OlderAngelina Jolie’s Mom Dies at 56
Marcheline Bertrand, French actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, died of ovarian cancer in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre after a 7.5 yearlong battle with cancer. (Age 56 as reported by IMDB.) Brad Pitt, Angie, and her older brother, James Haven, were at the hospital yesterday at the time Bertrand passed away.
Bertrand raised Angie and James after divorcing their father, Jon Voight (Angie was just a toddler at the time).
Our prayers and best wishes to the Pitt and Jolie family. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai.
Pictured: Angelina Jolie, with her mother Marcheline Bertrand, at her film premiere of Original Sin in Los Angeles on July 31, 2001. Angelina Jolie and her mom at LAX airport on August 4, 1998. Angelina Jolie outside the “National Art and Hobby” this past Friday.
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African Girl Says: January 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
understand we want to show our support but please refrain from telling people how much to donate. The last thing we want to do is discourage those who can’t afford that much from giving.. $1, $5, $10, $35, $1000….it doesn’t matter. It’s the act itself that counts.
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Hiya AG, ITA, people should just give what they can and like you said it is the act that counts; and I can’t believe that you went over to other Sites, I went to a couple of them yesterday and I am still sick to my stomach, sometimes I wonder if some of the people are even humans
MIKESMOM Says: OMG- I am so sorry. Being a mother of three, I can’t imagine the pain you went and are going through. Thank you for sharing your very sad story… Well now MIKE lives with all of us in memory, thanks again for sharing…..
Please post more often, we really are a very caring bunch until ___ well I won’t go there…
Hi guys - this is somewhat OT, but it pertains to what E! tried to do to Angie recently as well. I say GOOOO Niki!!
I think I’ll find a website and let her know she’s got thousands of BAMZS fans rooting for her to sock it to E! something fierce.
Niki Taylor: I was slandered by E! show
POSTED: 2:08 p.m. EST, January 29, 2007
Story Highlights• Niki Taylor sues E! over portrayal on “Blvd. of Broken Dreams”
• Model says life is far from what presented on show
• Taylor was in 2001 car accident, recently married race driver
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Niki Taylor filed a federal slander lawsuit against E! Entertainment for alleged intentional infliction of emotional distress with its profile of the model in the new series “Blvd. of Broken Dreams.”
The U.S. District Court suit, filed Friday, also alleged fraud, breach of contract and invasion of privacy claiming E! Entertainment representatives falsely claimed the show would focus on Taylor’s current life.
The cable network allegedly told Taylor and manager Lou Taylor, no relation, the show would feature current professional endeavors, including her signature fragrance, clothing line, upcoming cosmetics line and charitable foundation, the suit said.
Instead, the suit said, defendants E! Entertainment Television Inc., E! Networks Productions Inc. and a producer focused on Taylor’s past hardships and characterized her as a celebrity “who risked everything … and lost.”
The E! synopsis of the show on its Web site describes “Blvd. of Broken Dreams” as, “In a place between heaven and Hollywood, dreams turn tragic and fame goes sour fast.”
“My life is far from a ‘boulevard of broken dreams,’ ” Taylor said in a statement.
Last week’s premiere episode of “Blvd. of Broken Dreams” was repeatedly shown on the cable network despite demands from Taylor’s lawyers that it be pulled from the lineup, Taylor attorney Caroline H. Mankey said.
“They neglected their journalistic obligations to report truthfully and accurately; they violated express promises they made to the plaintiff, supermodel Niki Taylor; and they demonstrated a reprehensible disregard for the substantial harm their actions would cause to Ms. Taylor,” the complaint said.
*(Cliniqua interrupts, Hey Niki…they don’t CARE about any harm done you, or anyone else.)
Telephone voicemail and e-mail messages to E! Entertainment spokeswoman Sarah Goldstein weren’t immediately returned.
*(Cliniqua interrupts: Hey - this is the person we need to contact as well to let her know how abhorrent her station is, and how they are being boycotted!)
Through the ’90s, Taylor, 31, was an elite model appearing frequently in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and drawing numerous endorsement deals. She was critically injured in a near-fatal car accident in 2001, and recovered fully only after numerous surgeries.
Taylor and race car driver Burney Lamar married on December 27 at the Grande Colonial Hotel in the La Jolla area of San Diego. It was the first marriage for Lamar and the second for Taylor, who has 11-year-old twin boys, Jake and Hunter Martinez, from her previous marriage to former football player Matt Martinez.
