Angelina Jolie Archives

Angelina Jolie, dressed in a black skirt and shirt, picks up 3-year-old son Pax Thien Jolie on Thursday at the Tam Binh orphanage outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She was protected by a host of security offiers, including her own personal security guard, Mickey Brett.

According to one Vietnam newspaper, Angelina Jolie’s new adopted child is named Pham Quang Sang. After adoption papers have been finalized, it seems that Sang Pax will be welcomed into the Jolie-Pitt family with open arms.

Nguyen Van Trung, the director of Tam Binh Orphanage, revealed that Angelina and Maddox made an emotional 30-minute visit to pick up Sang Pax.

Angelina and Maddox were welcomed by the orphanage by about 20 flower-bearing children dressed in traditional Vietnamese tunics.

“They tried to make friends with the Vietnamese boy, who cried when he saw them because for him, they are strangers,” Trung said. “Jolie was very moved. Both of them tried to comfort the little boy.”

The orphanage staff has tried, without success, to locate Sang’s Pax’s parents.

Sources also reveal that Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh are all in Vietnam. There have been no sightings of Brad Pitt because “Brad very much wanted to be there but is under contract working on a film in Los Angeles and as a result couldn’t go,” says Trevor Neilson, Angelina’s adviser on international affairs.

Angelina and her kids are currently staying at Park Hyatt Hotel, where she and Brad Pitt stayed during their first trip to Ho Chi Minh City during Thanksgiving.

UPDATE :: Angelina has renamed her son to Pax Thien Jolie.

Angelina Jolie leaves from Ho Chi Minh City International Airport and is escorted through Vietnam with 5-year-old son Maddox under the protection of her personal security officer Mickey Brett. Here’s Angelina’s expected agenda during her stay:

• Travel to Tam Binh orphanage outside Ho Chi Minh City to receive 3-year-old child (most likely a boy)
• Participate in an adoption ceremony with officials in Ho Chi Minh City
• Meet with U.S. consular officials to review the adoption and grant the child a passport.

It appears that Brad Pitt is home in L.A. taking care of his two daughters, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 10 months.

If all goes according to plan, officials say Angelina Jolie could bring her newly adopted child home from Vietnam by the weekend.

Angelina is expected to arrive in Vietnam late Wednesday night and attend an adoption ceremony with Vietnamese officials on Thursday morning.

The 3-and-a-half-year-old boy Angelina is expected to adopt has been living at the Tam Binh orphanage (pictured) on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Angelina Jolie’s adoption application is being processed quickly and she could pick up her new 3 1/2-year-old son within a few weeks, Vietnam’s top adoption official said Tuesday.

The adoption is being processed quickly because the boy is an older child, and his files were nearly complete before Angelina decided to adopt.

The boy was abandoned at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital as a baby and is currently at the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.

One orphanage official said of the boy, who likes to play soccer with the other children: “He is in good health. He is a little bit shy.” The Pitt soccer team is on its way!

Angelina has two adopted children — Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2 — and one daughter with Brad Pitt — Shiloh, almost 10 months.

“If I can draw you in a little because I’m familiar, then that’s great. As long as [you] end up looking at them, that’s the point.” — Angelina Jolie on the power of celebrity.

Here are some of the highlight’s from Angelina Jolie’s recent trip to a camp housing Darfur refugees in Chad via Newsweek:

…But you do have photographers following you now. It took me a while to agree to do it. I guess I saw that so many times the picture comes before the knowledge and the substance and I certainly didn’t want to do that to myself or the organization. And also, I really just was shy. I was shy about sitting on the floor and talking to a woman and having a camera take a picture because I thought it was making less of my conversation with her. But… I was changed by the faces of the people I saw. “It is something that I am incapable of describing…those faces and that place and those people. And so I think it’s just—let the people speak for themselves through the camera. And if I can draw you in a little because I’m familiar, then that’s great. Because I know that at the end you’re not looking at me, you’re looking at them.
Do you still go with so few people? I can’t believe you take no one with you… I take no one. I [go] by myself on a commercial plane and into the field with my backpack.
You still do that? Yes, I just did that on my last trip. I met the photographer there.
In the camp? No, in the airport. We didn’t even realize we were on the same flight. We landed at like midnight and got up at like 5 in the morning to catch the WFP [World Food Program] plane [to a town near the camp].
People will look at these pictures of you in Chad and ask, “What can I do?” What should they do? There are great NGOs like SOS [Austria's SOS Kinderdorp] and there are great NGOs inside and under the U.N. that you could send aid to. It’s important for the American people to know that a lot of people believe—I certainly believe—that it has been their outcry and their interest that has motivated our government. I think that the American people have paid attention to Darfur—a really amazing groundswell of people that really care, and are moved and emotional about the things they’ve seen when it is brought to their attention.

For the very first picture of Angelina Jolie from this trip in Chad, CLICK HERE!

For Angelina Jolie’s full interview with Newsweek, CLICK HERE!

For two videos of Angelina Jolie in action in Chad, CLICK HERE!

It’s a wrap!

It appears that Brad Pitt has finished filming his New Orleans scenes for upcoming movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His motorcycle collection was spotted getting shipped back to Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon. (Brad will continue filming scenes for Button in L.A.)

Looks like we can expect Brad and partner Angelina Jolie to relocate their family back to Los Angeles very soon! Since January, the Jolie-Pitt family has settled into their $3.5 million mansion in New Orleans.

And included in this entry are more pictures never posted here of Brad and Angelina out for a Monday morning stroll in the French Quarter with daughters Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 9 months. The first set of pictures can be seen here.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are making the proper arrangements to adopt a child (probably a baby boy) from from Vietnam and find a sibling for Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and 10-month-old Shiloh. The superstar couple and their big news make their way onto the cover of this week’s Us Weekly and People Magazine.

Us Weekly first reported the news last month but the Associated Press didn’t officially report on Angelina filing adoption papers until last week.

Brad, Angelina, Zahara, and Shiloh were last spotted out on a Monday morning stroll in the French Quarter while Maddox was in school.

Since January, the Jolie-Pitt family has settled into their $3.5 million mansion in New Orleans, where Brad has been filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (kissing another woman!). But soon they’ll return home to Los Angeles, where Brad will wrap up his Button filming.