ANGIE RIPPED OFF MY SUPERHERO ID EA!
Deaf teacher says star treated her like dirt
SNOOTY schemer Angelina Jolie stole the idea for the screen’s first deaf superhero character — soon to be seen in Marvel’s upcoming The Eternals — from her children’s sign language teacher!
That’s the shocking charge of Antoinette Abbamonte, 53, who says Angie hired her to teach sign language to two of her six kids from 2016 to 2019 — and then purloined the deaf woman’s movie concept.
The Maleficent witch picked her brain “like a lab rat” for film ideas and “treated me like a secondclass citizen,” fumes the mom of four, who’s been deaf from birth. The star, who Antoinette said was condescending, also pelted her with insulting questions like: Could she hear music? Could she dance?
“This was offensive and ignorant,” she adds. “You can’t treat deaf people like they’re worthless and look down on them.”
Now her attorney has whipped off a furious letter to Angie’s lawyers accusing her of property theft in making the flick, due to be released in November 2020. “It appears that you expressly solicited the idea of the Deaf Superhero from Antoinette and commercialized it together with Marvel Studios and Disney without compensating Antoinette,” writes attorney Michael Ahmadshahi.
He is also demanding the teacher be given credit and paid for her ideas about the hearingimpaired hero, Makkari, who is played by The Walking Dead beauty Lauren Ridloff.
Ahmadshahi also says he has emails containing his client’s suggestions that were sent to Angie, who plays Thena, an immortal with superhuman strength, speed and psychic powers in the movie.
Antoinette says she first got suspicious when the Tomb Raider star suddenly started grilling her about her personal life.
“She started asking all of these questions that she never seemed interested in before, and started acting funny,” claims the teacher. “I would tense every time [Jolie] tried to get more information from me.”
Later, the children joined in the discussions and Antoinette began feeling they “were picking part of me to aid their upcoming film with a deaf character.”
Now she charges Angie, who did not reply to a request for comment, ripped off her ideas “to paint herself like she’s helping the world” by giving deaf people their first movie superhero and taking all the credit.
Outraged Abbamonte claims she confronted Angie last year, saying, “I asked her, ‘Did you take my idea?’ She responded by saying, ‘The universe works in mysterious ways.’’’