Pitt, Aniston formalize split, divide belongings, assets

LOS ANGELES: Former celebrity Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have formally agreed on their $60 million divorce settlement, according to news reports.

The agreement provides for Aniston to assume sole ownership of the couple's $29 million Beverly Hills mansion, while Pitt will have control of film company Plan B Productions. Aniston will retain a ''minor stake'' in the production firm, estimated to be worth more than $50 million. It had several hits recently, including Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Pitt and Aniston had split in January 2005 and filed for divorce in October following what they described as irreconcilable differences.

Aniston, who had memorable performance to her credit as Rachel Green in the long-running TV serial Friends, had married Fight Club star Pitt in July 2000 in an equally memorable fairytale wedding. After five years of a soap opera-like wedlock, they suddenly announced their separation after returning from a Caribbean holiday with their best friends Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

Soon, Aniston was dismayed to see publications reveling in stories about Pitt having a crush with another Hollywood flame, Angelina Jolie, his co-star in Mr and Mrs Smith. She said she was shocked and embarrassed although originally she believed in her husband's attempts to deny the relationship.

Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N., had disclosed to an aid worker in the distant Dominican Republic that she was pregnant with Pitt's child. She has two adopted children, a four-year-old boy, Maddox, whom she had adopted in Cambodia and a one-year-old girl, Zahara, whom she had adopted from Ethiopia. The children now carry surnames Jolie-Pitt.

Pitt, who is 42, is expected to marry Jolie, 32, before she delivers the baby. He is also rumored to be quitting acting and getting into movie production and looking after Plan B.

Aniston, who just turned 37, is now linked with Vince Vaughn, 35, her co-star in The Break Up.

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