People, July 11, 2005
Happy birthday Maddox! Best dad ever Brad Pitt 'buys son dirt bike to celebrate turning 11'
By Daily Mail Reporter|
As the son of Hollywood's most famous couple, Maddox Jolie-Pitt lives a charmed life more than most his age.
So it was no surprise when Brad Pitt surprised his eldest son for his 11th birthday this week - with a dirt bike.
The Moneyball star is handing down his love of fast and furious toys after buying Maddox a Suzuki DRZ-125, according to E! News.
Father and son: Brad Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt,
pictured on the sidelines of a 2010 New Orleans Saints game, are
celebrating Maddox's birthday in a big way
And Pitt, 48, seems keen to show his eldest boys Maddox and eight-year-old Pax how to ride - and safely.
New toy: The actor has reportedly bought his son a Suzuki DRZ-125, which tops out at 50mph
A source told the website: 'He wants the boys to be able to ride them on private land.
'It'll be a fun thing for them to do, and obviously he has a real passion for bikes which he'd like to pass on.'
Out and about: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie out
with their kids (L-R) Vivienne, Shiloh, Knox, Zahara, Pax and Maddox, in
New Orleans in March, 2011
The new DR-Z series bikes retail for approximately $6,200, depending on the model. Given the actor is said to have purchased a used bike, it's likely he would have paid far less.
Pitt's love of motorbikes is well-documented.
The star has a collection of his own, including a vintage Ducati and a Russian Ural Tourist motorbike, both of which he's been seen riding around in Los Angeles.
The actor shares six children with fiancée Angelina Jolie. In addition to Maddox and Pax, the couple also have seven-year-old Zahara, six-year-old Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne, four.
Brad Pitt Buys Son Maddox a Motorbike for His 11th Birthday
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's little ones are growing up so fast!
The Moneyball star and Oscar-winning actress' oldest son Maddox turned 11 on Aug. 5 and papa Pitt made sure to get his son a grown-up gift to celebrate his coming of age..
Pitt bought a Suzuki DRZ-125 motorbike, a rep for the automobile and dirt bike company confirms to E! News. The sports vehicle was purchased at a dealership in Ruislip, Germany.
"He wants the boys to be able to ride them on private land," a source tells E! News of Pitt, who was spotted browsing bikes at HGB Motorbikes in Ruislip back in June. "It'll be a fun thing for them to do, and obviously he has a real passion for bikes which he'd like to pass on."
And yes, the birthday gift is age appropriate for 11-year-old Maddox. The DRZ-125 model is made specifically for the youth and young adult markets and only reaches a top speed on 50 miles per hour.
If you recall, Pitt and Maddox have a history in their love for off-road adventures together.
Back in 2005 when Pitt and Jolie first hooked up, Pitt and a then 4-year-old Maddox were spotted sporting around on a motorbike outside Jolie's Buckinghamshire, England estate.
Let's hope Jolie's bday gift to Maddox was some safety gear and a helmet!
—Reporting by Brandi Chang and Melanie Bromley
Archive post
- July 11, 2005
- Vol. 64
- No. 2
Brad & Angelina: Taking Flight
Still Playtime for the Couple? You Bet: Brad, Angelina and Maddox Display a New Level of Togetherness
From PEOPLE Magazine
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
had been playing it safe: staying several feet apart on red carpets,
hopping private planes, keeping out of sight when off-duty save for a
rendezvous on a remote African beach. But on June 28 they spread their
wings—and their arms, cozying up in easy affection as they made their
way with Jolie's son Maddox through Luton airport outside London. Five
days earlier the two, who have never acknowledged a romance, also showed
their born-to-be-wild side—even if on an outing with Maddox that didn't
much exceed 5 mph. Standing in a field near her house in the bucolic
village of Fulmer in Buckinghamshire, England, on June 23, Jolie
initially kept her son at her side as Pitt tooled around on a dirt bike.
But even at 4 (which he turns this month), boys will be boys. And
Maddox, says an observer, "was very excited, watching Brad ride around.
He kept looking at his mother, asking when he was going to have a ride."
