Angelina Jolie has reportedly begun legal action against the Daily Mail for publishing a video it claims showed her while she was addicted to heroin in the 1990s.
The newspaper suggested the footage, taken from the National Enquirer, featured a conversation between Jolie and her father Jon Voight about her brother James and late mother Marcheline Bertrand .
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Angelina Jolie has launched legal action against the Daily Mail, according to The Times
Former drug dealer Franklin Meyer claims he supplied cocaine and heroin three times a week to the actress and allegedly recorded the footage.
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How the article appeared online as of Friday, including a screenshot from the video (left)
Clooney blasted the publication for the story, writing a blistering op-ed in USA Today, in which he accused the Daily Mail of behaviour that “should be criminal”.
Clooney has refused to accept the apology , taking to USA Today once more to say: “There is one constant when a person or company is caught doing something wrong. The coverup is always worse.”
Jolie, who is now a UN Ambassador, has been frank about her experiences with drugs , telling The Mirror in 1996: “I have done just about every drug possible: cocaine, ecstasy, LSD and my favourite, heroin.”
Sources in the industry say that while the video has never been made public before, the images are nothing new.
One insider told the New York Daily News: “This Angelina story is ancient history.
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George Clooney launched a blistering attack on the Daily Mail earlier this week
“Pictures like this have been floating around for years. The Enquirer has run pictures like this before.
“They’re just revisiting old news that they think people have forgotten about and slapping a big ‘exclusive’ on it.
“The video was probably floating around back then, too. Thing is, nobody cared about the video back then.”
As of Friday, the video appeared to have been removed from the MailOnline.
Angelina Jolie Through The Years
Angelina Jolie with first husband Jonny Lee Miller (01 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her mother Marcheline Bertrand (02 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her brother James Haven (03 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with second husband Billy Bob Thornton (04 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob carried vials of each other's blood (05 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton (06 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her father Jon Voight (07 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her Oscar for 'Girl Interrupted' in 2000 (08 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie, vamping it up, around the time of 'Lara Croft' (09 of38)
Open Image Modal Noone can pull a red carpet pout like Angelina Jolie (10 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her first child, Maddox (11 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her adopted daughter, Zahara (12 of38)
Open Image Modal Some time in 2005, 'Mr and Mrs Smith' became Brangelina (13 of38)
Open Image Modal Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - arguably the highest-profile couple in the world (14 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt following his divorce from Jennifer Aniston (15 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt - a world super brand called 'Brangelina' (16 of38)
Open Image Modal ... with the power to draw attention to developing world concerns (17 of38)
Open Image Modal Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (18 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with her adopted daughter Zahara (19 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt at the premiere of 'A Mighty Heart' (20 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt (21 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt (22 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie pregnant in Cannes 2008 (23 of38)
Open Image Modal And it's twins! Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at Cannes in 2008 (24 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt now have a brood of six (25 of38)
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Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt travel constantly with their family (27 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie continues to travel as an ambassador for the UNHCR (28 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie in the Oval Office in Washington (29 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with William Hague in London (30 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie can still stop the world's press on the red carpet (31 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt share a charitable Foundation (32 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with an award for her charity work (33 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie has longtime advocated women's rights (34 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie has been noticeably slimmer in recent years (35 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie concentrates more on humanitarian work than film now (36 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt at the premiere of 'World War Z' (37 of38)
Open Image Modal Angelina Jolie made public news of her double mastectomy last month (38 of38)
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