Angelina Jolie, 51, says she hasn’t been in a romantic relationship since splitting from Brad Pitt in 2016, speaking candidly about keeping her focus on her children as their long-running divorce and winery fight continue in the background.
Angelina Jolie’s New York evening was about her new work, but her interview remarks pulled readers back to a more private timeline—one marked by a high-profile divorce that began splitting her life in 2016 and never fully ended.
At 51. Jolie discussed her dating life in a recent interview. saying she has not been in a romantic relationship since she separated from ex-husband Brad Pitt in 2016. “To be candid, I haven’t dated since I divorced a decade ago,” she shared. She added that she gets “in [her] head” about that part of herself when she’s trying to center her life around “my children. my family.”.
Jolie and Pitt married in 2014 and share six children: twins Vivienne and Knox, 17; daughters Shiloh, 20, and Zahara, 21; and sons Pax, 22, and Maddox, 24. The relationship’s end didn’t arrive quietly. The couple separated in 2016, and the divorce has stretched into years of legal conflict.
Jolie has accused Pitt of physical abuse, including during a widely publicized plane incident in 2016 where she alleged he was violent toward her and their children. Pitt has denied the allegations.
Their courtroom conflict has also traveled far beyond the personal. For years, they have fought over Château Miraval, the French winery they once owned. In 2022, Pitt filed a lawsuit claiming Jolie’s sale of the property to an investment firm was unlawful. Jolie’s attorney. Paul Murphy. said she is “looking forward to defeating the case at trial next year so that their family can finally focus their energies on healing and moving on.”.
The legal battles have been running alongside Jolie’s professional grind. She has been promoting her new movie, “Couture,” in which she plays a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. In another recent conversation, she described how her children have helped steady her during that period.
“I think my fighting spirit is finally back,” Jolie told Variety. She said she “lost it for a bit” after feeling “taken down,” and that it’s returned “in large part thanks to my children, who are now older, and encouraging it.”
Jolie continued that her kids are “almost all 18,” and that they now want to see her travel the world—to “get out and do things.” She said they “know [her] more than anybody,” and that they “still like” her, adding that encouragement matters because it reminds her she has room again to be herself.
This is the shape of the story that keeps resurfacing in her comments: a life reorganized around family, while public legal fights and private healing move on at their own pace.
Before Pitt, Jolie was married to Billy Bob Thornton from 2000 to 2003 and to Jonny Lee Miller from 1996 to 2000. And now. with a new film taking her back into the spotlight—at events including a celebration for “Couture” at The Whitby Hotel in New York City—she’s offering a version of the dating question that is less about romance than timing. priorities. and what she says her children still mean to her.
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