Angelina Jolie: Impostor Duped ET with Baby Talk

Angelina Jolie's lawyers reportedly have identified and are about to give a beat-down to some sad sack who has been posing as her personal assistant, and even used a dummy e-mail account to dupe Entertainment Tonight into errantly reporting that Angie and Brad's twins were born last Sunday. "This is a fake. A scam on the media and the public," reads a letter from Jolie's lawyers to media outlets, warning them of the chicanery.(I will now ignore the email I just got from JoliesAssistant@yahoo.com saying she'll be guest-starring on Ugly Betty.)Sources tell the AP that ET was warned by Jolie's camp that it was about to run with a story based on a phony source, though the infotainment show on Wednesday claimed it did not get wind of the scam until after. "Entertainment Tonight takes this very seriously and is, of course, concerned that the show may have been victimized by someone allegedly posing as a member of Ms. Jolie's team," says a statement from the program. "We are actively inves...

TV GuideNews June 4, 2008 at 9:53 a.m. PT