Brad Pitt Hunts Angelina Jolie’s Secret Texts In Winery War Twist

Brad Pitt is raising the stakes in his ongoing battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, now demanding she hand over private text messages that would reveal what really happened behind the sale of their shared French winery, Château Miraval.

In his latest court filing, Pitt’s legal team is pushing to acquire communications between Jolie and Stoli Group executive Alexei Oliynik, arguing that those messages are essential to determining whether Jolie breached their agreement by secretly selling her stake.

With an estimated $64 million at the middle of this dispute, the situation has taken a deeply personal and revealing turn.

On June 30, Pitt filed a motion in Los Angeles Superior Court searching for access to personal texts exchanged between his ex-wife and Oliynik, with key insight into the 2021 Miraval transaction.

In court documents obtained by PEOPLE Magazine, Pitt claimed that the actress sold her 50% stake to the Stoli Group through a shell company, Nouvel LLC, which he described as her “alter ego” used to evade their agreement, which required mutual consent for any sale.

In the newest filing, Pitt’s lawyers revealed that Oliynik has refused to supply documents or sit for a deposition, citing Swiss residency.

The Miraval sale has been at the guts of a bitter legal fight that dates back to 2021.

The “Maleficent” star’s sale triggered a lawsuit from Pitt in June 2022, as he alleged that she breached their mutual agreement that any transfer of shares required joint consent.

The “Fight Club” actor also accused Jolie of harming the popularity of their shared wine business, Château Miraval, by selling her stake to what he described as a “stranger.”

Pitt claimed the move was done with the intent to “inflict harm” on him, asserting that they’d previously agreed never to sell their respective shares without one another’s consent.

He emphasized that Miraval had change into his “passion” project, and he had invested years of labor into turning it into a worldwide success.

The Hollywood star’s legal team argued that the actress “contributed nothing to Miraval’s success.”

They claimed Jolie went behind his back to finish the deal, intentionally breaching their agreement.

In September 2022, Jolie countersued for over $250 million, accusing Pitt of launching a “vindictive war” over the vineyard.

“These counterclaims lay bare the true nature of Pitt’s egregious misconduct. To be clear, it’s Pitt, and never Jolie, Nouvel, or any of the opposite Defendants, who has acted in a hostile, destructive, and illegal manner. Pitt’s behavior has caused serious harm to Nouvel,” the court documents read.

In keeping with the filing, the 50-year-old had reportedly spent several months negotiating with Pitt’s team to sell him her share of the French winery.

Nevertheless, the talks allegedly fell apart when Pitt made what the filing describes as an “eleventh-hour demand” for “onerous and irrelevant conditions.”

Amongst them was a proposed clause that may have barred Jolie from publicly discussing the circumstances surrounding the breakdown of their marriage.

Unwilling to simply accept the “hush clause,” the filmmaker as an alternative sold her stake to Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary of the Stoli Group.

Nearly two years later, Jolie asked Pitt to finish the acrimony by dropping the lawsuit against her.

Jolie’s lawyer, Paul Murphy, said the movie star desired to “put their family on a transparent path towards healing.”

Nevertheless, sources revealed the “F1” actor had “no intentions” of dropping the suit.

Talking to the Each day Mail in a July 2024 interview, the insider revealed Jolie only made the request after realizing her legal backing wasn’t strong enough.

In keeping with them, Jolie only desired to paint herself as “the victim.”

“She is realizing that she doesn’t have a powerful case anymore, and she or he also knows that she may likely should shell out the cash by order of the courts. Bringing very personal issues right into a business lawsuit is backfiring on her,” they added.

Months later, Jolie and Pitt officially finalized their bitter divorce on December 30, 2024, concluding a legal battle that began in 2016 with the mom of six citing irreconcilable differences.

Jolie’s lawyer James Simon made the announcement via a press release to PEOPLE.

“Greater than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the kids left all the properties they’d shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that point, she has focused on finding peace and healing for his or her family. This is only one a part of a protracted ongoing process that began eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over,” he said.