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A story from AskMen.com, the men's online magazine famous for its listicles of hot women, that we sourced earlier today, had Billy Bob Thornton aiming some nasty remarks at ex-wife Angelina Jolie, who's currently enjoying the company of new partner Brad Pitt and on-going speculation about her unborn(?) twins.

According to AskMen, Thornton, speaking at a press launch for his new record, said Angelina "is just going through a high school phase. You know, dating the quarterback of the football team with Brad Pitt over there. She’ll be waking up from that dream in no time. … Who knows if I’ll be there when she’s ready to come to her senses though."

Except now Thornton's rep insists he never said any of those things. Lending credence to that argument is the suddenly missing article on AskMen.com that originally reported it. (A 404 error now greets visitors to that page, and there's no Google cache of it.)

So either Thornton did say those things, nobody else heard them, and AskMen is simply protecting its Hollywood-friendly relationships. Or AskMen completely made up the quotes and didn't think anybody would notice. Damn The Google!

Sad, bitter old man Billy Bob Thornton cannot be happy for one-time love Angelina Jolie, who he describes as doing through a "high school phase" by going steady with dreamboat Brad Pitt, who she met by the lockers after free period. Thornton, who married Jolie in 2000 and was gone three years later, says, according to AskMen.com, "You know dating the quarterback of the football team with Brad Pitt over there. She'll be waking up from that dream in no time." Naturally, that involves returning the comfort of his soul patch and gettin' hog wild to the tunes of his new album with The Boxmasters. Oh, we didn't mention that Thornton is going on this rant while promoting a new album?

Update: It turns out the quotes from AskMen.com may have been completely made up.

Screen grabbing TMZ, Team Arianna kinda forgot they were also exposing the identity of Billy Bob Thornton's 14-year-old son. [HuffPo Media]

Harvey Levin's TMZ.com used to be a media darling, with the blogs rushing to defend its easy jokes and celebrity pitfall chronicling. But lately, the backlash has been stirring, whether its the site's picking on aging or weight-gaining stars or its borderline racist humor. And now it's run afoul of a single media practice that's actually for the good of society: protecting the identities of sex abuse victims.

In reporting on allegations of sexual abuse against Billy Bob Thornton's son, TMZ not only named the 14-year-old boy (not that it'd be terribly hard to figure out), but also runs a photo of the boy, who, courtesy a relationship with a 22-year-old woman, is the "alleged victim of 'unlawful sex.'"