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Angelina Jolie’s legal team wants Brad Pitt to drop his lawsuit over the French winery they co-owned — and “end the fighting and eventually put their family on a transparent path toward healing.”
Pitt, 60, first sued Jolie, 49, in February 2022, claiming that she breached their contract by selling her Chateau Miraval stake in October 2021 to a 3rd party without his consent. He claimed she did it in an try and “undermine [his] investment.”
The exes bought the winery in 2008, marrying on the property in southern France six years later. After splitting in late 2016, Pitt and Jolie were declared legally single in 2019. They’ve since spent years wrapped up in messy legal disputes over Chateau Miraval and custody of their minor children. (The pair share six kids: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.)
In April, Jolie’s lawyers filed a motion related to the vineyard drama. They claimed that Pitt wouldn’t buy Jolie’s shares within the wine company unless she signed a mutual non-disclosure agreement (NDA), and likewise alleged that Pitt’s request was meant to hide his “physical abuse” of the actress before the now-infamous 2016 airplane incident with their kids that led to divorce.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been locked in a messy court battle ever since she filed for divorce in September 2016, however the pair weren’t at all times at odds. The Oscar winners allegedly fell for one another while filming the 2005 motion film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The origination of their relationship immediately caused […]
Pitt’s lawyers denied the allegations and argued that Jolie’s defense is undermined by her own routine use of NDAs. They alleged that Jolie made the claims about his proposed NDA being controlling “in an effort to rationalize” her “wrongful sale” of her Miraval stake. In May, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge granted Pitt’s motion to compel Jolie to supply every NDA agreement that she signed with a 3rd party between 2014 and 2022.
Jolie was given a 60-day deadline to supply the relevant documentation. A source told Us on the time that the ruling was a crushing legal blow for her.
On Wednesday, July 17, her lawyer, Paul Murphy, released a brand new statement to Entertainment Tonight alleging that Pitt “tried to punish and control Angelina by demanding a newly expanded NDA to cover his personal misconduct and abuse.”
“Those actions are central to those proceedings. We should not in any respect surprised Mr. Pitt is afraid to show over the documents demonstrating these facts,” Murphy continued. “While Angelina again asks Mr. Pitt to finish the fighting and eventually put their family on a transparent path toward healing, unless Mr. Pitt withdraws his lawsuit, Angelina has no selection but to acquire the evidence essential to prove his allegations unsuitable.”
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt called it quits in 2016, however the incident that led to their split has remained contentious years after their divorce. The Girl, Interrupted star filed for divorce from the Seven actor in September 2016, shortly after the pair flew from France to California with their six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, […]
A friend of Pitt who’s aware of the continuing legal debacle told Us earlier this 12 months that the continuing lawsuits are “a pattern of behavior” between the 2.
“At any time when there’s a choice that goes against the opposite side they consistently decide to introduce misleading, inaccurate and/or irrelevant information as a distraction,” the source shared. “There was a lengthy custody trial that involved your complete history of their relationship and a judge who heard all of the evidence still granted him 50/50 custody.”
