Angelina Adoption IS Legal

Claims Angelina Jolie's adoption of an Ethiopian baby was illegal have been denied.

The agency involved in the adoption has also rejected reports that the child's relatives want her back.

Newspapers have reported this week that relatives of two-year-old Zahara, including a woman who says she is her birth mother, want the child returned to Ethiopia.

Tsegaye Berhe, the head of Wide Horizons for Children, which conducted the adoption, has told news agency Reuters: "The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the document her grandmother wrote... saying her daughter, the mother of Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up."

"The grandmother brought three witnesses to court who testified that Zahara's mother had died and that her father was unknown ... The court also investigated the social status of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt before approving the adoption."

Angelina adopted Zahara in July 2005.