Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie may be set to have wedding in France this weekend …

Is Hollywood’s most gorgeous super duo finally getting hitched?

Speculation is at fever pitch that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, engaged since April, are getting married in the coming days at Chateau Miraval, their ultra-private estate in the south of France.

Preparations for a party are underway, a source told British newspaper The Sun, and locals believe the planning extends beyond a reported 50th wedding anniversary bash for Pitt’s parents, Jane and Bill.

“Brad flew in to oversee preparations, but they’re all here now,” an unidentified source told The Sun. “They say it’s for Jane and Bill, but some think this could be it.”

While The Sun predicts the nuptials will take place Saturday, local French newspaper Var-Matin is betting on Aug. 18 because the mayor postponed a local fair set for that weekend.

Celebrity photo agency x17Online rushed a paparazzo to the property Friday and reported no signs of party prep at the $35 million chateau close to Brignoles, a tiny village not far from Aix-en-Provence.

The newly renovated 14th-century estate has its own chapel, a feature that’s fueled rumors the pair would wed in France after Pitt popped the question with a giant diamond ring he personally designed with jeweler Robert Procop.

Reps for the couple did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.

Pitt, 48, and Jolie, 37, met while filming “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” in 2005, when Pitt was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston.

They now travel the world on film and humanitarian projects with their brood of six kids — Maddox, 11, Pax, 8, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 4 — in tow.

Rumors of a wedding at Chateau Miraval have lit up online. (Stephane Lenhof / Splash News)

The A-listers rarely speak about their relationship, but Jolie recently told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that she was such a bad girl before she met Pitt, she’s lucky to be alive.

“I went through heavy, darker times and I survived them. … I did the worst, and for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here,” she told the news show, declining to give specifics.

“I’m still a bad girl,” she said, “I still have that side of me … It’s just in its place now … It belongs to Brad.”

Though Pitt and Jolie originally said marriage was off the table until gay couples across the country shared the same right to walk down the aisle, Pitt told The Hollywood Reporter in January that their kids badly wanted a wedding.

“It’s a promise for the future, and their kids are very happy,” Pitt’s manager said when she confirmed the engagement.

In an earlier interview with Australia’s “60 Minutes,” Pitt said the family of eight might grow yet again.

“I don’t know that we’re finished. I don’t know yet,” he said.

With a big smile, the shaggy blond actor said his kids with Jolie were the driving force behind all his decisions.

“If I’m choosing a film now, I want it to be maybe less immature than things I’ve done in the past. I’m very conscious they’re going to see it when they’re adults. I want it to mean something to them. I want them to think dad’s all right. It changes everything. Everything. And it’s so damn interesting.”

ndillon@nydailynews.com

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Stop medical errors with accountability, not shame

Like so many other mothers across the country, my heart breaks for the parents of Rory Staunton, the 12-year-old who died tragically in April after a series of apparent medical errors and misdiagnoses at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Medical errors in a different New York hospital threatened the life of my son, Henry, when he was just 3 weeks old. After hours of anguish, we were lucky: Henry survived a routine surgery even after botched care. That error almost deprived the world of my funny, compassionate, smart boy, today a strapping 6-foot tall teenager. But every year more than 200,000 people aren’t so lucky, killed by preventable medical mistakes and infections in American hospitals.

Here’s what is particularly frightening to those of us who know about hospital accidents: The needless errors that caused Rory’s death happened in one of the nation’s most outstanding hospitals. According to publicly available data on patient safety, NYU Langone isn’t flawless, but it is among the safest hospitals in the country.

I have no financial interest in NYU and don’t know anyone who works there, but I do have sympathy for the men and women, the vast majority of them outstanding professionals, who must live with the mistakes that took Rory’s life. And I am certain that we won’t prevent another tragedy like this merely by pointing fingers and making doctors and nurses feel more terrible than they already do. Mistakes happen. The key question is whether hospitals manage the inevitability of human error by creating organizational safety nets that prevent any one mistake from causing catastrophe to the patient.

The biggest issue is culture. In other industries known for safety, like highly productive manufacturing plants, all workers are empowered to speak up when they observe a potential hazard, and managers that disparage such conduct are dispatched from service.

In Rory’s case there were other errors such as medical chart errors, communication problems, a false or delayed lab or radiology report or something else. Much can go wrong in a complex environment like a hospital. Safety nets are essential.

Hospitals must also lose their defensiveness — rather than closely guarding safety data that should be available to the public for scrutiny. After a decade of advocacy by my organization and many others, we now have some information about hospital safety publicly available from the federal government and states. Much more is needed.

But it’s not just health care institutions themselves that have work to do. Critics need to move beyond the understandable urge to angrily assign blame — and work in good faith to improve care. Patients have a part to play, too. If more New Yorkers made clear to their doctors and nurses that they are choosing hospitals on the basis of their safety record, safety would quickly rise to the top of the priority list for every hospital.

New York City has some of the best restaurants, theaters and shopping in the world in part because New Yorkers are not shy. New Yorkers need to lose their shyness about getting tough on their hospitals.

Based on the data we have, I would still entrust the care of anyone in my family to NYU Langone Medical Center, because they are safer than so many other hospitals. It has earned a measure of trust and even love from the community it serves. But as Rory’s tragedy reminds us, let’s make sure it’s tough love.

Binder is president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit that recently released the Hospital Safety Score — letter grades reflecting how safe hospitals are for patients, modeled after the restaurant safety grades in New York City.

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