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20 March
2006
Italians Leave
Angelina Jolie No Show
Officials
in the Italian town where Brad Pitt and
Angelina
Jolie
were reportedly to wed on were
disappointed the couple failed to
show.
"We are
at the end of our rope," said Giuseppe
Salvioni, a spokesman for Cernobbio and
its mayor.
"Let's
say we are packing it in", he said as they
left for the day.
Italian
newspapers had said the US stars would
marry in a ceremony at their friend
George
Clooney's
villa, in the town of Laglio on Lake
Como.
There
has been huge global press speculation as
to whether Troy
star Pitt and Tomb
Raider
actress Jolie would turn up this
weekend.
Cernobbio's
Mayor Simona Saladini said she had been
told to remain on standby for possible
official functions into the
evening.
Police
in the Lake Como area were on alert and a
private security firm had increased
security around Clooney's nearby villa,
she added.
However
Ms Saladini would not reveal who had told
her to remain on standby for possible
official duties, nor would she divulge
which private security company had
reportedly increased security around
Clooney's villa.
"I have
been mayor since 2003 and they would be
the most famous couple to be married
here," she said on Saturday
morning.
But the
only wedding she performed that day was
for an older couple at city
hall.
And in
Laglio, Mayor Giuseppe said long-term
construction projects on Clooney's estate
made any wedding there virtually
impossible.
The
nearest the crowds and media got to seeing
much of interest was when two men dressed
up as Pitt and Jolie and kissed each other
by Cernobbio's lakeside.
People
from nearby towns also turned up,
including a Clooney lookalike who showed
off a photo in his wallet of himself
posing with the famous actor.
"They
were talking about it on the news this
morning, so I came to take a look," said
Giuseppe Gregorio, who said he stood in
for Clooney for lighting tests during the
filming of Ocean's 12 in nearby Villa
Erba.
Cernobbio's
hotels and restaurants benefited from the
publicity, with Pietro Sacchi, owner of
Harry's Bar, saying: "I doubled the number
of clients this week."
The
press also gathered in Paris in front of
an apartment where Jolie has stayed in the
past, but there was no sign of her there
either.
Despite
sightings of them together, Pitt and Jolie
remain very private and did not publicly
acknowledge their relationship for
months.
They are
expecting a child, and a court ruled in
January that Jolie's adopted children
could take on Pitt's surname as "adoptive
father-to-be".
Pitt
divorced actress Jennifer Aniston last
October after four and a half years of
marriage, citing irreconcilable
differences.
He
denied Jolie, who is twice divorced, was
involved in the split, which came after
the couple starred in the film
Mr
and Mrs
Smith.
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