Angelina's Press Muzzle -- The Document

TMZ has obtained the now infamous letter that Angelina Jolie's reps sent out to the press in advance of interviews for "A Mighty Heart" -- and the range of demands is stunning.
Jolie stifles press: read the docs
To begin with, the document, sent from the office of attorney Robert Offer, demands that the interview be used only "to promote ["A Mighty Heart"]," and not "in connection with any other story." What's more, the letter tries to compel reporters not to use the interview " in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning or derogatory to Ms. Jolie," without specifying what that might mean. All this on top of no questions about "personal relationships," which presumably could mean any other human being on the face of the planet.

Yesterday, on "The Daily Show," Jolie disavowed the contract, which was first reported by FOX News, calling it "excessive," adding that it was her handlers, not she, who sent it out. USA Today and the AP, among other organizations, refused to sign the document.



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61. People forget that Brad wanted a family. Very badly. No one knew how bad he wanted one until now. Jennifer and he just didn't share the same vision. Angie way ahead of Jennifer. She has so much more "depth" to her. The way she speaks about the vision for the future and what is important in a relationship. She has more maturity. Jen is a sweetheart girl, and I like her but I can see why Brad left her. There "visions" were just not the same.

Posted at 7:04PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Lori

62. Siit on that and smoke it Just An Idiot Observer, you don't have your facts straight. It was Brad's money and Angelina got paid very little as she said on Larry King last night. Take that and suck it. You're an idiot.

Posted at 7:09PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Just an Observer

63. Angelina has been caught in so many other lies, why is this news? And people don't condemn her for adopting kids, they rightfully question why she collects them like toys, then dumps them on the help and in shoves them into daycare, dragging them all over the world and hustling them into one new daycare after another. Kids need stability, and if she is going to uproot them from all they have known, she should have enough compassion to understand that they need stability. Instead, they get drug all over the place and stranger after stranger enters their lives to care for them. When they are home, they are in daycare. Yeah Angelina calls daycare "school" - another lie. Didn't Angelina say she was going to take a year off? She has no idea how to be a mother and she lies about being an at-home mother WHILE SHE IS OUT MAKING MOVIES BACK TO BACK! This is why she doesn't like personal questions, all the lies are so obvious.

Angelina - go find another woman's husband to snag, make Brad a happy man finally! Angelina is nothing but trash and a lousy mother. She shouldn't be allowed to buy anymore kids.

Posted at 7:11PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Uri

64. Angelina is a fraud and a phoney .. ADOPT IN THE USA IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA .. we have enough children who need homes here .. we can get 14 kids for her .. did you see the Larry King interview and how she stumbled over some fine queries .. she is a fake. AMONG OTHER WORSE THINGS SHE IS

Posted at 7:31PM on Jun 15th 2007 by VAL

65. #31 - if you watched the news you would see that Prince William and Prince Harry are doing a "no holds barred" interview and have said they will answer ALL QUESTIONS no matter how personal. Apparently they don't mind being honest and can think for themselves and don't need everything rehearsed and staged beforehand. They are PRINCES - you know, ROYALTY - and AJ is in no way in their league

Posted at 7:40PM on Jun 15th 2007 by check your facts

66. #41 Just an observer - the BIGGEST difference between AJ and the Arkansas family is that the Arkansas woman is a FULL TIME MOTHER who doesn't pawn her kids off on other people to raise!

Posted at 7:55PM on Jun 15th 2007 by check your facts

67. just an observer ....the Arkansas lady is a full time mom who raises her kids herself. also, she is a christian who doesn't lie all the time and isn't obsessed with herself.

Posted at 7:54PM on Jun 15th 2007 by jill

68. I wish that Brad and Angelina would quit trying to help other people. No one cares how many kids in Ethiopia or Cambodia die, for God's sake. And no one really cares if people in New Orleans have their homes rebuilt. I'm offended that they seem to have this drive to make the world a better place. Look, if you were dumb enough to be born into poverty, whether here in the US or in some third world country, well, that's your own damn fault. I don't know about anyone else, but it offends my sensibilities that these two seem to think that they should use their celebrity status to help those less fortunate. Do like the rest of us - only worry about yourselves!!

Posted at 8:01PM on Jun 15th 2007 by EngineeringMonkey

69. These demands are NOT unreasonable at all and are clearly necessary to have in writing, as the media has a knack of turning an interview into an inquisition. I can see them starting to ask her about her lesbian lover, or perhaps the blood at her wedding to Billy Bob or some such nonsense. The media pushes the envelope way too much making documents of this nature logical and necessary. Go Jolie!

Jolie is actually one of the "good people" in hollywood, give her a break and stop trying to pull news from your unmentionable orifice! What is this the Perez Hilton site now. Come on guys.. .TMZ, you are better than that.

Posted at 8:03PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Tricia

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68. Angelina is a fraud and a phoney .. ADOPT IN THE USA IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA .. we have enough children who need homes here .. we can get 14 kids for her .. did you see the Larry King interview and how she stumbled over some fine queries .. she is a fake. AMONG OTHER WORSE THINGS SHE IS

Posted at 7:31PM on Jun 15th 2007 by VAL
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I totally agree - those little brats have no business being adopted by US parents. Lord knows there are pleny of well to do people in Ethiopia and Cambodia and Viet Nam that were sure to adopt them. Isolationism baby!!!! They were born to impoverished countries and gosh darnit, they should have to die there!!!

Posted at 8:07PM on Jun 15th 2007 by EngineeringMonkey

71. How ironic.

Jolie censors the press while promoting a movie about Daniel Pearl, who had his head sawed off by Islamofascists for reporting the news. (What about "there is no GWOT" don't I understand?)

What an affected, hypocritical twit that uber-skinny, uber-veiny, uber-vain broad is.

Team Jon Voight!

Posted at 8:15PM on Jun 15th 2007 by GirlWithTheCurl

72. Well, she's doing some major damage control and back pedaling now.

Posted at 8:15PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Jean

73. Public figures, ranging from the rock group, Hanson to the (representatives of ) Royal Family, have requested that photographers (in the former instance) and reporters (in the latter) sign similarly onerous contracts.

No journalist worth his or her salt would do so.

Conversely, it has been written that "journalists" who agreed, as a precondition of an opportunity to interview Reba McEntire at the time of her divorce from Charlie Battles, to refrain from asking McEntire about the divorce violated the agreement.

That is equally unprofessional.

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Posted at 8:22PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Stacy Harris

74. She's trying to cover her a$$, and having her attny take the blame. She knew what she was doing. It backfired. She had no choice but to retract...A little too late. She is not all she thinks she is...If she's going to have 7-14 more kids, do more movies, who is suffering here? I think kids are more an obsession than anything else. The kids will suffer from not having one on one attention. Maybe I'm wrong..Could someone tell me why a person would want to have 18 kids (if she has 14 more)? Even if she can afford them, why can't 4 make you happy? It's about greed. Brad makes enough money for her to stay home and raise the ones she has now. I suppose acquiring kids has replaced the cutting of herself... If she has all this love in her heart, why can't she try to make amens with her Dad? He wants to be apart of his grandchildren's lives, and she is denying it. She is a big phoney....always has been.

IMO

Posted at 8:30PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Heidi

75. Ahhhhh - to be totally protected from society's ills.

Posted at 8:43PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Kay

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