In an exclusive statement, Jolie shuts down rumors that she's adding a young Haitian girl to her family. Howard Kurtz on the tabloids that fed the bogus claims and distract from her cause.The news ricocheted around the world, as does just about any story, tidbit, whisper or rumor involving Angelina Jolie.
“There’s another one on the way—and it’s a girl!” London’s Daily Mirror declared earlier this week. The actress “has sourced the next addition to her ever-expanding rainbow brood from an orphanage in Haiti,” the tabloid said, and “it was love at first sight” when Jolie visited the earthquake-ravaged country in February.
The specifics—that Jolie and boyfriend Brad Pitt would adopt the 4 year old, named Leah, who lost her family in the disaster, started appearing on other newspaper websites. “Angelina Jolie to adopt from Haiti,” blared a headline in the Times of Johannesburg. “Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt to adopt Haitian child named Leah,” said the U.S. site Examiner.com.
But the stories are flat wrong.
Jolie made that clear in an exclusive statement to The Daily Beast.
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