Angelina Jolie email sent to Brad Pitt has resurfaced … details her desire to wash hands of winery
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An email Angelina Jolie sent to ex-husband Brad Pitt during their ongoing divorce battle — focusing on ownership of their Chateau Miraval Winery — has resurfaced publicly.
A TikTok user under the handle @magshrts1 posted slides showing the contents of the email, which the Oscar-winning actress, 47, wrote in January 2021, Entertainment tonight confirmed in a court document.
The Maleficent actress said she wrote the email “so as not to get emotional” to explain her rationale behind her decision to sell her share of the winery.
The latest: An email Angelina Jolie, 47, sent ex-husband Brad Pitt, 58, amid their ongoing divorce battle — focusing on ownership of their Chateau Miraval Winery — has surfaced publicly
“It’s where we took the twins home and where we got married at a plaque in memory of my mother,” Jolie said. ‘A place that held the promise of what could be and where I thought I would grow old. Even now impossible to write this without crying. I will cherish my memories of what it was a decade ago.”
The Los Angeles native said the winery is “also the place that marks the beginning of the end of our family — and a business that revolves around alcohol.”
Jolie said she had hoped the winery “could somehow become something that held us together,” but now saw how Pitt, 58, “really wanted [her] and will most likely be happy to receive this email.’
The Eternals star said in the previous four years that she witnessed “a lot of inconsiderate behavior” and felt left out of the business side of the winery because “money was spent in ways that [she] would not have approved, and decisions made [she] was not consulted.’
The winery in southern France, pictured in 2012, was the center of a conflict between the former spouses
Jolie was photographed in Washington, DC last February
Jolie said she was “hurt by decisions made that show no interest in sharing the business or fundamentally turning it into something that would be healthier for our children.”
Jolie was critical of the winery’s advertising, saying she was “appalled at the recent images released to sell the alcohol.
“I think it’s irresponsible and not something I would want the kids to see,” she said. “It reminded me of painful times.”
Jolie said she could no longer “be involved in an alcohol-based business, publicly or privately, when alcoholic behavior was hurting our family so badly”; and that the ‘business is therefore beyond the point of all that’ [she] could be part of, morally and for the good of our family.”
Jolie said she saw “two ways forward,” the first being an “outright sale” that she would support in an effort to “get away from this hard and painful chapter in our lives.”
She continued: “The alternative is that my share of the property and business is bought out entirely by you, the Perrin family or your associates. Anyway, I believe we need to move forward to heal and focus on where our family gathers and where we have positive associations. And to do that quickly.’
Jolie referred to a 2016 incident involving a private jet in which she previously said in court documents that Pitt “lunged at his own child”; ‘choked one of the children and hit another in the face;’ and ‘poured beer’ over her.’
The former A-list couple was pictured in Hollywood in 2015
Pitt and Jolie, who married in 2014 and split in 2016, have been mired in the legal system for the past six years amid battles over multiple issues. Pictured in June 2014
Jolie said, “I can’t begin to express how distressing it is for me to have to reach this point. Your dream for your relationship with the company and the alcohol is yours and you have made it painfully clear.
“I wish you all the best with the company and sincerely hope that when the children are older they will think differently about Miraval and visit you there. But Miraval died for me in September 2016, and everything I’ve seen since then has sadly confirmed that.”
Jolie was sued by Pitt in February after she sold her share of the winery to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler and his Stoli Group subsidiary, Tenute del Mondo. Pitt said in court documents that although Jolie pledged 40 percent of the $28.4 million they invested in the winery, she hadn’t done any work on the project.
He said the sale also violated a “mutual understanding” in their 2019 divorce pact, in that they agreed not to sell their interest in the location without the other’s approval. In September, Jolie’s one-time company sued Nouvel Pitt for $250 million, saying he was “the mastermind behind a hitherto successful plan” to control the winery.
Jolie and Pitt are parents to six children: Maddox, 21, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16 and twins Vivienne and Knox, 14.
Pitt and Jolie, who married in 2014 and split in 2016, have been mired in the legal system for the past six years amid battles over multiple issues.