Jolie told Zahara's real mother was dead at the time of adoption

When Angelina Jolie adopted Zahara in 2005, she was told that the tot's biological mother was dead, when she was actually alive and well in Ethiopia. It has been discovered that not only is Zahara's mother, Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, alive and fit, but that the man who arranged the baby's adoption has been promoting a campaign of threats and intimidation against her family.

Last week when rumours surfaced that all was not as it appeared with the paperwork, the American headquarters of the international adoption agency Wide Horizons For Children initially insisted that Zahara's mother was dead. And yet in Ethiopia, the man who brought Zahara to the agency knows Mentewab is alive and has been attempting to shut her up.
Mentewab recently came into light after revealing that Zahara was conceived during rape.

When Girma Degu, the man who arranged the adoption for the agency, came to know that Mentewab would be talking to journalists, he threatened to have one of her sisters jailed, reports the Daily Mail. Mentewab said that her mother Almaz Elfneh had already been introduced to Girma by her sister- in-law and he agreed to take the baby after the Kebele gave its consent.

"Girma took the baby to Addis Ababa. He promised he would keep in touch. He said he would bring back the baby to visit after five months and he would send me a picture. He also promised to introduce me to the family that would adopt her," Almaz said.

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Angelina Jolie Strips Down and Gets a Hit

Angelina Jolie has finally gotten a hit movie. "Beowulf," the motion capture film directed by Robert Zemeckis, looks like it will have a $27 million weekend. On Friday night it took in over $9 million and handily grabbed the top dollar spot from "American Gangster. "In the film, Angelina Jolie speaks with the same accent she had in "The Mighty Heart"—call it her foreign accent. But more importantly, she's naked!

In school, "Beowulf" — which used to be about a monster named Grendel — was the book you couldn't get people to read. But add in a naked Jolie — and voila! — serious literature is now ready for the mass audience. With this success, though, Zemeckis and Jolie might be interested in remaking more texts that have been abandoned over time. Are we ready for Proust or Homer in this fashion? Yes! As long as a naked Angelina Jolie is added to the mix!

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Angelina Jolie’s Coat at Beowulf Premiere

I often get quite a handful of emails from people who want to know who Angelina Jolie is wearing, especially to special events when she’s a bit more dressed up. A lot of people seemed to love her beautiful beige coat at the Beowulf premiere and wanted to know who designed it.

The coat is by Escada, and is part of the Escada Group collection. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it online (the company’s official site seems to be more for investor relations) but I’m sure it’s not cheap, not if it looks that nice and that well-made! I also frequently get asked about the watch she wears. I don’t currently have any information, so if anyone knows, I’d love if you could share!

I hope Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be finishing up in Los Angeles soon. I miss the casual photos of the two of them and the kids, and unfortunately the paparazzi, bad as they may be elsewhere, are relentless in L.A., hence the reason we haven’t seen much of them unless absolutely necessary. I’d love to see them go back to New Orleans for a little while, where they did get photographed (ahh, the memories of those gorgeous boots Angie wore when she and Brad took Shiloh and Zahara for a walk in that double stroller earlier this year), but it was a little less insane - then we’d get the best of both worlds by having a bit of peace for them all combined with just enough photos of the Jolie-Pitt family to please the fans.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Namibia

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie decided to have their baby in Namibia. I saluted this as a wise choice and I'm sure the many small hotel owners around Swakopmund and Walvis Bay agreed with me. Their daughter was born on 27 May, 2006 at a small hospital near Swakopmund.

If you want to avoid hordes of paparazzi then Namibia is a smart option. There are only a few flights a week from Europe (London and Frankfurt) and they fill up months in advance. You can also fly to South Africa and make your way to Namibia from there. There are plenty of flights from South Africa to Windhoek and there's also an excellent bus service from Cape Town for those on a budget.

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Beowulf and Angelina Jolie Give 3-D a Second Chance in Hollywood

Beowulf used to be a Hollywood punch line, the cry agents uttered when confronted by arty screenwriters with an idea: "Oh God, just tell me it's not Beowulf!" So it was a particular triumph when two such scribes, indie filmmaker Roger Avary and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, took the stage at Comic-Con last summer to introduce Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis' retelling of the primordial Anglo-Saxon monster epic — in 3-D. "It's the oldest story in the English language," Gaiman declared. "Told," Avary interjected, "with the most modern technology available."

Wearing special glasses that looked like Ray-Ban Wayfarers, the crowd of comic geeks sat rapt through scenes of menace and mayhem that rivaled anything in The Lord of the Rings. But the spine-tingling moments weren't when Ray Winstone, playing Beowulf, thrusts his sword at the audience — a 3-D cliché from the '50s. They came when he faces a digitally enhanced Angelina Jolie playing the mother of the monstrous Grendel, in a dank, forbidding cave. Jolie makes for a stunningly seductive sorceress, so it's all the more terrifying when her features momentarily morph into a death mask. A 3-D sword can make you jerk back in your seat, no question. But 3-D is even better when it draws you in — into the endless shadows of a cave, or into the vortex of a shrieking face.

news source: http://www.wired.com/

Angelina Jolie Makes Humanitarian Causes Sexy

Angelina Jolie is collecting gasps with her latest filmic incarnation -- the bewitching, nude mother of the monster Grendel -- in the soon to be unleashed "Beowulf," but the actress was very much in her down-to-earth humanitarian mode at a special screening and reception for her "A Mighty Heart" film at Paramount Studios Sunday night.

She was wearing a sweater and narrow black pants with high heels, and she appeared calm and centered amid a crush of people. She also looked healthy and glowing, contrary to myriad reports that have her sickly and too thin.

Chatting about "A Mighty Heart," which traces how a multinational team came together to try to save kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl from terrorists, she charmed the crowd, which was full of actors. She told our correspondent Phyllis La Voie that she wants to stress that Pearl's widow, Mariane Pearl, whom Angelina plays in the feature, continues to work hard covering the condition of women, particularly mothers, throughout the world.

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