Almost a year ago the story of Brangelina. Angelina Jolie (Los Angeles, 50 years old) and Brad Pitt (Shawnee, 62 years old) have reached a divorce agreement, eight years after announcing their unexpected separation and after a long judicial process. But even then the waters did not calm down. Even though it’s been almost a decade since they went their separate ways, the former marriage continues to make headlines due to the public clashes they still engage in through their lawyers in the ongoing dispute over the Château Miraval vineyards in France. The structure where they got married in 2014 with an intimate ceremony.
Every week new details are known about this judicial process which does not seem to be coming to an end. This Wednesday, November 5, the magazine People who published new data: Pitt is suing Jolie for 35 million dollars (about 30 million euros, at current exchange rates) for damages in the case of the farm they bought in 2008 when they were a couple and of which she sold her share to a Russian businessman after the separation. As stated in the aforementioned publication, on October 29 the actor’s lawyers presented as evidence the communications exchanged with the actress’ lawyers regarding the sale of his shares in 2021.
It all exploded in 2021, when Jolie accused Pitt of blocking the sale of her share of the vineyard; In February 2022, the actress sued the director for selling her share of the farm to entrepreneur Yuri Shefler without notice, despite the agreement that they should not sell the shares without each other’s knowledge. Weeks later, he filed a countersuit claiming that no such agreement had ever existed and that the settlement was a way to close a “deeply painful and traumatic chapter in his life and the lives of his children.” This is precisely the point that now keeps them at odds: knowing whether the sale took place despite the agreement that the then couple had or if this did not exist.
“The complexity of any evidence production process is the responsibility of Mr. Pitt himself, who is suing Ms. Jolie for $35 million in damages. Accordingly, he must bear the costs of producing documents that will prove such damages,” the interpreter’s lawyers wrote in 2023. Troy. The figure that now People made public.
Another email exchange, this time sent by Jolie’s lawyers, stated that her ex-husband was “seeking compensation for alleged damage to Miraval’s ongoing operations.” They also asked him to submit documents “relating to why (Pitt) needed a four-year confidentiality agreement covering his personal misconduct” and understood that these communications “are central to the crux of the case.” Her defense claimed that Pitt did not want to buy her share of the company, since she had refused to sign the confidentiality agreement “designed to force her to remain silent about the abuse and cover-up”, in reference to the incident on a private flight in 2016 that the FBI had investigated.
The next public hearing in the case is scheduled for December 17. “The response brief does not address our arguments and continues to rely on conjecture and speculation, all with the purpose of invading her private communications with her attorneys. This once again confirms that this lawsuit is the manifestation of the effort Pitt has made for years to harass and control Angelina. We look forward to the next hearing,” Jolie’s attorney says in a statement now shared with the magazine. People.
This unresolved chapter reopened last July when Brad Pitt accused Jolie’s buyer of having received inside information for the acquisition, that is, directly from his ex-wife. And to demonstrate this assumption, now the interpreter of Seven He demands private communications from the actress in court regarding this sale, which he believes is illegal. Faced with pressure from the actor, the protagonist of Maleficent took advantage of the privilege of attorney-client privilege to avoid addressing the case.
