The Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton Divorce

In July 17, 2002, Angelina Jolie filed for a divorce from husband Billybob Thornton in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Divorce papers were finalized in May. Today, Angelina Jolie is with actor Brad Pitt. She, while very busy with movie projects, is also very active with humanitarian activities. Billybob Thornton on the other hand is busy with shows and other movie projects.


Angelina Jolie is the daughter of awarded actor John Voight and Marchelind Bertrand. She was already exposed to movies while she was still very young. Inspired by films, she studied at the Lee Stratesberg Theatre Institute when she was 11. By the age of 16, she took up modeling and appeared in many music videos.

Angelina Jolie also starred in the movie “Hackers” with co-star Jonny Lee Miller, her first husband. The movie “Girl Interrupted,” in which she played opposite Winona Ryder, gave her her very first award as Best Supporting Actress. She continued to pursue her acting career and landed a role in the movie “Pushing Tin” where she met her second husband Billybob Thornton.

Billybob Thornton, a premier actor, is 20 years older than Jolie and already had 4 failed marriages. But this did not stop the both of them from getting married.

The couple Thornton and Jolie were very open about their sexual activities to the public. They also had each others name tattooed on their body. Billybob and Angelina had this ritual where they wore vials of each other’s blood if they were not together.

When Angelina Jolie got the role of Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider,” something changed in her. One of the locations of the movie was in Cambodia and there she said “I discovered things about what is happening in the world… Cambodia was really eye opening for me.” She adopted Maddox, an 11-month old Cambodian whom she and Billybob parented.

But there came a point in their marriage when trouble had started to brew. They had not been seeing each other for 4 months already and had started living apart. Jolie filed the divorce records and papers in July 17, 2002.

Data about Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton from Divorce Records

Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Billybob Thornton due to irreconcilable differences. In the divorce records, it is stated that Angelina Jolie had wanted to keep "miscellaneous jewelry and other personal effects." According to the marriage divorce records she also wanted to keep her earnings from the day she and her husband Billybob separated.
A premise on the divorce records also showed that Angelina wanted to have full physical and legal custody of their adopted child Maddox while giving Billybob visiting rights. The divorce records were processed and finalized. By May 27, 2003, Jolie and Thornton were singles again and with Jolie having two failed marriages and Thornton five.

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