Psst. Want to know the latest on the divorce heard ’round the world, the split between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt that’s been tabloid fodder since the day after she filed?

Article by Christie D’Zurilla

Surprise — it’s good news. The stars’ movie careers are likely to thrive.

Divorce is so common in Hollywood that it almost never damages a career, and most actors survive the swarm of bad publicity over even drug use and scandal, except in the most extreme cases.

“I’ve never really seen where the loss of a relationship was responsible for a dip in someone’s career,” said John Tarnoff, head of industry relations at the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College master of entertainment management program. Celebrities whose careers have suffered after breaking up, he said, “did that to themselves quite apart from the split.”