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Angelina Is On Her Way Home....according To This, with zahara mad and brad ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Screen siren Angelina Jolie and her newly adopted Ethiopian child flew out of Ethiopia with the actress' reputed paramour, heartthrob Brad Pitt, and Cambodian-born son in tow. Having collected the girl from an Addis Ababa orphanage a week after securing the necessary approval, Jolie, Pitt and her two adopted children, son Maddox and new daughter Zahara Marley, left Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport in a private jet, witnesses and officials said. "They have left tonight," said Tesfaye Behru, an official with the Wide Horizons agency which arranged the adoption, after witnesses reported the foursome had boarded a plane that took off around 9:10 pm (1810 GMT). "They were all three with the little baby," Tesfaye told AFP, declining to discuss further details of the departure or the transfer of the child from the orphanage to the 30-year-old actress. Jolie and her son Maddox, whom she adopted in 2002, along with Pitt had arrived in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday to pick up the latest addition to the actress' family and kept an extremely low profile in Addis Ababa. They declined or avoided attempts by reporters to speak with them about Jolie's adoption of the less than one-year-old girl who is believed to be an AIDS orphan but who Tesfaye said had tested negative for HIV. Shortly before their arrival, Ethiopian officials had confirmed a report in the online edition of the US celebrity magazine People which said that Jolie had adopted the baby girl. They said Jolie had completed the necessary paperwork and had been approved to adopt the infant during a visit that she and Pitt, who travelled to Ethiopia in April to visit HIV/AIDS projects, had made to Addis Ababa last week. Jolie and Pitt, who star in the current hit "Mr and Mrs Smith," have brushed aside speculation about a relationship despite being seen and repeatedly photographed together on various continents over the past two months. The Ethiopian officials who confirmed the adoption said that Jolie had adopted the girl on her own, signing the papers alone and listing her marital status as divorced. The twice-divorced Jolie was most recently married to actor Billy Bob Thornton, but has been linked with Pitt since his marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston broke up earlier this year. People magazine quoted Jolie as saying she and her son were "very happy to have a new addition to our family" and that after a trip to Ethiopia earlier this year Maddox fell "in love with Africa, so he has been asking for an African brother or sister." "Angie's over the moon," the magazine quoted a source close to the actress as saying. "It's a dream come true. She's always wanted to extend her family." "This has nothing to do with her relationship with Brad Pitt. People are going to try to say it's about their relationship. But it's not. Angelina's adopting as a single mother, and she wants that emphasized," the People report added.