Wired Exclusive: Ian Halperin’s “Brangelina” Interview
Ian Halperin, author of “Brangelina,” was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about his explosive book that is filled with details of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s life. From their affair while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston to their tabloid filled life, Ian has collected inside information on the couple who reign supreme in tabloids.
What do you think the fascination with Brangelina is?
People have never seen a couple this high profiled since Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. They are the top leading man and leading lady in the last decade who scream of beauty, intelligence, power, and sexuality. They are very sexy people. Not only American but the whole world has become enamored with them, especially in the tabloids.
In an interview you did with PopEater you talked about how the book is balanced in the sense it isn’t a hatchet job on the couple. Angelina is known for her dedication to charities and being a good will ambassador, yet you said she is “manipulative” and “scheming” can you give an example?
No matter what people believed there is no evidence of evilness. Manipulative - yes, but Evil - no. Manipulative in the sense that she did have sex with Brad Pitt while he was married to Jennifer Aniston and started their affair only weeks into filming. She has a history of stealing men from other women - Billy Bob Thorton from Laura Dern , Brad Pitt from Jennifer Aniston, essentially destroying her public image with women.
How many people did you talk to to get personal accounts and sources for the book?
916.
How willing were they to share personal details?
A lot were very willing. I didn’t use a lot of the information gathered during research because I wanted extreme collaboration. I was very picky about what went into the book.
With the entire Jennifer Aniston/Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie triangle…does she really care one way or another, or is Jen simply a thorn in side when it comes to the way the media views Jolie?
Essentially, Angelina brought it all upon herself. She became a home-wrecker in the eyes of housewives. I like to call her a Master of Misdirections like the magicians say about themselves. When her image is tarnished, she finds ways to turn it around. Angelina started the rumor that Brad left Jennifer because she didn’t want to have children and wanted to focus on her career when in fact Jennifer was desperately trying to get pregnant because she didn’t want to look like a man-stealing bitch. She even had her brother and her manager in on it, helping to fuel the rumors. There was no truth to the rumor and when Brad found out about it he was extremely upset about and told Angelina she needs to stop but by that time it was too late. People who were originally on Jennifer’s side were coming over to Angelinas side.
Is there anything in your book that could be damning to their marriage if Brad were to pick up a copy and read it?
Oh yea. I think he needs to pick up a copy of the book and read it because he is in for a shocker. Love is blind. Brad has no idea what he is involved in. He’ll find out that Angelina is an extremely sexual woman with a history of past drug use - LSD and heroin mainly - and about her suicidal threats, her lesbian affairs… He will be extremely concerned.
Do you fear any backlash from the book such as lawsuits?
No. Everything is easily backed up and a solid account. There is nothing to fear, it was very well researched. I’ve always said if you can find one thing in the book that isn’t fact, I would sleep naked in Times Square for one month.
Their split seems to be eminent. Who do you think will be the one to break things off?
I think it will be mutual. They just simply don’t get along. Its simple - they keep getting on each others nerves. When they decide to split, it will be mutual and they will figure out together what will be a good situation for the kids. I give them 1 - 1 1/2 years.
More of the Interview with Ian Halperin is After the Cut
You have got to be kidding me? This guy is the biggest hack on the planet. Um yeah, naked in Times Square? Easy. Angelina wasn’t pregnant with Shiloh in 2006 living in Miraval you flucking idiot. This guy takes already written tabloid stories and embellishes on them. He’s already served jail time for lying to a jury in another case about his “sources”
I would love to know why he thinks that Brad would be concerned over her previous drug use. That’s never been a secret. Halperin’s biggest problem is that Angelina has always been very open and honest about her past. She’s spoken about her drug experimentation (and her bisexuality and more) in numerous interviews.
Why exactly would Brad be shocked by this? I’m pretty sure he already knows since the rest of us all do as well.
Not only that, but Brad Pitt smokes pot!
Fuck Angelina’s nasty anorexic hypocritical diseased homewrecking ass… She will always be a bitch and an unhappy bitch no matter how much she gives to charities or how many babies she buys from other countries…
Fuck Brad even more than her… He is spineless and nothing more than a pussy whipped baboon who can’t stand up to a woman with no education or family life whatsoever… He leaves behind everything and any kind of normalcy he once had to living the life of a nomad and jumping from one place to another and walking around looking like he belongs on the street… He has aged dramatically since being with this dirty bitch and he deserves everything he gets
Jennifer Aniston, I believe this woman doesn’t give a flying fuck about neither of these idiots… The tabloids have magazines to sell so they’ll always drag her into it… And if it is true that she is in contact with Brad and hooking up on the low, then fuck her a million times over.
The only people who hate on this book are the people who desperately want to believe in the fairytale. The Brangelunatics who can’t see straight. The rest of us don’t even care except to wish that Brangie get whatever they deserve.
No way is Aniston still bothering with Pitt. Sure, she might send a card whenever he has another kid, but sneak around with him while he’s still living with AJ? Even if she wanted to she knows better than to give the tabs that kind of ammo.
Ian Halperin is a PROVEN liar, and fraud. He makes his living de-facing people who he does not know, spewing lies and hatred all over the world for his betterment. I don’t believe this crap for even one second. The people who do seriously need to get a life, they are no better than this snake.