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I hope she wins big!
Guli and Alexanderina
Hey ladies, how are you doing? Alex believe me…I don’t last more than 2 mins. I know now what they mean when they say “Curiosity Killed the Cat”
BBL…going home. There’s a chance it’s gonna snow here and I don’t want to be caught in traffic.
Please refrain from even mentioning the lady x.
SKEPTIC, JA does not want your pity remember? She’s a big girl far too busy with very important issues to dwell on herself. :-)
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Thank You Joy ~~~
It is a pain that never goes away, you find a place to in your heart to
carry it and you go on…… and thank God for bringing him into your life
for the length of time he was there…..and remember the good because
there was more good than bad….. like they say if it don’t kill you it will
make you strong…. and it has….. LOL
ps….. but today i cry…[smile] things like this bring it out of it’s hiding
place.
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CLINIQUA Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
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Although I didn’t watch it, I sort of hoped that JJ would post a GG thread, because I have something I really want to rage about, specifically E, but again, I don’t want to track b^ll$hit in here.
I think the entertainment industry take their entertainment too far that they forget that real human beings with feelings are involved. The love of money makes us hurt our fellow human beings. I thank JJ for keeping this place civil.
As I posted before, let’s all ignore the haters. They get off by responses.
http://www.myspace.com/francisbertrand
OJPF- ((((hugs to you)))), your post brought tears to my eyes, I hope you will be able to talk to your dad again, you know you can talk to him anytime now and you don’t need a phone number.
Joy- thanks for the cake :), Yeah, I have to pull leg, go down and dirty with her before she decided to stay for another few months, I’m trying to get her to continued after returning from her long long long long vacation, we will see, ;)
*working on a new strategy*, seriously though, it was nothing really, easy when you have someone so sweet as our Madame Mayor Guli, *whispered* she’s a push over for love, justice and everything Bamz.*hint*.
MIKESMOM-
I am so sorry to hear about your loss 26 years ago. As a mother of an only child, I can not imagine how you must have felt. You know God is watching over you. You will be reunited with your precious son one day. This earthly life here is very temporary and really very short. We need to love and support each other.
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African Girl Says: January 29th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I am doing good AG, just busy at work like always and thinking about Angie and her family. I am keeping them in my prayers and thoughts. I think I lasted about 30 seconds on a few sites yesterday and I have no intention of going back to any of those sites ever again.
Have a safe trip home AG and talk to you later
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Indie Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Thank you to every one that has called to make a donation on behalf of Angie’s mom. I called Cedars Sanai to make a donation and the guy that took my information said Angie must have really good fans because they have been getting a lot of calls from her fans making donations since yesterday.
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It’s great to hear but it is something we BAMZSERs knew all along.
I hope it will bring Angie some small comfort in knowing we about love her and her family.
Thank YOU ALL!!!!!
You all have been a lot of comfort and joy to me for some time now
i find you to be humorous, smart and loyal a total package family
as a lurker i find you all different with the same bond, like soldiers
you all fight a good fight… LOL
Oh and while I’m at it Cliniqua….please don’t ever change [smile]…PEACE!
Alex and AG- you are ban from going over those places….goodness, you do know what happened to the cat when it got curious right? :lol:
This was posted by xxbrad’sgirl8 on soulie jolie. dont know if anyone mentioned this before.
QUOTE(xxbrad’sgirl8 @ Jan 29 2007, 04:06 AM) *
I still can’t stop crying. Just wanted to share this.
On one of Angelina’s site, the poster (cristine) who was the first to post about Angie’s mom’s death yesterday (Saturday) before the media reported it this morning also had this to say:
okey let me tell you more. i’m a nurse and my best friend is also a nurse who had the pleasure and honor of taking care of, she said:” a very lively,down to earth always positive and very beautiful lovely woman” who looks like AJ who’s been battling cancer for almost 8yrs. Marceline was well loved by the nurses at cedars b/c of her great qualities. last nite at about 6pm my friend called to tell me that cedars is in so much in chaos b/c brad and angie were there and marceline just passed away. she said tons of paparatzis all around the hosp. that brads bodyguards cannot do anything, so they called the hospital security 2dozens of them came to contained the ppl around. brad and angie had to be taken by the heliport to be able to leave the hospital. also my friend told me that angie was crying hard and brad was w/ her the whole time embracing her not letting go. she said very obvious that brad is so much in love w/ the body language.also her brother james was there.no sign of jon voight.she also said that angie is thinner now than when she 1st saw her before. still very beautiful without make up. okey sweetie i hope this is enough info! talk to you later!
