Jolie, Pitt expecting

Los Angeles – Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, finally affirming the long-presumed relationship.

Pitt’s publicist, Cindy Guagenti, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Jolie is pregnant and that Pitt is the father, confirming People magazine’s earlier report.

“Yes, I’m pregnant,” the magazine quoted Jolie as telling a charity aid worker Monday in the Dominican Republic, where she is filming “The Good Shepherd” with Matt Damon.

The news comes one month after papers were filed to make Pitt the adoptive father of Jolie’s two children. Jolie sought to change the names of the children to Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt.

Previously, Jolie, 30, and Pitt, 42, had not publicly acknowledged their relationship despite increasingly frequent sightings of the couple.

Second time down the aisle

Mount Clemens, Mich. – Eminem and his ex-wife are going to get married again.

Kim Mathers has applied for a license to marry Marshall Bruce Mathers III, aka Eminem, a Michigan county clerk’s office said Wednesday. The license was to be ready today.

The couple have 33 days from the application date to remarry in Michigan, but information on the wedding has been scant since the rap superstar announced in December that the two would get back together.

Eminem and the woman known to hip-hop fans merely as “Kim” reconciled in late 2004.

They had married in 1999 and divorced in 2001 amid an ugly legal fight that included a custody battle over their young daughter.

White out in Japan

New York – Due to “an acute vocal cord problem” afflicting singer-guitarist Jack White, the White Stripes have postponed scheduled tour dates in Japan.

The White Stripes were to play four concerts beginning today in Tokyo and ending Monday in Nagoya, Japan.

The White Stripes will resume their tour Jan. 20 at the Big Day Out Festival in Auckland, New Zealand. They continue with five concerts in Australia, also with the festival.

White fronts the garage rock duo from Detroit with Meg White. The Stripes are currently nominated for a Grammy for best performance by a duo or group with vocals for their single “My Doorbell.”