Hollywood actor Brad Pitt Supports Organ Donation

While Angelina Jolie is busy being Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, life-partner, Brad Pitt, is encouraging people to put their body parts on the line with organ donation.

Pitt is one of many celebs who support organ donation.

Not ready to become an organ donor? Try donating blood, which is something you can do right now.

Professional snowboarder Chris Klug is just one of the many people who are living today because of organ donation. The Huffington Post reports that Klug received a liver transplant in July 2000 thanks to an anonymous donor.

Donate Life America makes it really easy to become a donor yourself. Find out how to become an organ, eye, or tissue donor by clicking on the state where you live. In California, it's as easy as checking "YES! I want to be an organ and tissue donor" when applying for or renewing your driver's license or ID card through the California DMV. If you want to be sure your wishes are heard loud and clear, The Gift of a Lifetime has a donor card you can download, sign, and carry with you in your wallet.

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Angelina Jolie's dark past comes back to haunt her as kinky S&M pictures emerge

She is on a promotional blitz for her new film Salt, but today Angelina Jolie received some unwelcome media exposure.

Never-before-seen pictures of the actress in a series of kinky S&M poses have been published in an American tabloid magazine.

Topless save for crosses of black tape across her breasts, she is seen posing provocatively with what looks like a leash around her neck.

In a separate frame, she has black tape strapped across her mouth and in yet another she wears a blindfold..

A black and white shot taken from behind shows her on a bed wearing just a G-string and cowboy hat.

The risqué pictures, said to be from 1999, were taken from an explosive unauthorised biography by Andrew Morton that is due for release next month.

The book makes a host of outrageous claims about the actress' past and her currently relationship with Brad Pitt.

Of course, Jolie, 35, is no stranger to scandal.

She famously French-kissed her brother James Haven at the Oscars in 2000 and once sealed her love for former husband Billy Bob Thornton with a vial of blood.

She has also admitted to lesbian liaisons, self-harming and cutting a lover in the throes of passion.

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Angelina Jolie: Brad Pitt "Always Makes Me Feel Sexy and Desirable"

A day after she flashed a lot of leg in a thigh-high Versace slit dress, Angelina Jolie covered up in a black spaghetti strap dress at a Salt press conference Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea.

"I think you feel sexy if you live an honest and bold life," she told reporters, according to the Korea Herald. "Maybe living life the way I've always lived it had something to do with that, but really, what makes me feel sexy is Brad. He always makes me feel sexy and desirable."

Jolie, 35, also praised Pitt, 46, for his parenting skills.

He's the reasons she's able to balance work and family life so well, she noted.


"I'm fortunate enough to work just a few months out of the year, and I have the luxury of having Brad help out as well," she said. "I have so much respect for everyday parents. For me and the best thing to do for myself is to combine my work and my children as much as possible."

She added that her kids are even accompanying her while she tours the world to promote Salt.

"My children are here [in Korea] enjoying their time, enjoying their Korean breakfast, watching baseball over their hotel windows, and playing in the swimming pool," she said.

During the press conference, Jolie also suggested there could be a Salt sequel.

"We're leaving it up to the fans," she said. "If the people want another one, certainly we'll give it to them."

The Oscar-winning actress famously replaced Tom Cruise in the movie about a CIA officer falsely accused of being a Russian agent.

Said Jolie, "I would love to revisit the role because we think there’s a lot more to the story. But we don't know where we'll go yet. We've talked about more exotic locations for one."

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Brangelina's New $40 Million House in Italy (photo)

Finding enough space to house Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and their six kids just got easier ... the Hollywood royal family just plunked down a reported $40 million on this humongous vacation home in Northern Italy.

The 8,000 square foot luxury estate in the town of Valpolicella, Italyincludes two swimming pools, gym, home theater and 15 bedrooms for their kidsMaddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox.

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Angelina Jolie needed 25 staff to run her household Chateau Miraval in France

Angelina Jolie needed more than 25 staff, it has been claimed.
The 'Salt' actress - who raises six children with partner Brad Pitt - reportedly needed a huge entourage to help out at Chateau Miraval, the French property she rented in 2008, including medical professionals, security guards and nannies.
Author Andrew Morton writes in his new book 'Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography': "The house was filled with nannies from Vietnam, the Congo, and the US; four nurses, a doctor on permanent call; two personal assistants; a cook; a maid; two cleaners; a busboy; four bodyguards, and six French former army guards patrolling the grounds."

Although the writer alleges Angelina barely saw her mother Marcheline Bertrand in her very early years, he believes the brunette beauty developed most of her parenting techniques from the way she was brought up.

He explains: "Marcheline separated herself from that child (Angelina) because she looked a lot like her husband Jon Voight.
"Angie based her child-rearing methods on what she could remember - or what she told herself - about her mother's skills.

"Like Marcheline, when the children behaved themselves, she gave them sticker stars that they could later exchange for treats."

Angelina's mother and father, actor Jon Voight, split up in 1976 and the actress and her brother were then raised by Marcheline.

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Angelina Jolie's Entourage of Kids arrive in Tokyo, Brad Pitt and the twins were nowhere in sight (Photos)

Angelina Jolie with her four adorable offsprings Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, Maddox, eight, and Pax, six, and five-year-old Zahara arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airportand for the Premiere of her Action movie Salt .

