Jolie-Pitt Split?

Hot on the heels of marriage rumors, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are rumored to be headed towards splitsville in the wake of Pitt's discovery of a hidden shrine in the actress' home dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor. Sources close to Pitt indicate that the shrine contained hundreds of photographs and news clippings featuring the septuagenarian screen icon. Taylor is considered by many to be the last great star to arise from the old Hollywood regime of the post WWII era.

"Of course, finding evidence of another of Angelina's strange obsessions alone would not have been enough to put Brad off," said the source. "It was the gallery of husbands that he couldn't get past."

Taylor has notoriously been married eight times, twice to Richard Burton. Jolie's Taylor shrine reportedly featured a row of portraits of Taylor's past husbands. Portraits of Jolie's first two husbands, Jonny Lee and Billy Bob Thorton were hung beneath these, placed in correspondence to Taylor's first two husbands (Lee beneath hotel magnate Nicky Hilton, Thorton beneath actor Michael Wilding).

A portrait of Pitt had not yet been hung beneath Taylor's third husband, producer Michael Todd, the source related.

"But she had already installed a hook on the wall where one would go. It seemed clear that she was getting ready to add her latest conquest to the gallery."

Pitt is devastated by the discovery, the source continued. "He feels like he's been collected. Angelina clearly has some sort of deep obsession with Elizabeth Taylor, and Brad feels like he was recruited simply to meet some sort of marriage quota."

The position of correspondence to Todd is not an enviable one: Todd died in a plane crash in 1958, just over a year after being married to Taylor, making the match a rarity for Taylor in that it did not end in divorce. The source close to Pitt would not speculate as to whether Pitt had fears as to how far Jolie would go to complete the correspondence between her life and Taylor's.

"Brad hasn't spoken about that aspect of it. To suggest that Angelina had designs on Pitt's death as well as his life would probably be stretching the point. Although nobody is disputing that Angelina is crazy as a box of crooked sticks."