A new primary school built with a $75,000 donation from Angelina Jolie has just opened in Tangi, Afghanistan.

Angelina donated the money about a year and a half ago, after making an emotional visit to the refugee settlement. The eight-classroom school will accommodate roughly 800 girls, whose parents are concerned about schooling them with boys for cultural and security reasons.

UNHCR, UNICEF, and local education authorities are currently working together to recruit teachers and buy textbooks for the students. They are also making plans to accommodate secondary school students at the same school in the future.

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According to that new Angelina Jolie tell-all book ‘Brad Pitt and Angelina: The True Story’ by Jenny Paul, Angelina had flings with Mick Jagger, Colin Farrell, and many others before meeting her current partner, Brad Pitt.

The book claims that Angelina had slept with Mick a number of times during her marriage to Jonny Lee Miller (and his marriage to Jerry Hall), and then again shortly after her split from Billy Bob Thornton. This info supposedly comes from some of Angelina’s “friends” and her mother’s ex-boyfriend. Jenny also reveals a relationship between Angelina and Colin Farrell in 2004. That apparently ended when Angelina felt that Colin’s drinking was becoming a bad influence on her son Maddox.

The book also claims that Angelina and Brad will have a total of 13 kids.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter Shiloh is turning out to be quite the expensive little tomboy. According to a source in Paris, Shiloh convinced Brad to take her to Bonpoint boy’s clothing store, where she picked out over $10,000 worth of little boy’s clothes.

Sources say that Shiloh actually bought out the entire Spring/Summer 2010 Bonpoint boys collection. Brad’s older daughter Zahara opted for dresses and skirts at Bonpoint’s girl’s store across the street.

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Angelina Jolie has reportedly dropped $18,500 on a 200-year-old olive tree for Brad Pitt.

It was supposedly an early Valentines Day present for Brad. Angelina bought the tree from a way overpriced nursery called The English Garden Centre in Valbonne, and had it planted at their $60 million home in France. According to a source, “it’s a very special tree”.

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Angelina Jolie is reportedly in the Dominican Republic right now, speaking with the country’s president, Leonel Fernandez about the crisis in Haiti. Angelina also visited a local hospital to speak with Haitian refugees about the earthquake.

Angelina and Brad Pitt reportedly donated $1 million in aid money to Haiti over the last few weeks.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have filed a lawsuit against News of the World for publishing a story claiming that the couple had split.

The suit was filed by the pair’s London lawyer Keith Schillings, after the publication refused to retract their story. Keith called the report a “false and intrusive allegation”. No word yet on how much they’re suing for.

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Angelina Jolie and her brother James Haven released a video yesterday, paying tribute to their mother Marcheline Bertrand who passed away three years ago today.

The video was recorded during a trip that the three took to Hawaii in 1981.

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According to a number of different sources, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have really broken up, and have already signed a deal dividing up $322 million in assets that they currently share. The document also outlines custody arrangements for their six kids.

The sources say that the agreement, drafted up by one of the top divorce lawyers in Hollywood, will give both parents joint custody of their children, but will allow them all to live full-time with Angelina.

The pair, who have been dating for about five years, were last seen in public together in NYC on January 6th.

Update: The couple’s rep is denying these rumors.

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A number of celebrities, including Wyclef Jean, Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitt are stepping up to raise awareness for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

Wyclef, whose Yele Haiti foundation is currently helping the island’s injured and displaced citizens, released a statement urging the US military to send resources over to help.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie also issued a joint statement today, vowing to help Wyclef’s organization bring aid to the homeless and injured people.

You can text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to help with relief efforts. The website www.yele.org is also accepting donations.

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Angelina Jolie just lost her job as the face of St. John, and according to chief executive officer Glenn McMahon, the decision was made because Angelina “overshadowed the brand”. Glenn added,

We wanted to make a clean break from actresses and steer away from blondes and cleanse the palette. We needed to show a modern point of view of St. John. We have evolved.

Model Karen Elson (wife of White Stripes’ Jack White) was hired on as a replacement. The new ads will launch in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue in their February issues.

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Angelina Jolie’s kids picked up a little pocket change from Ange’s mom’s will last week.

The kid’s grandmother Marcheline Bertrand, who died from cancer in 2007, left Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh $100,000 each. The money is currently sitting in a trust fund, which will be accessible to the kids when they turn 25.

Angelina’s other children, Pax, Knox, and Vivienne did not receive an inheritance from Marcheline because her will was last updated in 2006 before they came into the picture.

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According to their 2008 tax return, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave a lot of money to charity last year - $6.8 million to be exact, which came to a little more than half of their $13 million income.

The money was donated to a variety of different charities through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, including $2 million to The Global Health Council, $1 million to Brad’s Make It Right foundation, and another $1 million to the Human Rights Watch. The couple also game smaller sums of money to The Armed Services YMCA of the US Army, several schools in Brad’s hometown of Springfield, Missouri, and a few charities in Cambodia, where their son Maddox was born.

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Aysha Shahin, a worker at SOS Children’s Village - the orphanage that Angelina was rumored to be adopting her seventh child, spoke out over the weekend, and insisted that Angelina and Brad had only visited the orphanage to meet the kids, and that they had no plans to adopt from them. Aysha told Hello! magazine that their orphanage doesn’t even do adoptions. She said,

We do not do adopting. I have not heard of any plans for her to adopt here in Jordan and in Syria it would be impossible.

Angelina did not talk about adoption. She just wanted to play with the kids. She is a sweetheart - one of our greatest supporters.

Angelina and Brad, who have been donating money to the orphanage for six years, spent their visit playing, singing songs, and talking about school and movies with the kindergarten-aged kids.

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According to WWD, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been designing a gold and silver jewelry and accessory line called The Protector for Asprey for about a year now. The line was apparently inspired by snakes, see above.

Prices will start at $525 dollars, and pieces include a silver snake spoon, an eggcup, and a toothbox for non-third-world-country babies. The line will also offer some wares for adult rich people, like rings, pendants, and a picture frame.

Sources say that Angelina decided to go with the snake theme because she had been given a snake ring when she was pregnant with Shiloh, and she assumed that the snake had protected her family.

Profits from the sales of the new line will go to benefit the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which helps to provide education for children caught in wars and natural disasters. The items will go on sale at Asprey stores in London, New York, Beverly Hills, Tokyo and Dubai this week.

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Some spokesperson for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington claimed today that Angelina Jolie recently filed adoption papers to bring home a Syrian baby. According to the source, Brad Pitt’s name was not on the application.

Another source close to the Jolie-Pitts revealed that Brad was against the adoption because he felt that seven kids would be too much to handle.

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