Washington, Jan 12 : One of Hollywood's most famous couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Wednesday met with US President Barack Obama at the White House, the Huffington Post reported.

Photographers and journalists, waiting outside for the president to take off for a trip to Chicago, spotted Pitt and Jolie in the Oval Office chatting with Obama.

The White House later confirmed that Obama met with the famous stars so that he could talk with Jolie about "her work on preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence against women", the daily said.

Jolie and Pitt are currently in Washington D.C. for the screening of Jolie's movie about Bosnian war crimes "In the Land of Blood and Honey" that will be showed at the Holocaust Museum. It is Jolie's debut as a film director (IANS)

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