TMZ: Brad Pitt Investigated for Child Abuse

TMZ reports the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating actor Brad Pitt for an alleged incident aboard a private jet in which he was said to have become verbally and physically abusive with his children. Pitt is reported to have been drinking on the flight last Wednesday and eventually became agitated, at some point screaming at some of his six children with actress Angelina Jolie. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services was called by someone who said they witnessed the alleged incident, either on the plane or the tarmac. The episode, according to TMZ, is part of what initiated Pitt’s separation and divorce from Jolie.