In the neverending saga of the uncool Bermuda Triangle, it’s always a nagging question about who exactly is pulling the media’s strings. Publicist-less Angelina Jolie is often accused - even by the New York Times - of being some kind of master media manipulator, while Jennifer Aniston famously has one of the biggest, most powerful publicists in Hollywood, Stephen Huvane. And then there’s Brad. No one really talks about whether Brad is some kind of master media manipulator. I suppose we don’t give him enough credit? Or maybe he doesn’t care? Who knows?

Anyway, we have yet another denial of a recent tabloid report. The original report was this week’s Star Magazine cover story about Aniston’s limo driver “telling all” about her secret hotel rendezvous with Brad. Now, the denial - what’s weird is that it hasn’t come from either Brangelina or Jennifer. It comes from the hotel where, according to Star, the exes allegedly got busy. That’s right, people! A spokesperson for the Gramercy Park Hotel is all “Gross. Jen and Brad didn’t hook up in my hotel!” Take that Huvane. Take that Angelina.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt didn’t a have secret hotel meetup in New York City, a spokesperson for the Gramercy Park Hotel tells Usmagazine.com.

Tabloid Star magazine touts on its June 22 cover that the exes — who split in 2005 — had an “intimate 1 a.m. rendezvous.” The magazine quotes an unnamed limo driver who says Aniston “breathlessly” called Pitt to say “I’m here!” The magazine claims they spent two hours together at the hotel’s 18th floor Private Roof Club and Garden and were “really careful not to be spotted.”

The entire account? “Not true,” the spokesperson confirms to Us.

Star also brings up a supposed meeting between Aniston and Pitt on April 23 in which they drove around NYC in an SUV together.

That sighting, too, is “a complete fabrication,” Aniston’s rep confirms to Usmagazine.com.

Tabloids constantly link the exes — but even Aniston says she’s moved on, telling Oprah Winfrey last year she felt like the relationship “happened 100 years ago.”

As for reports that Pitt and Angelina Jolie are having issues, a source tells Us: “They have their fights and their moments, but generally things are good. They are happy — Brad loves being a father.”

[From US Weekly]

Ah, yes. “Brad loves being a father.” But does he love Angelina? That’s the subtext, I suppose. In more Brangelina news, OK! has joined the “best of the rest” to run a “Brangelina has issues” story. This, on the heels of what can only be considered Brangelina’s formal denial in this week’s People Magazine. OK! Has more details about Angelina’s birthday celebrations last week - and some of the info contradicts In Touch’s “Angelina Has A Birthday Hissy Fit” story. Shocking. But there is more info about the birthday cake. Angie got an ice cream cake. And no, it wasn’t erotic:

Long work days, the drama of caring for six kids and nonstop travel would be enough to strain the most stable of relationships – and it’s no different for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

“Without a doubt, there are problems,” a source tells OK!.

Ever since February, when the duo moved to New York so Angie could begin filming the spy thriller Salt, “something has been off,” says the insider. And though the couple’s rep recently dismissed breakup rumors, OK!’s source confirms that these days, the two “are often not on the same page.”

Angelina’s work schedule is in part to blame: The actress has been spending six to 12 hours a day on the Salt set. “Angie’s constantly tired, and whenever anyone suggests taking time off, she brushes them away,” says the source.

So just where does this leave the troubled twosome? For now, the entire Jolie-Pitt crew is still based on Long Island’s North Shore, where they celebrated Angie’s 34th birthday on June 4 with a custom-made Carvel ice cream cake. Soon, however, the family’s expected to relocate to L.A. where the two megastars hope a change of scenery will render their problems a thing of the past.

“They love each other,” adds the pal. “They are trying to work this out for the sake of the kids.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Meh. Is it wrong that I hope there’s some huge tabloid story breaking very soon? I just think that even the tabloids are getting bored with these endless Brangelina stories. That being said, I’m still wondering about Aniston and the limo driver. How did Star’s information get so bad?

Thanks to Cover Awards for the Star cover.