Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography (59 page)

Angie was a regular visitor to Franklin Meyer’s salon in the Chelsea Hotel. Here, her hair cropped short for Gia, she poses with a necklace of gold leaf and glass, which a record company executive traded for drugs.
Franklin Meyer

Angie in 1998 at the Golden Globes, where she won her first-ever award, for her performance in
George Wallace
. During the course of the evening she shared a shower with
Titanic
star Leonardo DiCaprio, but he didn’t float her boat. While she gained a trophy, she managed to lose a pair of diamond earrings that had been loaned to her.
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While Angie was “married but dating,” Jonny Lee Miller was regularly by her side. Even after they separated and divorced, the couple remained great friends. He was with her when she won the Golden Globe in January 1999 for her performance in
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Before she won her Golden Globe for
Gia
, Angie promised to jump in the hotel pool afterward. She was as good as her word, after changing out of her silver Randolph Duke gown into a body suit. She was joined by her manager, Geyer Kosinski, Jonny Lee Miller, and James Haven. Then she pulled TV producer Jeremy Louwerse into the pool, where he managed to conduct an interview while chest-deep in water.
Chuck Ozeas

After weeks of nagging, tattoo artist Friday Jones finally agreed to Angie’s request to have the name of her lover, Billy Bob Thornton, tattooed beneath her bikini line. Friday thought she would live to regret it. During the session, on October 6, 1999, an amateur photographer friend took a series of erotic Polaroids, the actress lying back languidly or indulging in mild bondage with tape as her tattoo artist worked. Angie says: “Usually all my tattoos came at a good time. A tattoo is something permanent, when you’ve made a self-discovery or something you’ve come to a conclusion about.”
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When Angie won an Oscar for
Girl, Interrupted
in March 2000, it was her swooping, open-mouthed kiss with her brother that had the Hollywood crowd gasping for breath. While talk of incest was in the air, James Haven knew that his sister was wildly in love with Billy Bob Thornton, whom she saw later that night. Nonetheless, Haven, who was trying to kick-start an acting career, was forever tainted by that moment.
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“Hey, Angie, give us a little of that Billy Bob action,” yelled photographers as the actor and his bride of four weeks smooched their way down the red carpet for the premiere of
Gone in Sixty Seconds
in June 2000. The couple gained instant notoriety not only for their revelations about their wild sex life but for wearing his-and-her blood vial necklaces.
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Angelina and her mother, who was diagnosed with cancer in 1999, in Santa Monica a couple of days after Angie's second marriage in May 2000. Within days, Angie was on her way to London, where she starred as adventuress Lara Croft. Every day, wherever she was in the world, Angie phoned her mother, who was also her manager until she became too ill to continue.
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Angie and her father at a press conference in 2001 to promote
Lara Croft
, in which Jon Voight played her father. It was a profound experience for both of them, though Angie complained later that he soon reverted back to his habit of being judgmental about her behavior. Angie displays a loving wariness toward her father, in contrast to her relaxed demeanor with her mother.
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In Angie’s eyes, Maddox, the Cambodian orphan she adopted in 2002, was the one man in her life who never let her down. His arrival changed everything, the catalyst that ended her brief marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and the missing link in her life that imbued her with an inner calm she had never felt before.
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