Pitt and Jolie accept payout and apology for ‘split’ story

HOLLYWOOD superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have accepted undisclosed damages to settle their privacy action over claims that they were separating.

The couple were not at London’s High Court to hear solicitor-advocate Keith Schilling tell Mr Justice Eady that News Group Newspapers now accepted that each of the allegations was “false and intrusive”.

The actors brought an action for misuse of private information and breach of the 1998 Data Protection Act over a front-page story in the News of the World in January, “Pitts all over”, which also appeared online.