If Angelina Jolie drops $1.3 million in the forest, but Cambodian Vision in Development has nothing to do with it, did the donation really happen? 

Facing accusations that she reneged on a promise to siphon that hefty sum into Cambodia over the next five years, the benevolent actress has set up an independent foundation to administer the funds, named for the child she adopted from the Southeast Asian nation four years ago.   

The Maddox Jolie Project will take over management duties that were originally doled out to Cambodian Vision in Development and the U.S.-based conservation group WildAid, organizations that Jolie cut ties with in December.    

In response to Jolie terminating their contract, Mounh Sarath, the director of CVD, accused the Oscar winner of violating an agreement to provide his group with funds.   

"The more than $1 million she has promised has never arrived," Sarath said, adding that Jolie's actions were especially unfair because he was the one who helped the actress obtain honorary Cambodian citizenship last year.   

Stephen Bognar, director of the Maddox Jolie Project, explained that Jolie had merely changed the structure and management of the project and did not go back on her promise to fund it.   

The Cambodian government approved Jolie's plans for a forest conservation and poverty alleviation program to benefit remote areas of the country's northwest region in 2003. A survey of the native wildlife in the area has already begun. 

"A decision was made to spend the money in a new way that would be more effective for the people of Cambodia," Jolie's philanthropic adviser, Trevor Neilson, said. "No agreement was broken. There was no reneging on any commitment.   

"Angelina has been funding projects in Cambodia for the last three years and is committed to doing her part to improve the lives of the Cambodian people." 

Neilson also told the Associated Press that his camp was contemplating filing a lawsuit against Sarath, whom he says was responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars already contributed that are now missing.

"We have specific evidence [of] him having taken the money, and we are considering whether to file a lawsuit or press charges against him in Cambodia," Neilson said, adding that it was Sarath's suspicious actions that led Jolie to fire him last year.

Sarath promptly denied the allegations, saying he was ready to "fight any lawsuit to find out the truth and to see if they have any documented proof of the money stolen."

Jolie first visited the country in 2001 to film scenes for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Little did her unsuspecting fans—used to gothic tales concerning black leather wedding gear and vials of blood—know that the journey would also unleash the actress' maternal instincts and a wave of humanitarian activism that has only increased in intensity.  

The UN Goodwill Ambassador adopted her now one-year-old daughter, Zahara, from Ethiopia last year, while also pledging aid to the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic, run by the World Health Organization, in Addis Ababa.  

Meanwhile, the Maddox Jolie Project is already the second philanthropic entity Jolie has set up in as many months. She and Brad Pitt formed the Jolie/Pitt Foundation in September, immediately earmarking $2 million for Doctors Without Borders and Global Action for Children.   

The comely couple is currently in India, where Pitt took time Monday to lay bricks for Habitat for Humanity for a few hours alongside former president Jimmy Carter. 

And if the media frenzy surrounding Brangelina's presence in the country, where they're shooting the Daniel Pearl biopic A Mighty Heart, doesn't subside soon, the Jolie/Pitt Foundation's next check is going to the Local Paparazzi Rehabilitation Fund.