Byline: David Matthews, New York Daily News, (TNS)
Angelina Jolie’s attorney said on July 17 the actress wants ex-husband Brad Pitt to “end the fighting” by dropping his lawsuit against her regarding their winery in France.
Jolie sold her half of Château Miraval for $67 million in October 2021, prompting Pitt to file a lawsuit claiming she violated a verbal agreement they had.
Pitt had previously tried to buy Jolie’s half of the business, but she refused and said she did not want to sign an expanded nondisclosure agreement he requested as part of the deal.
The two had bought the winery in 2008.
Pitt “tried to punish and control Angelina by demanding a newly expanded NDA to cover his personal misconduct and abuse,” Jolie’s lawyer Paul Murphy told People on July 17.
“While Angelina again asks Mr. Pitt to end the fighting and finally put their family on a clear path toward healing, unless Mr. Pitt withdraws his lawsuit, Angelina has no choice but to obtain the evidence necessary to prove his allegations wrong,” Murphy said.
Earlier in the week, Jolie requested Pitt disclose third-party communications about a 2016 plane incident that led to their divorce filings. Pitt’s lawyers described the request as “wide-ranging and intrusive” and asked for the motion to be denied, according to People.
Pitt’s legal team argued Jolie wants the “sensitive” communications anyway “as part of her efforts to turn this business dispute into a relitigation of the former couple’s divorce case.”
Murphy told People that Pitt was trying to “cover up his personal misconduct.”
Pitt and Jolie share six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox.
Pitt is accused of grabbing Jolie by the head and shoulders and shaking her before pushing her into a wall during the September 2016 flight from the French winery to California. He’s also accused of getting violent with some of the children during the altercation.
Multiple law enforcement and social services agencies investigated the incident and Pitt was cleared in November of that same year.
While the couple was declared legally single in 2019, their divorce remains unfinalized.
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