Showbiz shows oddly silent on Angelina book

Full View An affair Jolie's famous father Jon Voight had with starlet Stacey Pickren when Jolie was only a few months old tore apart her family life and set her on a path of teenage rebellion, according to the book. Her mother Marcheline Bertrand moved out of the posh Beverly Hills high-rise where baby Angelina lived with her dad and was taken care of by nannies. A bitter Bertrand rarely came to see her daughter during the first year of her life because Jolie reminded her too much of her philandering husband, Morton says. "She separated herself from that child because she looked a lot like Jon," he writes. The author traces Jolie's battle with heroin, cocaine and anorexia during her teens and early 20s, her bisexuality, the loss of her virginity at age 14 to a boy named Anton – whom her mother let move into their house – and her addictive romantic relationships with men and women....  

Full View Angelina Jolie has lived a life of contradictions. Now a goodwill ambassador and one of the world's most celebrated actresses, she's blessed with six beautiful children (and one Brad Pitt), but she was once also a heroin addict from a shattered home who went on to steal other women's husbands. This -- and so much more -- according to the forthcoming bombshell tell-all about the actress, 'Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography,' by the master of such celebrity dirt-fests, Andrew Morton. Leaked excerpts from the book are fueling so much hype that publisher St. Martin's Press has moved up its release date from Aug. 3 to July 31, says USA Today. Critics cite the lurid details of the 35-year-old star's childhood as the most compelling morsels Morton throws his readers....  

Full View Brood: Angelina with her children (left to right) Maddox, Zahara, Pax Thien and Shiloh arrive in Japan for an exciting visit Her second union was actor Billy Bob Thornton, but she became infuriated at his independence. Such was her frustration that, at her own request, she checked into the neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA Medical Centre for 72 hours of monitoring. The book also describes the time she supposedly hired a hitman to murder her. The would-be-killer was not persuaded she wanted to do it and told her to think about it for a month, which she did, and changed her mind. Towards the end of her mother's life, the two achieved a semblance of normality, in part caused by the birth of her children....  

Full View Frosty relations: Angelina with her actor father Jon Voight and brother James Haven in 1998. Voight's affair is said to have led to her mother rejecting her Bertrand was allegedly furious that Jolie's father, the actor Jon Voight, had had an affair, and took it out on their daughter because she looked like him. The biography claims that she didn't accept the little girl back into her life until she was three, and says the episode left a deep psychological scar on Jolie. The allegations are made in Andrew Morton's unauthorised biography of the 35-year-old Tomb Raider star, which is due to be published in the U.S. this week.    More......  

Full View Family affair: Angelina Jolie with her mother Marcheline Bertrand in 2001. Marcheline died in 2007 Jolie was raised by a changing guard of babysitters for two years. Home became like an 'ivory tower', with Jolie remaining on the fifth floor while her mother lived on the second. According to Ms Morel, Bertrand 'separated herself from Angie because she looked a lot like Jon'....  

Full View A-list stars Angelina and Brad Pittt. The book contains revelations about how they got together...