Tomb Raider star adopts Cambodian child

Jolie: working on second film with a Cambodian backdrop

LOS ANGELES, California -- Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton have adopted a baby boy from Cambodia, her father, Jon Voight, said at an Academy Award luncheon in Los Angeles.

The adoption announcement comes hot on the heels of a U.S. government decree suspending the issuing of visas for adopted Cambodian children.

"Angelina adopted a Cambodian baby," Voight told reporters creating a stir in the room, Reuters news agency reported. "I'm a grandfather today."

He said 26-year-old Jolie, star of the Cambodia-based action movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, received custody of the baby on Sunday in Africa, where she is on location with her latest film project.

He said Thornton, 46, was in the United States.

There was no information provided as to whether the State Department's visa restrictions had impacted the star couple.

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Fearing children could be sold to an organized network trafficking in Cambodian children, the State Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service in February issued a statement declaring the suspension on adoptions in Cambodia remained in effect.

"Cambodian authorities have acknowledged that the U.S. Government's concerns were justified. The Foreign Minister of Cambodia declared orally to the U.S. Ambassador in Cambodia that the Cambodian Government had also suspended action on adoptions involving American families," the statement read.

Some adoption cases already in process were, however, being investigated individually by a "senior-level" U.S. task force working with Cambodian government authorities.

Jolie and Thornton, who met while making the 1999 air traffic control comedy "Pushing Tin," were married in Las Vegas in May 2000.

Jolie, the U.S. star of 'Tomb Raider' and 'The Bone Collector', is in Africa for the filming of 'Beyond Borders', a love story about two aid workers working in Cambodia, Chechnya and Ethiopia.