Overview

• Amy Odell’s Gwyneth: The Biography, due July 29, draws on hundreds of interviews to reveal Paltrow’s private reflections on her 1994–97 engagement to Brad Pitt.
• Excerpts show that Paltrow felt “sad” upon learning of Pitt’s July 2000 marriage to Jennifer Aniston but refrained from public comment at the Toronto Film Festival.
• The book recounts Paltrow’s harsh private critiques of Pitt, including labeling him as having “terrible taste in women” and calling him “dumber than a sack of s–t.”
• Paltrow’s Manhattan upbringing shaped her belief in greater sophistication and education compared with Pitt’s Missouri roots, fueling class-based judgments.
• The biography also uncovers Paltrow’s mid-1990s doubts about Pitt’s suitability and her admission of a crush on Hugh Grant during filming of Emma.