Jennifer Aniston’s BFF Courteney Cox poses for rare photo with Brad Pitt…. almost 20 years after her Friends costar divorced him

Brad Pitt was spotted with Courteney Cox for a rare occasion at the Rock4EB benefit in Malibu, California on Saturday.

The 60-year-old actor from Troy had his arm around the Friends actress, also 60, who looked a little anxious.

This is a surprising move, considering Cox is best friends with Jennifer Aniston, who went through a difficult divorce from Pitt nearly 20 years ago.

Until now it was unknown whether Pitt and Cox were on friendly terms, but the photo seems to confirm that.

Jennifer and Brad were married from 2000 to 2005, after dating for two years.

When he moved on with Angelina Jolie, Aniston held no back in slamming the matinee idol, who she felt was “missing a sensitivity chip.”

Cox and Pitt were close when he married Jennifer, and were often seen vacationing together in Mexico.

And Pitt even appeared as a guest on their TV show Friends; it was a 2001 episode titled The One With The Rumor.

Summary: Monica (played by Cox) invites Will (played by Pitt), an old high school friend of hers and Ross (played by David Schwimmer), to Thanksgiving dinner. Little does she know that he is not that fond of Rachel (played by Aniston).

In recent years, Pitt and Aniston have seemed at peace with each other. When they ran into each other at the SAG Awards in 2020, they even shook hands and flirted a little.

Brad’s date for the Malibu event was his girlfriend of two years, Ines de Ramon, 31.

The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood actor looked fashionable in a cream-colored shirt with khaki pants featuring a striking yellow check pattern and silver zipper details.

Their attendance at the benefit comes shortly after DailyMail.com exclusively learned that De Ramon has “banned” her friends, family and even work contacts from talking about her and Pitt’s relationship, even making them sign non-disclosure agreements to “build trust.”

“Ines has told all her friends never, ever to leak any information about her or them,” a source told DailyMail.com.

“She’s playing it safe because she loves Brad and wants him to trust her, since she hopes to marry him someday,” the source added. “She really cares about him.”

However, the beauty accompanied her Hollywood star partner as he promoted his new film Wolfs, which thrust the shy director into the spotlight: she attended both the Venice Film Festival and the film’s Los Angeles premiere, and was spotted with him in New York when he made a press round.

Pitt likes a lot of privacy.

“Ines knows Brad has a huge problem with women kissing and telling, he detests it and finds it lame. He’s always worried about women using him for his fame,” the insider noted.

“But Ines clearly doesn’t and he’s comfortable with her. She’s super careful not to say a word about him because she wants to build trust with him, she wants him to lean on her and see her as wife material.

“She’s in this for the long haul and doesn’t want to mess anything up with Brad.”

Ines is vice president of Los Angeles-based fine jewelry brand Anita Ko, a role she’s held since January 2020. And she’s modeled here and there. But she never makes a big deal out of it.

An example of this is how she doesn’t push Anito Ko.

“Ines wears Anito Ko jewelry all the time, but she never tells reporters about it, she never even talks to them about it and she doesn’t make a big deal about it,” a source said.

“She doesn’t want Brad to ever think she’s trying to push her career or her agenda at his events. She’s smart that way.”

And then the star – that doesn’t use social media, although she is on LinkedIn for her career. In April, she modeled for designer Philippe Uter’s UTER spring/summer 2024 ad campaign, but she kept it a secret.

Meanwhile, Jolie said last week that she was overwhelmed by the “beautiful feeling” she got when she put her children first in her life.

The 49-year-old Maleficent actress is a mother of six, with sons Maddox (23) and Pax (20). She also has daughters Zahara (19), Shiloh (18) and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, with her ex-husband Pitt.

She is now open about the fact that she comes second to her children.

The single mother told CR Fashion Book on the lessons she’s learned from parenthood: ‘There are too many to count or name just one. But once you become a parent, you’re never the first.

‘Your life is for someone else. It’s a beautiful feeling.’

Pitt hasn’t been photographed with his six children in more than eight years.

Her comments come as she and Brad continue to feud over the sale of her share of the French vineyard where they married in 2014.

The couple’s relationship ended when Jolie filed for divorce on September 20, 2016.

Although Brad, 60, originally sought a 50/50 arrangement for their six children, an insider reported in March that he was no longer contesting the matter.

That means Angelina, 49, will retain primary physical custody of the children and he will have visitation rights.

Pitt has spent time with the children, but has not yet been photographed with them.

She previously told WSJ. Magazine about her incredible bond with her children: ‘They are the closest people to me and my life, and they are my best friends.

‘We are seven very different people, that is our strength.’

Angelina also talked about her management of fashion brand Atelier Jolie and her role as opera singer Maria Callas in the upcoming film Maria.

She spoke about the months of training she had to sing for the film: ‘(Director) Pablo (Larraín) expected me to learn, to really sing… to understand and study opera, to immerse myself in it and do the work.

“But it was much more than that: we had to understand Maria Callas and be able to play her character.”

Angelina said the training was an “emotional” experience and a kind of “therapy” she didn’t know she needed.

She added: ‘I had no idea how much I was holding in and not letting go.

‘The challenge wasn’t so much the technique, but the emotional experience of finding my voice, being in my body and expressing myself.

“You have to give every piece of yourself… everything you have.”