And all of you “fans/normal people out there” (IE: ShaylaK) PLEASE… tell me when you met Pitt and Jolie, and how much time you have spent with them. Because honestly, you people are ridiculous. You DO NOT know these people, seeing them in movies, pictures of them on the red carpet, or reading the bs tabloid stories does NOT mean you know them. You are acting like you actually know them when you talk all your noise. Seriously, I get so tired of reading people’s comments about how blah blah blah Angelina is this, or blah blah blah Brad is this, or Blah effin blah Jennifer is this. YOU PEOPLE DON’T KNOW… so get over it and move on with your life. Gah.
Ian Halperin, YOU ARE A SNAKE AND I HOPE YOU LYING BOOK BOMBS AND YOU NEVER RECIEVE A PUBLISHING DEAL AGAIN…. It’s no less than you deserve. Honestly, just disapear from the public eye. No one needs, nor respects you, man.
How could Angelina have made up the story about Jennifer not wanting kids when all of Hollywood and the tabloid press had been accusing Jennifer of that for years before Brad even met Angelina. That is too stupid for words.
This Halperin really is a hack. It isn’t so much the subject matter it’s the source. I don’t believe him at all. He pretended he had records on Michael Jackson and that turned out to be an out and out lie. He makes up these sources like he did with Michael Jackson’s books.
Sal is right. It’s hilarious to see the venom these brangeloonie-tunes spew on cue any time their illusion is threatened. If this Halperin book wasn’t true B&A would have been able to put the kibosh on it just like they did the bodyguard’s book. But they couldn’t. So the Loonie-Tunes are desperate to kill the messenger. I couldn’t care less about what happens with their relationship - but it sure will be fun to watch Brangeloon heads explode when they finally do split. It’s not like I’m in danger of getting any brains on me, or anything.
What is the motive for writing this book? Ian Halperin doesn’t even know either Jolie or Pitt. Yet he cited highly inflammatory stories based on a bunch of people whose words were highly subjective. He wrote the book with the intention to destroy Brangelina and profit from it.
SO WHAT????HEY, MOVE ON . IAN HALPERIN IS A FATTY MONEY HUNGER AUTHOR. WITHOUT DIGGING SOMEBODY LIFE. HE WILL END UP HOMELESS
Did Ian Halperin hide inside Jolie and Brad underwears to learn their stories. It’s completed fake. Who is stuppid to buy those fake book? Hey Ian you can cheat naive people but not us. We don’t believed your book.I’s craps! SMART PEOPLE WON’T BUY IAN HALPERIN FAKE STORY BOOK
The people they hate to read this book because they know it is fake .They are smarter than the idiot people waste money to read the craps.
Ian Halperin spend time in jailed before because of his lied book. He might get into the jail one more time. who is stuppid to read his fake story??????
Ian Halperin tried to make money from the idiot readers. But not from the smart readers
Lauren E, eat my ass, drink a gallon of bleach then die a slow and painful death… Are one of those kids bought by these fucktards one of your abandoned kids that you left on the side of the road? I haven’t met them, you’re right… And neither have you… This is a gossip site where people talk shit about these over-paid illiterates… They have a job to do and that’s to entertain people with their mediocracy… And so does Ian… I’m sure most of his stories are lies, but guess what, he’s getting paid money he probably doesn’t deserve, but so are actors.
So fuck you to holy hell and these liars you so lovingly defend… Ho ho ho and Merry Xmas trick
HAHA. ShaylaK…. you are so mature, and totally helping yourself NOT look like an idiot.
Riiight…
It’s funny when people talk bad about Jolie-Pitt fans, saying we’re rabid and ridiculous… then when I ask when you met the couple, and how much time you have spent with them (which let’s face it, is a pretty good question, since you seem to know sooo much about their personal life), your response is “Lauren E, eat my ass, drink a gallon of bleach then die a slow and painful death…”
Hahaha, yes….. we fans of the Jolie-Pitts are the crazy ones….
Again, I say.. “Riiiight.”
You are a sad person, ShaylaK. Sad sad sad.
Also… the word “illiterate” means “1. unable to read and write. 2. having or demonstrating very little or no education.”
Honey, neither of these people are illiterate.
But, keep trying, by all means.
GO IAN HALPERIN!, I hope you make megabux from these two scumbags. They make megabux from us and then give it away to charity, tax free of course. They don’t use there own money, then go and tell the world how generous they are. Heaps of stars donate but don’t tell everybody, which shows brangelina for the manipulative, press hungry, money hungry asswipes that they are. Bout time somebody wrote what’s really going on.
I read the book. It was passed along to me and I found it an interesting read. Jolie strikes me as morbidly depressing, a downer, the world is a bad place, everything is a problem kind of person. She is very tiresome. Pitt strikes me as a fun loving frat boy but with an earnest Mid-West do-gooder streak. They just don’t suit each other except that perhaps the sexy thing got them together and maybe the little boy, Maddox, seduced him as much as she …
Anyway, imho, she is just way out of line with her indictments of the administration on Darfur etc. She’s Hollywood and those types all think that that because a million people see them play acting that these same people are interested in their opinion. Nope. Just take your clothes off, point and shoot, and let us fantasize for an hour or so.
Most of us form opinions from educated people who know more than she can hope to learn in her lifetime.
Ian Halperin has no real sources what so ever.