Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, one of the world’s best known couples, are engaged to marry, ending a fevered, seven-year celebrity media dance over whether they will ever say “I do.” A spokeswoman for Pitt on Friday confirmed the pair had agreed to wed after Jolie was photographed in Los Angeles wearing a large diamond ring, designed by Pitt, on her engagement finger. “Yes, it’s confirmed. It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy. There’s no date set at this time,” said Pitt’s spokeswoman. Pitt, 48 and Jolie, 36 – dubbed Brangelina by celebrity media – are raising six children together, including three adopted kids, all under the age of 11. Rumors of an impending marriage have made the front pages of celebrity magazines for years, and sent the world’s media scurrying to venues as far afield as Italy, India, southern Africa and France to stake out imminent “secret” ceremonies. The ‘Moneyball’ star said earlier this year that pressure from their kids finally was forcing them to consider tying the knot after previously dismissing marriage as unnecessary or saying they were waiting until gays and lesbians could legally wed. Jewellery maker Robert Procop said on Friday he had fashioned Jolie’s engagement ring in collaboration with Pitt and had been working on it for a year. Procop said the ring featured a elongated tablet-shaped diamond that was cut to suit Jolie’s long, slender fingers, and is mounted with a galaxy of smaller stones. Pitt divorced his popular ‘Friends’ actress wife Jennifer Aniston in 2005 to be with Jolie, after the pair became close on the set of action spy movie ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’. Jolie, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her work on ‘Girl, Interrupted’ in 1999, had two previous short-lived marriages to actors Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.
Seven years, six kids later, Brad and Angelina agree to wed
