Brad Pitt was reportedly hitting the Malibu strip on his motorcycle when the ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ actor spotted a woman being beaten by her husband. Brad chased the wifebeater away and called a relative to pick up the terrified woman from a local gas station; he even waited with her in case the guy showed up again.

According to The National Enquirer’s Mike Walker:

The star had just pulled into a Malibu gas station for a… er, pitt stop when he heard screams and spotted a guy smacking a woman around inside a parked car. Leaping off his bike, Brad yelled: “HEY MAN… what do you think you’re doing?” Ignoring him, El Creep-o rained blows on the sobbing woman – until Brad reached through a window and grabbed his arm! In a fury, the guy roared: “EFF YOU!… She’s my wife, so I can do whatever I want!” Customers who’d come running cheered as Brad yelled: “Hey… you can’t slap a woman!” As he and the bully faced off, the woman suddenly shoved her way out of the car… Wife-Beater peeled rubber and split! The woman, crying hysterically, refused to call cops. She had an ugly bruise on one cheekbone, so gallant Brad ran into the station and brought ice – then stayed with her until a relative she’d phoned picked her up.