Celebrity News | Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Engaged

Celebrity News | Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Engaged. Los Angeles - Angelina Jolie, 36, and Brad Pitt, 48, a Hollywood megastar couple since 2005, are engaged, Pitt's representative said Friday. "Yes, it's confirmed. it's a promise for the longer term, and their children are terribly happy. there isn't any date set at now. Brad designed the ring," the representative, Cynthia Pett-Dante, told CNN.

The longtime couple had been insisting that they would not marry unless the nation's laws allowed all couples to marry. Asked concerning this position once the engagement announcement, Pitt's representative did not have a direct comment.

Jewelry designer Robert Procop of Beverly Hills, California, designed the diamond engagement ring once a yearlong collaboration with Pitt, his representative said.

Pitt "wanted each facet of it to be good, therefore Robert was ready to find a diamond of the best quality and cut it to a certain custom size and form to suit Angelina's hand," the representative said. "Brad was invariably heavily concerned, overseeing each facet of the artistic style evolution. The facet diamonds are specially cut to encircle her finger."

The couple has six kids, as well as 3 biological kids along. Pitt adopted 2 of Jolie's kids whom she had earlier adopted from Cambodia and Ethiopia, and that they along adopted a boy from Vietnam. Their biological kids embrace twins.

Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand, won an Oscar for her role as a mental patient within the 1999 film "Girl, Interrupted." Pitt, who grew up in Springfield, Missouri, was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for his role within the 1995 science fiction film "Twelve Monkeys."

Jolie was previously married to actor Jonny Lee Miller and actor Billy Bob Thornton. Pitt earlier had been married to actress Jennifer Aniston. The couple has used their international celebrity to draw attention to variety of humanitarian causes.

Despite ongoing reports that Jolie and Pitt began their love affair throughout the creating of 2005's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" -- whereas Pitt was still married to Aniston -- Jolie insisted to the UK's Stylist magazine in 2010 that their relationship began once the film. "We became friends on the film set," Jolie said, "but (the relationship) began once."