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Angelina Jolie Not to Blame for “Boneheaded” Media Agreement
Angelina Jolie took the brunt of the blame for requiring media outlets to sign an agreement not to ask personal questions during her interviews but as it turns out it was her lawyer, Robert Offer, a self-described “boneheaded, overzealous lawyer” who is to blame.
Jolie wouldn’t hang her reps out to dry though, telling “The Daily Show” “It was from my representatives trying to be protective of me, but it was excessive and I wouldn't have put it out there. But it's all right and nobody was forced to do it.”
The timing for the media backlash couldn’t have been worse for Jolie as she was at the premier of her new film “A Mighty Heart” in which she portrays Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.
Many media outlets refused to sign the agreement that stipulated any story written from a one-on-one interview would have to be about the movie.
In reflecting on the drafting of such a mandate Offer blamed himself for the mistake, “"It was well intended, but I understand how it was received.”
