Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement

LOS ANGELES, United States: Famed actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie signed off on a divorce settlement on Tuesday, according to US media, marking a turning point in the eight-year legal saga.

Jolie´s attorney James Simon confirmed the settlement to People Magazine, saying in a statement that Jolie was “focused on finding peace and healing for their family.”

“This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago,” Simon said. “Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”

No details of the settlement between the former power couple were immediately available.

Jolie filed to dissolve their marriage in September 2016 and the pair has remained locked in a court battle since.

Jolie filed for divorce a few days after a flight during which she alleged in court papers that Pitt “choked” one of their children and hit another during a plane fight.

In the papers lodged in a Los Angeles court and widely quoted in US media, Jolie describes a lengthy eruption by Pitt as the couple flew with the children from California to France in September 2016.

In the ensuing years, the A-listers have clashed over custody of the children -- three biological and three adopted -- and more recently over the ownership of a luxury French property they bought together.