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Revisiting Star Magazine’s Dogged Coverage of the Brangelina Beat

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Were you surprised by today’s news about Angelina Jolie filing for divorce from Brad Pitt? Star Magazine wasn’t. The tabloid has been loudly predicting trouble for Brangelina on its covers — gathered here — since 2008, attributing the strife to such gossip fodder as hard drug use (“Wasted! Rehab for Angie”), a fling with an ex (“Brad & Jen’s Secret Hotel Hook-Up”), and Brad being a secret bisexual (“Brad — Secret Bisexual!”). We may have all dismissed those headlines as baseless chatter, but now here were are. Beat a drum enough times and eventually you’ll have a song. A mournful, heartbreaking song, sure, but those pay the bills, too.

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