Jolie files for divorce from Pitt ‘for health of the family’

According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Jolie has asked for physical custody of the couple’s shared six children – Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox – and is requesting that Pitt be granted visitation rights.

Jolie is being represented by divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, who helped in her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton and has represented Johnny Depp in his divorce from Amber Heard.

After some seven years together, Pitt and Jolie made the decision to get engaged.

While Jolie has been largely focused on directing, Pitt has a string of movies lined up that he either produced or stars in. “She will not be commenting, and asks that the family be given its privacy at this time”, attorney Robert Offer said in the statement.

In August 2014, Jolie and Pitt exchanged vows in a small chapel at the Chateau Miraval, their Southern France home in the Provence hamlet of Correns. He and the Friends alum, 47, announced the end of their five-year union in January 2005. Months later, Jolie and Pitt went public with their romance.

But after the media upheaval, Jolie Pitt and Pitt eventually settled into their own unique kind of globe-trotting domesticity.

Their children include sons adopted from Cambodia and Vietnam and a daughter adopted from Ethiopia.

Jolie Pitt also launched herself as a film director.

Ironic now, but Jolie wrote and directed “By the Sea” about the dissolution of a handsome couple, falling apart over grief. It made a mere $538,000 at the box office domestically.

A source previously told Us that the A-list pair frequently fought over their different parenting styles, politics and scheduling. Read what she said and see if you think Angelina was foreshadowing the divorce! “You study it, you let it out, you attack each other and then you just want to hold each other and make sure you never behave that way”.

Jolie Pitt earlier this year finished shooting her fourth feature as director, “First They Killed My Father”.

The most sizable and immediate project upcoming is the Robert Zemeckis World War II romantic thriller “Allied” (opening November 23), starring Pitt and Marion Cotillard. The film, about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, is based on Loung Ung’s memoir of living under the Cambodian regime in the 1970s. Aniston also got their Beverly Hills mansion out of the deal, but Pitt was able to retain control of his Plan B production company.