When Jolie gave her consent, Pitt took over. "Brad put a safety helmet
on him, then talked quietly to him, showing where to hold the
handlebars," says the source. (In the U.K. as well as most U.S. states,
children are legally allowed to be passengers on motorcycles if they are
wearing helmets.) "Then, with the boy safely tucked in front of him, he
shouted, 'Let's go!'"
And so they did, slowly riding around a dirt path—as his mother's whatever-it-is with Pitt revved into a higher gear. On cruise control for the past several weeks, Pitt, 41, and Jolie, 30, have taken care not to appear too close, stepping back from the togetherness they inadvertently displayed when a photographer snapped shots of them playing with Maddox on Kenya's Diani Beach in April. The distance they kept at the L.A. premiere of Mr. and Mrs. Smith on June 7 was a strategy to avoid photographs of them together, but it also may have echoed their own emotional uncertainty. "People want answers about what's happening...but I need to know what's happening first," Jolie said in July's W magazine. Pitt repeated the sentiment to Diane Sawyer on ABC's Primetime Live June 7: "I don't know what the future is just yet."
A month later, they both seem closer to understanding. Their new level of public togetherness may have to be put on hold in the near future, though. A spokesman for the antipoverty One Campaign, Pitt is scheduled to participate in the July 2 Live 8 concert to raise public awareness about the plight of Africa's poor. Meanwhile Jolie, whose work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees helped spark Pitt's interest in the issue, plans to make another visit to Africa in the near future. In August she's due to start filming the CIA drama The Good Shepherd opposite Matt Damon, most likely in New York City. Pitt's next movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starts filming shortly after.
So what now? If their life were a scene from Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Pitt and Jolie would zoom off into their happy ending at 155 mph on the $19,000 MV Agusta F4 Brutale S motorbike that she bought last year. But in real life, the two, ever more sure of themselves as a couple, seem content to focus on a happy now: making Maddox laugh, for instance, by zooming around and around, kicking up dirt on a little patch of grass. As the witness recalls, "Brad kept riding back close to Angelina so she could share in the fun and see how much her son was enjoying the excitement. All three of them seemed so happy together."
Karen S. Schneider and Tom Gliatto. Bryan Alexander and Neil Michael in London, Mary Green and Ryan Pienciak in New York City, Julie Jordan in Los Angeles and Shia Kapos and Kelly Williams in Chicago
And so they did, slowly riding around a dirt path—as his mother's whatever-it-is with Pitt revved into a higher gear. On cruise control for the past several weeks, Pitt, 41, and Jolie, 30, have taken care not to appear too close, stepping back from the togetherness they inadvertently displayed when a photographer snapped shots of them playing with Maddox on Kenya's Diani Beach in April. The distance they kept at the L.A. premiere of Mr. and Mrs. Smith on June 7 was a strategy to avoid photographs of them together, but it also may have echoed their own emotional uncertainty. "People want answers about what's happening...but I need to know what's happening first," Jolie said in July's W magazine. Pitt repeated the sentiment to Diane Sawyer on ABC's Primetime Live June 7: "I don't know what the future is just yet."
A month later, they both seem closer to understanding. Their new level of public togetherness may have to be put on hold in the near future, though. A spokesman for the antipoverty One Campaign, Pitt is scheduled to participate in the July 2 Live 8 concert to raise public awareness about the plight of Africa's poor. Meanwhile Jolie, whose work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees helped spark Pitt's interest in the issue, plans to make another visit to Africa in the near future. In August she's due to start filming the CIA drama The Good Shepherd opposite Matt Damon, most likely in New York City. Pitt's next movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starts filming shortly after.
So what now? If their life were a scene from Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Pitt and Jolie would zoom off into their happy ending at 155 mph on the $19,000 MV Agusta F4 Brutale S motorbike that she bought last year. But in real life, the two, ever more sure of themselves as a couple, seem content to focus on a happy now: making Maddox laugh, for instance, by zooming around and around, kicking up dirt on a little patch of grass. As the witness recalls, "Brad kept riding back close to Angelina so she could share in the fun and see how much her son was enjoying the excitement. All three of them seemed so happy together."
Karen S. Schneider and Tom Gliatto. Bryan Alexander and Neil Michael in London, Mary Green and Ryan Pienciak in New York City, Julie Jordan in Los Angeles and Shia Kapos and Kelly Williams in Chicago