Hey AG and Alex, I am fine but very sad, but am so happy she has Brad and the kids and her brother to help her through this sad time, but I really hope that James can lean on Brad and Angie as well, he’s going to have a very hard time as well, those three were so close my heart just goes out to them…
So AG did you see Lainey rip into GC today? Sorry I had to sneak that in.
BTW— the other blog that I love posted this today!
http://brangelinafans.blogspot.com/
Cliniqua,
Thank you for the information on E & Nikki Taylor. I remember when she had the near fatal accident and she came through that completely. It was a long and hard road. How E can portray someone who survived this accident and is doing well as the opposite is beyond me.
I don’t know if you guys realized, but E!, after the bashing from you know who had the nerve to proclaim that they had an exclusive about Brangelina. It was Brad’s mention of having a family as large as a soccer team statement. That’s what E calls an exclusive? He has said this before.
Unfortunately, If Brad or Angelina took legal action like Nikki has, it would draw moths to the flame. Let’s hope that Nikki’s actions will bring attention & change the standards they currently have at that station.
My prayers are with James, BAMZS and Bertrand families through these sorrowful times.
Malibumom…
Your post was beautiful. Thank you for that.
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Estelle Says: January 29th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I know, I know Estelle, hanging my head in shame, but I promise I will never go back to those sites again :)
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Lady G Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
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Indie Says:
January 29th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Thank you to every one that has called to make a donation on behalf of Angie’s mom. I called Cedars Sanai to make a donation and the guy that took my information said Angie must have really good fans because they have been getting a lot of calls from her fans making donations since yesterday.
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It’s great to hear but it is something we BAMZSERs knew all along.
I hope it will bring Angie some small comfort in knowing we about love her and her family.
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Thanks so much Indie for letting us know that. I’m going to make my donation this evening. I was hoping Cedars Sinai is keeping track of Angelina’s fans and their donations — she needs to know how much she and her family are admired and loved.
I have a feeling before it’s over, between the bamzs fans here, not to mention the fans, kings, queens, and presidents worldwide, they will have to build a wing in Marcheline’s honor.
When it’s all said and done, I hope they release the amount.
Merhaba, Guli.
I like your posts about Turkey and learning some words here and there from your posts.
Ok Alex, you are off with a warning this time…. ;)
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aimee Says:
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I read this story several times now, and eventhough the story seems to be very touching and wonderful, ( thank you for reposting the story), I have doubt of its authenticity, just because I saw pictures of them driving out of what seems to be the hospital parking structure.
My deepest condolences to Angelina and her family - May Marcheline Bertrand rest in peace.
After reading all the beautiful prayers and personal stories in this thread, I felt relieved and comforted that the Jolie-Pitts are quite lucky to have an amazing fans that are truly great human beings…
I, too, want to share my own personal experience with losses (grieving and mourning)…
I used to work as a social worker in one of the hospitals here in NYC at a Cancer Unit. The cancer patients that I’ve met vary from ages and the kind of cancer they were diagnosed with. Some of my patients died few days after my first meeting with them, which was quite difficult on my part to process their losses, even though I knew that their deaths were imminent. Other patients survived a few months after being released from the hospital, while the lucky ones went into remission and live a fruitful life for years, until the cancer returns again. Yes, Cancer is a brutal disease – it does not pick and choose who gets it or not. I am hopeful that with the advancement of technology and research, we can combat all sorts of cancer in the near future.
In dealing with losses, it is always a tough situation (I used to run a support group for grieving survivors of cancer). People grieve in many ways – Often, the grieving process depends on the individual’s strength (according to the support system, traditions, culture, norms and upbringing). In other words, to grieve on a loss is a personal experience, and therefore, there are no right or wrong ways to process it, unless of course when one is blatant to be disrespectful. In most cases, our actions are motivated by our own personal wishes and wants (obviously, based on how we want to live our own lives). So, let’s be very mindful and be sensitive, that some may expressed their sorrows and grief in ways that others may dislike. Ultimately, we cannot dictate how people should expressed themselves, it is their rights, and you have your rights as well…. Let’s just all do what is appropriate….
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