Marcheline Bertrand, mother of Angelina Jolie, died yesterday afternoon in LA after a seven-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. In a statement released by her rep, Jolie said she was at her mother's bedside along with her brother and Brad Pitt. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to the Women's Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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