Angelina Jolie pregnant with Brad Pitt’s child

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Angelina
Jolie is pregnant with a child fathered by her long-rumored
paramour, actor Brad Pitt, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Publicist Cindy Guagenti also confirmed reports that Pitt
has filed papers to become the legal adoptive father of Jolie’s
two adopted children, son Maddox, 4, and daughter Zahara, who
is about 10 months old.

Guagenti confirmed Jolie’s pregnancy but declined to give
further details, including when the baby was due, or to say
whether the couple had plans to marry.

Representatives for Jolie were not immediately available
for comment.

News of Jolie’s pregnancy was first reported on Wednesday
by People magazine, which quoted the actress as telling a
charity worker in the Dominican Republic, where she is working
on a movie, “Yes, I’m pregnant.”

The magazine said the 30-year-old actress is expecting her
baby this summer.

Pitt, 42, and Jolie met while working together on the film
“Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” in which they played married assassins
ordered to kill each other.

They have been romantically linked in the media since 2004
and the rumors heated up after Pitt and his ex-wife, former
“Friends” star Jennifer Aniston, split up last January.

Pitt’s divorce became final in October but he and Jolie
have until now publicly denied being anything more than
friends.

Jolie, who won an Academy Award as best supporting actress
for playing a psychiatric patient in “Girl, Interrupted,” was
divorced from actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2003. Before that she
was married to actor Jonny Lee Miller, who she divorced in
1999.

A spokesman for Aniston said the actress would have no
comment. “Jennifer is not in the practice of commenting on the
lives of other people,” he said.