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Getty Images (2)Angelina Jolie‘s legal team wants Brad Pitt to drop its lawsuit over the French winery they co-owned – and “end the fighting and finally put their family on a clear path to healing.”
Pitt, 60, first charged Jolie, 49, in February 2022 and claimed she breached their contract by selling her stake in Chateau Miraval to a third party without his consent in October 2021. He claimed she did it in an attempt to ‘undermine’ [his] investment.”
The exes bought the winery in 2008 and married six years later on the estate in the south of France. After splitting in late 2016, Pitt and Jolie were declared legally single in 2019. Since then, they have been embroiled in messy legal disputes for years over Chateau Miraval and custody of their minor children. (The couple shares six children: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.)
In April, Jolie’s lawyers arrived submitted a motion related to the vineyard drama. They claimed that Pitt would not purchase Jolie’s shares in the wine company unless she signed a mutual non-disclosure agreement (NDA), and also claimed that Pitt’s request was intended to hide his “physical abuse” of the actress from the now infamous Airplane incident from 2016 with their children, which led to a divorce.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been embroiled in a messy lawsuit since she filed for divorce in September 2016, but the pair haven’t always been at odds. The Oscar winners are said to have fallen for each other while filming the action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith from 2005. The genesis of their relationship immediately caused […]
PittThe court’s lawyers denied the allegations and argued that Jolie’s defense is undermined by her own routine use of non-disclosure agreements. They alleged that Jolie made claims that his proposed NDA would be controlling “in an attempt to rationalize her “wrongful sale” of her Miraval stock. In May, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled granted Pitt’s motion to force Jolie to produce every NDA agreement she signed with a third party between 2014 and 2022.
Jolie was given a deadline of sixty days to produce the relevant documentation. A source said Us at the time that the ruling was a crushing legal blow to her.
On Wednesday, July 17, her attorney, Paul Murphy, released a new statement Entertainment tonight alleging that Pitt “attempted to punish and control Angelina by demanding a newly expanded non-disclosure agreement to cover his personal misconduct and abuse.”
“These actions are central to these proceedings. We are not at all surprised that Mr. Pitt is afraid to turn over the documents proving these facts,” Murphy continued. “As Angelina once again asks Mr. Pitt to end the fighting and finally put their family on a clear path to healing, Angelina has no choice but to obtain the evidence needed to prove his accusations are false unless Mr. Pitt withdraws his lawsuit.”
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt called it quits in 2016, but the incident that led to their divorce remained controversial years after their divorce. The Girl, Interrupted star filed for divorce from the Seven actor in September 2016, shortly after the couple flew from France to California with their six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, […]
A friend of Pitt familiar with the ongoing legal debacle told Us earlier this year that the ongoing lawsuits are “a pattern of behavior” between the two.
“Every time a decision is made that goes against the other side, they consistently choose to introduce misleading, inaccurate and/or irrelevant information as a distraction,” the source said. “There was a lengthy custody trial involving the entire history of their relationship, and a judge who heard all the evidence still granted him 50/50 custody.”