The last words in their marriage — entered into just 25 months previously — were allegedly uttered by Brad Pitt on the steps of the private jet which had brought him, Angelina Jolie and their six children from their house in France to Los Angeles in September 2016.

‘F*** you,’ he said, apparently. ‘F*** you all.’ For good ­measure, according to Ms Jolie, he called her a ‘bitch’ and ‘shook her’ by the head and shoulders.

The alleged argument on the plane, which ended their marriage, has been rehearsed by Ms Jolie in a court filing.

What starte out as an altercation apparently between him and one of the children turned — she says — into a physical fight during which he poured beer and wine over his family and injured his wife by throwing himself backwards into a row of seats while she was clinging to his back.

However, in a new legal move the actress has claimed that Pitt — twice named People ­magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ — was physically and emotionally abusive to her before that point.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie met on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith (pictured) in 2004, but an alleged argument on a plane in 2016 ended their marriage, court papers reveal