In one of the most bizarre stories out of Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston was apparently advised to get a donation of sperm from Brad Pitt after they split in 2005.

Hollywood agent Sue Mengers was the one to give the peculiar advice to the former Friends star, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has claimed.

The legendary agent passed away in October at the age of 78 with Dowd revealing the story as some kind of honor to Mengers who was known for her brash nature.

She was a legend in a town of legends and put the "super" into the term super-agent. Sue Mengers, who died Saturday at her Beverly Hills home, represented an extraordinary list of stars from the 1960s into the 1990s and was a power broker for women behind-the-scenes in Hollywood.

Cher, Farrah Fawcett, Nick Nolte, Steve McQueen, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Faye Dunaway, Joan Collins, Bob Fosse, Brian De Palma and Burt Reynolds were all her clients.

So were Barbra Streisand, who served as her maid of honor when Mengers married in 1973 (she was widowed in 1996), and Ali MacGraw, who was one of a group of close friends with the pioneering agent in her final days.

Mengers was notoriously private about her age but it is believed she was 81.