneres and de Rossi, who are married but have no children, beat Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in the ParentDish.com poll of more than 10,000 mums.
The TV chat show host and de Rossi took 31 percent of votes, with singleton Jennifer Aniston coming in second at 22 percent. Jolie and Pitt got 18 percent of votes, while chat show queen Oprah Winfrey got nine percent.
Former Alias star and mum-of-two Jennifer Garner won the best celebrity mother poll with 37 percent, followed by first lady Michelle Obama and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon in a tie.
In a close battle for worst celebrity mum, rocker Courtney Love just edged out Lindsay Lohan’s mother Dina and pop star Britney Spears.
