‘Angelina’ shocks with tales of drugs, S&M

Heroin abuse, S&M parties, self-mutilation, getting someone to assassinate her, being chased by Mick Jagger, a real-life role as a marriage wrecker  and a string of affairs with several A-list Hollywood stars including Colin Farrell and Leonardo DiCaprio – is there anything Angelina Jolie hasn’t done?

Or so asks author Andrew Morton, who puts these explosive new allegations at the heart of his newest celebrity biography.

In an interview with the New Zealand television show “Close Up”, Morton said Jolie herself would have said she was a “nutjob” during her teenage years – a time when she was hellbent on self harm, and at one point, rather unbelievably “actually hired a hit-man to assassinate her”.

“Angelina: An Unauthorised Biography”, out in the United States this week, is a book the 35-year-old star allegedly didn't want published.

And it's caused such a stir in Hollywood that the main entertainment shows have apparently refused to interview Morton, who became famous for his controversial book about Princess Diana.

Morton said the story Jolie has told of her life so far isn’t true – as he discovered in an interview with one of her babysitters.

The story, as he tells it, has Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertran, banish Angelina to the fifth floor of the apartment block she was living in after her split from Jolie’s father Jon Voight over his affair with an acting student. Apparently Bertran couldn't bear to look at Jolie because of her resemblance to Voight.

“[Angelina] was cared for by a rag-tag assortment of babysitters for the next year,” Morton claimed.

All of the actress’s issues are reportedly due to the fact she was effectively abandoned, psychiatrists have said.

The book describes how Jolie felt she could never connect with herself or others. She left school at 16 and Morton calls her the quintessential outsider who transformed herself into the ultimate insider.

“Through the fact that she's adopted so many children she found herself, or found some kind of peace inside herself.”
 
Marriage wrecker

However, she did have many admirers, including Mick Jagger, who reportedly pursued her relentlessly for two years.

The pair reportedly conducted a long-running affair while Jagger was married to the model Jerry Hall. “[Angelina] was considering adopting an American-Indian child and she said to Mick, 'I'm going to call him Mick Jagger after you',” said Morton.

But the book also attempts to lay bare the truth on the most famous love triangle of our times: it alleges that Angelina ruthlessly sought to win Brad Pitt from his wife Jennifer Aniston, well before the couple split, according to a report in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper.

This is something Brad and Angelina have always vehemently denied, saying their relationship developed after Brad ended his marriage.

But Brad's isn't the only marriage Morton claims the actress intruded on.

The writer alleges that Billy Bob Thornton, her second husband, was engaged to the actress Laura Dern when he met Angelina on a film set.

Morton also alleges an affair with the actor Ethan Hawke in 2003 while he was still married to actress Uma Thurman.

Other alleged secret liaisons with Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes and Leonardo DiCaprio are also talked about in the book.

The one star that Jolie had a crush on but never reciprocated is allegedly Johnnie Depp, who she worked with for her next film, “The Tourist”.

Morton said when Depp was in Edward Scissorhands, and Jolie was a teenager going through her punk-goth phase, she became fixated with him.
 
Sex symbol

Just last week it emerged that the actress had apparently posed for kinky S&M-style photographs, which showed the star with a blindfold on, and nude except for black tape crosses on her breasts.

But Jolie’s transformation to humanitarian and devoted mother impresses Morton who describes her as a “post-modern sex symbol”.

“She can get articles in Time Magazine, and in Newsweek, about refugees and the situation in Darfur and so on, so she's taken seriously,” he told the New Zealand show.

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