Angelina Jolie will just have to make do with the judge she has after her bid to have a new one appointed to her four-year-long divorce case was denied on Monday.

In August, the actor asked to have John W. Ouderkirk, the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt, removed, claiming that Ouderkirk had “failed to disclose the cases that demonstrated the current, ongoing, repeat-customer relationship between the judge and [Pitt’s] counsel.” Aside from overseeing the actors’ case, Ouderkirk also happens to be the same judge who officiated the former couple’s wedding in 2014. But according to new court documents filed on Monday and obtained by the Daily Mail, the Superior Court of California in Orange County has ruled that Ouderkirk will remain on the case.

According to the new ruling, the judge made all the appropriate disclosures about his prior involvement with the law firm representing Pitt when he was initially assigned to their case. It also states that Jolie’s bid to have the judge removed is “untimely” as she has been aware of his appointment and former business dealings since August 2018. This ruling echoes claims previously made by Pitt, who in court documents called Jolie’s attempt to have the judge removed a “Hail Mary,”  as the matter had been “fully disclosed to Jolie” and she “has never objected to [Ouderkirk’s] continued involvement in this proceeding until now.”

However, a source close to Jolie told Vanity Fair at the time, “Angelina’s team was kept in the dark about matters that should have been disclosed. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is only to distract from behavior that violates the rules of ethics for judges.” And her attorney Samantha Bley DeJean added in a statement, after the initial filing to have the judge removed, “All my client is asking for is a fair trial based on facts, with no special favors extended to either side. The only way litigants can trust the process is for everyone involved to ensure that there is transparency and impartiality.”

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