{"id":29841,"date":"2021-07-16T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=29841"},"modified":"2021-07-16T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:58:17","slug":"angelina-jolie-adoption-maddox","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/angelina-jolie-adoption-maddox\/","title":{"rendered":"More Family Drama for Angelina Jolie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29851\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29851\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/Jolie-and-Maddox-body-image-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"445\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An international child adoption scandal has found its way into the heart and home of Angelina Jolie and her family. An in the works documentary by 21-year-old filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs will dissect the nuanced and delicate possibility that Angelina Jolie&#8217;s son Maddox, whom she adopted from Cambodia in 2002, &#8220;may have been stolen from his birth family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It all started with an adoption agent by the name of Lauryn Galindo. Jolie sought out the help of Galindo to adopt Maddox, but it turns out that Galindo&#8217;s methods and practices were the exact opposite of ethical and legal. Galindo was jailed in 2004, two year after working with Jolie, for &#8220;falsifying documents to obtain US visas for orphans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker behind this project, Elizabeth Jacobs, was herself adopted from Cambodia under the watch of Galindo. The film will mainly seek to expose cruel and family-severing practices that Cambodian families undergo at the hands of child snatchers and so-called &#8220;baby recruiters.&#8221; The title of the documentary is aptly named <em>The Stolen Children<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29852\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29852\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/Jolie-and-Maddox-body-image-2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"414\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is reported that between 1997 and 2001, over half of adoptions that took place from Cambodia to the United States were aided by Galindo and her shady practices. Jacobs, a University of Massachusetts film and marketing student, is determined to get to the bottom of Galindo&#8217;s history and adoption procedures.<\/p>\n<p>When this information about Galindo came to light, Jolie said that she went to &#8220;great lengths to ensure Maddox did not have a living birth-mother in Cambodia,&#8221; and furthermore that she would &#8220;never rob a mother of her child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 however, a Cambodian man by the name of Mounh Sarath claimed to be Maddox&#8217;s biological father in order to speed up the adoption process. This has never been fully verified or denied.<\/p>\n<p>Jolie shares guardianship of Maddox, now age 19, with ex-husband Brad Pitt. This looks like it will be a developing story as Jacobs works towards completing the film, so it will bee interesting to see how Jolie approaches the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29250,"featured_media":29853,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scandal arises over Angelina Jolie as new documentary works to unpack illegal Cambodian adoption practices<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An international child adoption scandal has found its way into the heart and home of Angelina Jolie and her family. 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