Hollywood’s most protracted divorce has come to an end. On 30 December, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reached a settlement after eight years of legal stalemate. But it’s not quite curtain call; the divorce settlement is separate to the ongoing tussle over the for- mer spouses’ vineyard, Chateau Miraval, and the trial over whether Jolie had the legal right to sell her shares in Miraval is still scheduled for April this year.

Confirming news of the settlement, Jolie’s lawyer James Simon said, ‘This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.’ Pitt’s team has not yet publicly commented.

‘Angelina hates the fact it’s gone on this long and can’t wait to put it all behind her. Not least so she can move overseas and get away from LA, a city she has very little time for these days, as she’s openly admitted,’ a source close to the star tells Grazia, adding that it’s widely assumed that she will set up home in Europe or Cambodia.

News of the divorce settlement comes as Jolie is hot on the awards campaign trail. She is tipped for an Oscar nomination for her performance in biopic Maria, which hits UK cinemas on 10 January. Maria charts the final years of opera singer Maria Callas, a time when she was living alone in Paris and strug- gling with depression and addiction. In inter- views, Jolie has said she relates to Callas’s work ethic, as well as her vulnerability. She underwent several months of vocal training to prepare for the role and reportedly learned to breathe in an entirely new way.

Jolie’s two eldest children, Maddox and Pax, both worked on the film in the assistant director department. Having her sons on set was emotional for Jolie. ‘[Callas] has a lot of pain and they’ve of course seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn’t expe- rienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child,’ Jolie said in an interview with the BBC. ‘So they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they’d bring me cups of tea.’

In 1999, Jolie won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted, but the Best Actress statuette eluded her when she was nominated for 2008 film Changeling (the gong went to Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose). Maria could be Jolie’s chance to finally clinch the most coveted accolade. ‘Of course an Oscar would be the icing on the cake and she’s quietly confident about her chances,’ the insider says, although the com- petition will be stiff, with Kate Winslet (for Lee) and Tilda Swinton (for The Room Next Door) among names touted for a win.

This year, Jolie will also celebrate a land- mark birthday, turning 50 in June, a mile- stone she is not daunted by, says the source. ‘She looks at age as an achievement and isn’t hung up on the fact she’s turning 50 at all.’ She has several new projects in the works and will continue filming her next movie, Stitches, a drama set during Paris Fashion Week. It will mean more time spent in the French capital where she also filmed some of Maria.

‘Angelina has a lot of friends in the city, including Salma Hayek and her husband Francois-Henri Pinault, who split their time between Paris and London,’ the source says. ‘Paris is high on the list of places to relocate once all of her legal problems with Brad are over and done with. She is longing to start afresh at the earliest opportunity. The stress and heartache has gone on now for what seems like a lifetime.’ Perhaps 2025 will be the year Jolie is able to turn the page.