(August 31, 2002 - Source: Bauer Griffin)

August 05, 2002
Marriage, Interrupted
Looking back now, Sherry Hollingsworth says she did notice something unusual in Billy Bob Thornton's behavior when the two longtime friends had dinner in Little Rock in May. "Billy's always the happy-go-lucky type," says Hollingsworth, 47, an elementary school principal. "That little spark wasn't there. I kept thinking he's tired or doesn't feel well."Still, Thornton, 47, put on a good show, trotting out photos of wife Angelina Jolie and their infant son Maddox, whose adoption they had announced just two months earlier. One showed the happy trio lounging on a bed. It was, says Hollingsworth, "just, you know, a simple family moment."
Things have just gotten a lot more complicated. On July 17, just two months past their second wedding anniversary, Jolie, 27, filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. "My daughter is very sad," says her mother, former actress Marcheline Bertrand, 52. "It's a really tough time for her." Thornton sounded a similar note in his brief public statement: "It is a sad thing." For Jolie, this is a second divorce, for Thornton his fifth; three of his prior marriages, like this one, lasted just two years.


