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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie NOT in danger of losing Zahara

The rumors have been running wild across the Internet, and for good reason because several sources have cited that Angelina Jolie’s adoption of Zahara Jolie-Pitt was not entirely legal and that Zahara’s birth mother was still alive and wanted her back.

I am so disgusted by these so called sources. Today an article came out via Reuters, explaining that this is not true.

Angelina Jolie’s adoption of an Ethiopian baby was legal, the agency involved said on Thursday, rejecting reports that the child’s relatives want her back.

Newspapers have reported this week that relatives of two-year-old Zahara, including a woman who says she is her birth mother, want the child returned to Ethiopia. Jolie adopted Zahara in July, 2005.

“The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the document her grandmother wrote … saying her daughter, the mother of Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up,” Tsegaye Berhe, the head of Wide Horizons for Children, which conducted the adoption, told Reuters.

“The grandmother brought three witnesses to court who testified that Zahara’s mother had died and that her father was unknown … The court also investigated the social status of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt before approving the adoption.”

Tsegaye said the adoption was “legal and irrevocable”, and he blamed reporters who he said had paid the relatives to raise the dispute.

“The controversy is media hype by unethical journalists exploiting the poverty of the grandmother,” he said.

In essence, what that means is that these papers and tabloids are so desperate to dig up dirt on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie that they PAID people in Ethiopia to lie in order to create a story. I can’t blame the people over there who went along with it because if I was that poor I’d probably do it too for some money to keep living. But there is no excuse for the trash on this side of the world that would pay people to make up such damaging lies. I guess constantly saying “they’re splitting up/no they’re getting married/they’re expecting quintuplets/they’re adopting fifteen kids at once!” is getting old so now they’ve sunk even lower than ever before.

I admire Brad and Angelina very much for their ability to ignore most of what the tabloids “report” and I guess that’s the only way to survive it, but this sort of story could have been very harmful had it not been cleared up, and in this case I’d love to see them sue and then turn around and give whatever money they win to the Addis Ababa orphanage.

(Article source from Reuters/Africa via Soulie Jolie. Photo via Google.)

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