Angelina Hits Red Tape

Updated:10:34, Thursday April 04, 2002

Hollywood star Billy Bob Thornton has dismissed reports that he and wife Angelina Jolie have been barred from taking their newly-adopted Cambodian son into the US.

Angelina Jolie and hubby Billy Bob

Thornton and Jolie, who played cyber babe Lara Croft in the film Tomb Raider, adopted eight-month old Maddox last November.

Stringent US immigration laws meant the couple would never be allowed to take the child to live in America, according to reports.

But Thornton said the immigration process was simply bogged down in red tape.

Plight

He said: "That is just so much nonsense. "It's like they look at us and see we have adopted a baby and see we are happy and they think, `How can we spoil that?'

"So they make up stuff about us not being able to bring him into the US.

"The truth is we are in line with about 200 or so other families all in the same position."

Jolie became involved in the plight of Cambodian orphans when she visited the country on a UN fact-finding tour.

She is currently filming in Africa.