Pitt, Jolie suing newspaper over split claim

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not splitting up, according to a statement from the couple's lawyer.

Reports last month claimed that Pitt and Jolie had signed a multi-million pound separation deal, agreeing to share financial assets and child custody.

However, the pair have now begun legal proceedings against the News of the World, the newspaper which first reported the story.

Keith Schilling of London attorneys Schillings told Sky News: "The News of the World has failed to meet our clients' reasonable demands for a retraction of and apology for these false and intrusive allegations which have now been widely republished by mainstream news outlets.

"We have advised them to bring proceedings which they have now done."

Pitt and Jolie, who have three adopted and three biological children, are unmarried.