Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and her newly adopted three-and-a-half-year-old Vietnamese son Pax Thien Jolie left Hanoi in a private jet with her entourage on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old actress was in Vietnam to wrap up Pax's adoption procedure. With this Pax joins her brood of two other adopted children five-year-old Cambodian Maddox and two-year-old Ethiopian Zahara and a one-year-old biological daughter Shiloh Nouvel she shares with partner Brad Pitt.
Pax, whose birth name is Pham Quang Sang, was issued an American passport and an immigration visa on Wednesday so he could head for his new home in Los Angeles, United States. The Vietnamese authorities had already cleared the adoption, and the US Embassy approved the adoption on Tuesday, said a spokesperson of the American adoption agency through which Jolie adopted Pax. When the process of adoption was on, Pax stayed with Jolie and her entourage at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi. According to a source in the hotel, Maddox and Pax got along well and were seen playing together even though they did not understand each other's language.
The boy was abandoned at a local hospital at birth and was then cared for at the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. On Monday, Jolie completed all the formalities when she visited US Embassy for concluding the paperwork for the adoption. Accompanying her on the tour to Vietnam were Maddox and Zahara, but Pitt was reportedly busy with his shooting schedules and opted out of the Vietnam jaunt. Incidentally, Vietnam does not allow unmarried couples to adopt and so, Jolie adopted Pax alone. The other three children are shared by the actress and her 42-year-old beau and have the surname Jolie-Pitt. The couple decided to adopt Pax when they had visited the Asian country in November last year.
Meanwhile, the actress, who shielded her new son from photographers throughout her stay in Hanoi, will reveal Pax to the world through exclusive photos in
Hello! magazine. The photos will show Pax playing with Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh and will be accompanied by an interview with the
Girl, Interrupted actress. Jolie will also share her experiences while adopting Pax with the readers of the magazine.
He is a very serious, very sweet little boy. You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings with new people and a new language. He is very strong, the magazine quoted the actress as saying. The mother and son appear on the cover of the magazine. The deal with
Hello! reportedly fetched the actress as much as US$2 million, which she plans to donate to charity, some media reports claimed. Earlier, Pitt and Jolie had sold exclusive pictures of their then newborn daughter Shiloh to a leading celebrity magazine for US$4 million, which they poured into their humanitarian causes.
As far as her career goes, Jolie recently signed a film, titled Wanted, with Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. She will play an assassin who trains a new recruit. Pitt, on his part, has signed on to play an investigative reporter in the murder mystery State of Play.
