Angelina Jolie Saves Another Child, Baby-Blocks Heiress Casey Johnson

 

Casey Johnson, the heiress to the Johnson & Johnson health and beauty fame and close pal of Nicky Hilton, complained in an interview that she was all set to adopt a little 2 1/2 year-old girl named "Lavissa" from Cambodia, when the country closed its doors to foreign adopters. 

Why?  Because of the scandal surrounding Angelina Jolie essentially "buying" her first son Maddox from the country when rules were much more lax and corruption much more prevalent. 

Though not much has been mentioned since the initial crack-down against foreigners adopting, at the time many potential parents were heartbroken and left without recourse as adoptions-in-progress were cut off.  Many of these parents had bonded with the children they had hoped to adopt and had invested the relatively large sums of money required for processing overseas adoptions.  Those parents blame Angelina Jolie for callously swooping in getting her son, and then leaving a nasty scandal in her wake  — and them — emptyhanded.

I also blame her, but mostly for being a relentless she-witch.

Here's Casey's story as told by Page Six:

"I went to Cambodia almost two years ago [and] fell in love with this little girl, a 21/2-year-old named Lavissa." But then she got the bad news that an adoption wasn't possible because of tight new adoption laws: "I was devastated because I had bonded for three weeks with this child. I was buying her clothes in Cambodia. I was videoing her. I was doing everything."

In just about any other case I would add this to my growing list of things in which to hate Angelina Jolie for, but then I read further and it became clear that in the case of Lavissa, Angelina Jolie is a hero, a great big soulless hero. 

When Casey realized her dreams of an Asian doll baby weren't going to come true, she looked to her godmother Diandra Douglas for inspiration. Diandra is the ex-wife of actor Michael Douglas, and she adopted a child from Kazakhstan (Editors note: Isn't that Borat's native land?) 

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