Angelina Jolie brands ex-husband Brad Pitt’s legal battle over winery ‘malicious’ and ‘frivolous’
Angelina Jolie continued to slam Brad Pitt amid their ongoing divorce battle, with the spotlight turning to his Chateau Miraval winery ownership.
The 58-year-old father of six accused Jolie, 47, of selling her share of the winery with the intent to deliberately “inflict harm” by participating in the sale with a total “stranger”, thereby violating their agreement.
According to radaronline.comWho obtained the court documents, Angelina slammed Brad’s claims as “frivolous, malicious and part of a problematic pattern,” as her legal team provided an update on the legal battle this week.
The latest: An email Angelina Jolie, 47, sent to her ex-husband Brad Pitt, 58, amid their ongoing divorce battle, with the focus on his Chateau Miraval winery ownership, has resurfaced publicly. .
Pitt claimed that they both agreed not to sell their interest in the property without approving it between them, since they were both owners.
The documents add: “Pitt’s allegations that he and Ms. Jolie had a secret, unwritten, and implied contract regarding a right of consent to the sale of their property interests is directly contrary to the written record and, among other legal defects, violates the law”. the Statute of Frauds and public order.’
This comes after an email recently resurfaced in which Jolie explained the reasons for her decision to sell her share of the property.
A TikTok user with the username @magshrts1 posted the content of the email, which the Oscar-winning actress wrote in January 2021, that entertainment tonight confirmed in a court document.
The winery in the south of France, photographed in 2012, was at the center of a conflict between the ex-spouses.
The “Those Who Wish Me Dead” actress said she had written the email “so as not to get emotional” when explaining the reason behind her decision to sell her share of the winery.
“It’s the place where we brought the twins home and where we were married on 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 it is impossible to write this without crying. I will treasure my memories of what it was like a decade ago.
The Los Angeles native said the winery “is also the place that marks the beginning of the end for our family, and a business that is centered around alcohol.”
Jolie said she hoped the winery “could somehow become something that would hold us together,” but now she saw how Pitt “really wanted to [her] and you will most likely be delighted to receive this email.’
Jolie was photographed in Washington, DC last February
The Eternals star said that in the previous four years she had witnessed “a lot of inconsiderate behaviour” and felt left out of the business side of the winery as “money was spent in ways that [she] would not have approved, and the decisions made that [she] was not consulted.’
Jolie said she was “hurt by the decisions that were made that show no interest in sharing the business or fundamentally changing it into something that would be healthier for our children.”
Jolie criticized the bodega’s advertising, saying she “was shocked by the recent images that were put out to sell the alcohol.”
“I find it irresponsible and it’s not something I would want kids to see,” he said. She reminded me of painful times.
The former A-list couple was photographed in 2015 in Hollywood.
Jolie said she could no longer “be involved, publicly or privately, in an alcohol-based business, when alcoholic behavior was so deeply damaging to our family”; and that the ‘business is therefore beyond the point of anything that [she] could be part of, morally and for the good of our family.’
Jolie said she saw “two ways forward,” with the first being a “sellout” that she would support in an effort to “get away from this difficult and painful chapter of our lives.”
He continued: ‘The alternative is for you, the Perrin family or your associates to buy out my ownership interest and business outright. Either way, I think we need to move on to heal and focus on where our family comes together and where we have positive associations. And do it quickly.
Jolie referenced a 2016 incident on a private jet in which she previously said in court documents that Pitt “lunged on his own son”; she ‘he strangled one of the children and hit another in the face;’ and ‘he poured beer on him’.
Pitt and Jolie, who married in 2014 and separated in 2016, have been embroiled in the legal system amid battles over multiple issues for the past six years. Pictured in June 2014
Said Jolie: ‘I can’t begin to express how upsetting it is for me to have to get to this point. Your dream for your relationship with the business and alcohol is yours and you have made it painfully clear.
‘I wish them all the best with the business, and I sincerely hope that the children feel differently about Miraval when they are older, and visit them there. But Miraval for me died in September 2016, and everything I’ve seen in the years since has sadly confirmed that.
Pitt sued Jolie 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 while Jolie pledged 40 percent of the $28.4 million they invested in the winery, she had not worked on the project.
He said the sale also violated a “mutual understanding” in their 2019 divorce agreement in which they agreed not to sell their stake in the venue without each other’s approval.
In September, Jolie’s former company, Nouvel, sued Pitt for $250 million, saying he “devised a hitherto successful plan” to control the winery.
Jolie and Pitt are the parents of six children: Maddox, 21, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 14.
Pitt and Jolie, who married in 2014 and separated in 2016, have been embroiled in the legal system amid battles over multiple issues for the past six years.