Shiloh certainly looked every inch a screen idol as she walked hand in hand with mother Angelina Jolie and siblings. All four children appear to have different styles, while their mother looks effortlessly stylish in a black silk dress and beige flip flops

However, there were some absences from the group as they walked through the airport - namely Angelina's partner Brad Pitt and their two-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.

It is thought Brad is looking after the youngsters while Angelina travels the world promoting Salt.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie splash out 32 million euros on Italian villa

Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have purchased for 32 million euros (41 million dollars) a sprawling villa near the north-eastern Italian city of Verona, a newspaper reported Monday.

The villa, situated in the heart of the Valpolicella wine-making area, boasts 15 rooms, seven bathrooms, a gym, a cinema hall and two swimming pools, Turin-based daily La Stampa said.

The exact location of the villa, which is set in grounds covering a total of 6,000 square metres, is not certain, La Stampa said.

However, the report said the building "is probably" the 16th century Villa Costanza situated near the town of San Pietro in Cariano.

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Angelina Jolie: Brad Pitt Is a "Wonderful Father"

They say behind every great man is a great woman. Angelina Jolie tells a different story.

"Brad is the word that makes it possible," said the Salt star during a Tokyo press conference when asked how she's able to balance both a career and raise a family of six kids.

"He's just a wonderful father," she adds.


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Angelina Jolie Stuns in Cleavage-Baring Red-Hot Dress at Moscow Salt Premiere

Angelina Jolie touched down in windy Moscow, Russia on Sunday for the premiere of Salt -- and her super sexy dress matched the red carpet.

The 35-year-old star wowed the crowd in a dramatic, cleavage-bearing Atelier Versace red halter neck chiffon gown with draped train and draped bust. For last week's L.A. premiere of the film, Jolie favored a black, sequined mini-dress by Armani. In Salt, the mom of six plays a CIA agent falsely accused of being a Russian spy.


The well-reviewed action flick had a strong first weekend in the U.S., nabbing an estimated $36.5 million in box office receipts. But the number one movie of the weekend was Leonardo DiCaprio's Inception, which garnered $43.5 million in its second weekend out.

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Angelina Jolie's accident on the set during Salt movie shooting

Angelina Jolie was left with a real headache during the filming of Salt.

The Changeling star suffered a bloodied injury following an accident on the set of the spy thriller, and had to go to hospital to have it looked at.

Director Phillip Noyce revealed to E! Online: "She took a dive with all the velocity that she needed to, but there was a TV monitor in her way and she collided with it and it hit her between her eyes. That's a moment when you don't know what to do or think until you get the report from the hospital. You know, you hit yourself right there and it looks like nothing but it could be something much worse."

The filmmaker wasn't sure if she had to be stitched up.

"I'm not sure if she got stitches. When she came back, the make-up artist had done such a good job covering it up," he added.

Angelina previously admitted her injury interrupted shooting.

She told US talk show Nightline: "I returned the next day with this big bandage on my head, they had to paint it (the bandage) out. I tried really hard to do my fight scenes and a few minutes in, they were like, 'You're really not fighting very well,' so they sent me home."

Phillip also said Angelina and partner Brad Pitt's six children visited the set often, but added: "But she never let the outside get in the way of the work. She's totally focused."

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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie settle lawsuit over breakup story

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie -- who still aren't breaking up -- on Thursday won their privacy claim against News of the World, the British tabloid that in January reported they'd visited a divorce attorney and negotiated an agreement to split.

Remember that story? The one the Ministry of Gossip called foul on from the beginning, slapping on an appropriately foul headline to match?

The News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to publish an apology, as well as pay an undisclosed sum to cover the couple's costs and damages, the BBC reports. The money will be donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the actors' charity.

The paper argued it had acted in good faith, but the court didn't buy it; the divorce attorney cited in the story said he'd never met the two.

Pitt and Jolie, who are not married, were in Los Angeles this week for the premiere of Jolie's spy thriller "Salt," and she's slated to appear at Comic-Con in San Diego.

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How Jon Voight Stays Close to Angelina Jolie and His Grandkids

Jon Voight was in proud-papa mode Monday at daughter Angelina Jolie's Salt premiere in Hollywood.

Soon, though, the Oscar-winning actor, 71, will be shipping out to Texas for the new TV show Lonestar, but he says the distance won't put a damper on the relationship he's building with his daughter and grandkids.

"It's hard for me to be away from my grandkids, yes, but I'll stay in touch with them," Voight told PEOPLE at a screening of show's pilot episode at the Paley Center in Los Angeles. "Thank god we have this technology, and you know, we use all of it."

Specifically, Voight means Skype – and he plans to use it to chat with Jolie, Brad Pitt and their kids. "We're just setting it up now," the actor says. "Anyway, I love being in touch with the family."

Watching Jolie
As for Jolie, with whom he had a famously fraught relationship, watching her in action in Salt was thrilling for Voight, who thought she elevated the action flick into something more gripping.

"Her work is terrific," he says. "And Angie, for some reason, has this emotional capacity to make every piece of this really authentic, 'cause it's really unreal stuff that they're doing. But that's the genre and she gives … another energy to it."

"She's very, very good," he says. "It's not like a novelty. She's really doing it."

One thing he admires about his daughter on screen: her versatility. "She's a really talented person with a very wide range and lots of interests," Voight says.

"It's interesting to talk to her about why she made the decision to this movie … She was nursing two babies at the time that she decided to do this role."

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