crazy4AJ
08-01-04, 15:23
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...The case has renewed doubts about the legitimacy of the adoption two years ago of Tomb Raider star Jolie's son Maddox from an orphanage in the provincial Cambodian town of Battambang.
Soon after the boy was delivered by Galindo to a movie set in Africa, where Jolie was filming, Cambodian child welfare workers told The Age they believed Maddox had been sold by his poverty-stricken mother for $US100 ($A130).
...British newspapers reported last month that Jolie had hired a team of lawyers to fight any attempt by US authorities to return Maddox to Cambodia.
They quoted the actress as saying she had gone to "great lengths" to ensure the boy did not have a living birth-mother in Cambodia when she and her former husband, actor Billy Bob Thornton, adopted him two years ago.
"I would never rob a mother of her child. I can only imagine how dreadful that would feel," said Jolie, who is a "goodwill ambassador" for the United Nations refugee agency.
"Maddox is my baby, he is by my side all the time, and I think I can give him so much. I can no more imagine living without him than not breathing," she said.
See Source for Complete Story: The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437411857.html)
...The case has renewed doubts about the legitimacy of the adoption two years ago of Tomb Raider star Jolie's son Maddox from an orphanage in the provincial Cambodian town of Battambang.
Soon after the boy was delivered by Galindo to a movie set in Africa, where Jolie was filming, Cambodian child welfare workers told The Age they believed Maddox had been sold by his poverty-stricken mother for $US100 ($A130).
...British newspapers reported last month that Jolie had hired a team of lawyers to fight any attempt by US authorities to return Maddox to Cambodia.
They quoted the actress as saying she had gone to "great lengths" to ensure the boy did not have a living birth-mother in Cambodia when she and her former husband, actor Billy Bob Thornton, adopted him two years ago.
"I would never rob a mother of her child. I can only imagine how dreadful that would feel," said Jolie, who is a "goodwill ambassador" for the United Nations refugee agency.
"Maddox is my baby, he is by my side all the time, and I think I can give him so much. I can no more imagine living without him than not breathing," she said.
See Source for Complete Story: The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437411857.html)