LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are suing a London newspaper that claimed they were headed for a breakup.
The couple's lawyer, Keith Schilling, confirmed Monday to the BBC that Pitt and Jolie have taken legal action against the News of the World. The lawsuit stems from a January story in which the paper claimed the couple had met with a divorce lawyer and reached an agreement over the dividing of their assets and custody of their six children.
Schilling called the "widely republished" allegations "false and intrusive." The attorney said the suit was filed after the News of the World failed to meet "reasonable demands" for an apology.
Sorrell Trope, a Los Angeles divorce lawyer who was identified in some media reports as the lawyer representing the couple, also denied the claims, saying he had never been in contact with the couple.
"I have had no contact from... Angelina Jolie and / or Brad Pitt," Trope said in a statement Schilling provided to the BBC. "I have never met... your clients or had any involvement with either of them. The foregoing is true with respect to all other members of this firm."
News of the World has yet to comment on the lawsuit.
On Sunday, Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, were all smiles as they took their 8-year-old son Maddox to the Super Bowl.
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