Posted by Adam

Tuesday June 18, 2013

BRAD Pitt secretly checked into a hotel with Angelina Jolie — posing as a married couple — during promotion for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a lawsuit filed by Jolie’s stunt double against the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation has revealed.

At the time, Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston.

Eunice Huthart — the godmother of Pitt and Jolie’s daughter Shiloh — sued the media giant in Los Angeles on June 13 alleging her mobile phone messages were intercepted by the now defunct News of the World and The Sun newspapers.

Chief among her allegations are that no-one knew about Pitt and Jolie’s secret romance on the set of the 2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith except for her, the pair’s bodyguards and personal assistants.

“On April 1, 2005, while Plaintiff [Huthart] was in Los Angeles, a story appeared in The Sun entitled ‘Brad’s 4M Pad Is Jolie Nice.’ Upon information and belief, no one except Brad Pitt’s bodyguard, Ms. Jolie’s bodyguard, their respective personal assistants and Plaintiff knew that Brad Pitt and Ms. Jolie were now an ‘item’.

“Yet at the end of The Sun, it is stated: ‘Yesterday The Sun exclusively revealed [Brad] and Angelina checked into a hotel posing as a married couple during a weekend trip to plug their new movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith.’”

Aniston and Pitt separated in January 2005 but didn’t finalize their divorce until October that year, after four-and-a-half years of marriage. Earlier, he’d met Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and the pair was plagued by rumors that their fledgling relationship had caused the downfall of Pitt’s marriage to the Friends star

In the court documents, Huthart described she and Jolie as “close” friends who “often traveled and socialized together” and spent Christmas together in 2003 and 2004.

Jolie, Huthart said, once checked into a hotel under the pseudonym “Pocohontas” and had asked her to meet her, but the message was intercepted

The suit, filed in the United States District Court, cites another alleged incident of phone hacking, when Jolie “threatened to quit making movies for good” — a conversation she’d had with Huthart.

“On May 1, 2005, while Plaintiff was in Los Angeles, a story appeared in the News Of The World entitled ‘Pitt Stop For Jolie,’” the suit states.

“The News Of The World article began by stating, ‘Hollywood babe Angelina Jolie has threatened to quit movies for good.’ Ms. Jolie had communicated with Plaintiff on this subject prior to the article appearing in the newspaper and would leave messages on Plaintiff’s cell phone, some of which she did not receive.

“This was during the time Plaintiff believes her cell phone was hacked and the information contained in the article was privately shared with Plaintiff.”

Huthart’s civil complaint — she is seeking damages for violations of federal and California laws — is the first to hit News Corporation on United States soil after a rash of cases in Britain.

She accuses News Corporation of a surreptitious hacking scheme designed to “illegally extract, capture, obtain and exploit private information” from her and other targets in the United States for use in “boosting circulation of The Sun and News Of The World.”

“The messages left and stored on Plaintiff’s cellular telephone system when she was living and working in Los Angeles concerned private matters, which Plaintiff was entitled to keep confidential.

“Plaintiff had an objectively reasonable expectation that this private and confidential information and communications were intended solely for her and would not become published and/or made public and the actions and conduct of the Defendants were offensive to a reasonable person.”

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