- Former couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are still going head to head over the $500 million French winery they once shared
- In new documents, Jolie has accused her estranged husband of being ‘controlling’ and ‘bleeding her dry’
- The couple split in 2016
They first split in 2016.
But Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce is no closer to being resolved – as the actor is now accusing her estranged husband of “bleeding her dry”.
The Girl, Interrupted star, 48, and her Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood actor husband, 60, are currently embroiled in a legal battle which has been dubbed “the War of the Rosés” – with Jolie claiming how the “controlling” Pitt is “financially draining her” through the legal battle over the $500 million French winery they once co-owned, Chateau Miraval.
In court documents, a representative acting on behalf of Jolie has claimed, “It is extremely painful for Jolie to have to defend herself from Pitt’s lawsuit – itself another example of Pitt’s unrelenting efforts to control and financially drain her – especially because Pitt’s false allegations as to the reasons the Miraval deal cratered can only be proven by doing exactly what Jolie never wanted to do: provide to the trier of fact the reason the Miraval deal failed, which was Pitt’s demand for an NDA to cover up his history of physical and emotional abuse of Jolie and their family.”
Days later, Jolie’s lawyers called Pitt’s request for NDAs with any third parties ‘abusive’, ‘expensive,’ ‘wasteful’ and ‘unreasonable’.
According to Page Six, Jolie had argued in court documents that her ex had asked her to sign an expansive NDA in their ‘scuttled’ deal for the winery because he was trying to silence her from talking about allegations that he was abusive to she and her children including on a flight from France to Los Angeles in September 2016.
Jolie’s team has also claimed Pitt wanted her to sign an unfairly ‘onerous’ and ‘expansive’ NDA, ‘covering Pitt’s personal misconduct, whether related to Miraval or not,’ in exchange for her to sell her stake to him.
Jolie ended up selling her shares to a Stoli Group subsidiary – which Pitt has accused her and her company, Nouvel, of doing so to “seize profits she had not earned and returns on an investment she did not make.”
In February 2022, he claimed in a lawsuit and subsequent amended complaints that his investment in the business “exceeded Jolie’s by nearly $50 million” and that Jolie had reneged on exclusive buyout negotiations they had agreed on in early 2021, when she originally said she wanted out of the business.
