Brad Pitt is accused of acting like a ‘petulant child’ over vineyard he co-owned with Angelina Jolie

Brad Pitt has been accused of acting like a “prickly child” who “plundered” a French vineyard he was guilty of along with Angelia Jolie in the former couple’s latest legal blowout.

Château Miraval is a vineyard in Provence, southern France, which Pitt bought in 2008 with his then-wife Jolie for €25 million. They became 50/50 owners of the property, as well as the winery.

But Pitt has now been accused of spending millions of dollars building a recording studio and renovating swimming pools – and Nouvel is now demanding $350 million from Pitt and his partners.

According to the lawsuit seen by the financial times, Pitt acted like a “pungent child” and engaged in “blatant money-making.”

Jolie’s lawyers criticized the actor for presenting himself as a winemaker, instead saying he “dealts in illusions, not dirt and grapes.”

Nouvel, Jolie’s former company, said in a legal document that Pitt “engaged in increasingly outrageous actions to maintain control of Miraval,” and that he is reportedly “stripping [the rosé producer] of his power’.

The rosé brand that Pitt and Jolie founded with the help of winemaker Marc Perrin will generate more than $15 million in profits by 2022, according to the FT.

Since the couple divorced in 2016, Pitt is said to have “devised a hitherto successful plan to take de facto control of Château Miraval,” Nouvel’s lawyers alleged in the California lawsuit.

And in the new filings, Angelina Jolie has focused on Pitt’s styling of herself as a winemaker. The document Page Six viewed reads: “Pitt is an actor, not a winemaker.

“He deals in illusions, not dirt and grapes.

Over the years he reportedly “built” the company, he filmed and appeared in dozens of movies, not to mention making countless promotional appearances, jetting-setting [sic] around the world for movie premieres and attending Hollywood parties.

“While he has undoubtedly visited the vineyards to admire the work of the French workers who have actually made the company a success, Pitt is not a vintner.”

This is only the last in them apparently endless legal battle emerging from their acrimonious split in 2016.

Details were revealed in Vanity Fair last month after the couple’s former head of security, winemakers, real estate agents and others with intimate knowledge of the couple’s time in the south of France spoke out.

The report notes that Jolie, 48, and Pitt, 59, appeared to have reached an agreement in 2021 in which he would buy her half of the company.

The deal stalled when Pitt attempted to insert a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent the Maleficent star from publicly speaking about their infamous feud in front of their children on a private jet in 2016, according to the Vanity Fair piece.

Pitt representatives have maintained that it was in fact Jolie who first brought up the idea of ​​an NDA, as the 12 Monkeys star began negotiating the terms of the agreement, when Jolie pulled out of the deal.

Not long after, Jolie sold her share to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, who has been labeled an “oligarch” by the US Treasury Department.

Pitt and Jolie met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005, playing a bored married couple who discover they are both hitmen hired by competing agencies to kill each other.

They married at Chateau Miraval in 2014 and had six children — three biological and three adopted — who are now between the ages of 14 and 21. The Vanity Fair piece notes that cracks in the marriage began to appear in 2015.

Those tensions reached a boiling point when the family returned to the US from Chateau Miraval in 2016.

On September 14, 2016, tensions between and had been boiling for about a year. They tried to keep their fights private and had made a point of never fighting in front of the children. Until the plane,” Seal wrote.

The couple’s head of security, Gary Bradbury, told the magazine he had never seen him drunk in the 15 years he worked in Pitt. On the day of the flight from Nice, France, to Los Angeles, which included a fuel stop in Minnesota, Pitt was “drinking a lot.”

Brad was drinking and the confrontation got out of hand. He was absolutely wrong in how he behaved, but immediately apologized and acknowledged that he had crossed a line,” another source said.

‘He will always regret it [it], and immediately took steps to address this and make amends,” the source added. After the incident, Pitt sobered up.

Jolie filed for divorce shortly after that incident and a long legal battle ensued, mainly over custody of their six children.

The couple was also at odds over the fate of their Chateau Miraval property.

When it looked like there was an agreement, Jolie backed out when she learned about the NDA.

Pitt claimed, through lawyers, that the real reason Jolie walked away from the deal was because she was upset about the separate custody arrangement that had given him more access.

Jolie’s lawyers also tried to correct an unfair portrayal of her role in the wine brand’s success during their ownership, claiming she invested $60 million in the company. A source related to Pitt said her investment was more than $38 million.

It was previously reported that Pitt had learned from a press release that the estranged woman had sold half of their property and business to a “Russian oligarch.”

The pair had a “mutual and binding commitment” to the $160 million Chateau Miraval venture, agreeing not to sell without the other’s consent. According to Vanity Fair, Jolie says “there’s never been such an agreement.”

Pitt discovered his ex-wife had “secretly” sold her 50 percent stake when a 2021 press release announced he had new business partners, the actor’s lawyers said.

The buyer was part of a “Russia-affiliated” vodka conglomerate headed by Shefler, who would use his new relationship with the A-lister to bolster and improve his reputation, court documents said.

“For Jolie, the sale was a business transaction to which she had every right. “In an effort to maintain her own mental health and well-being, she sought and found what she thought would be a good business partner for Pitt,” a source told Vanity Fair.

While Pitt saw the sale as a “betrayal”.

“It is no coincidence that she sold her stake in Miraval to a hostile party and part of the family home to a stranger just after a judge awarded a huge 50-50 custody win,” a source close to Pitt told vanity. Honestly.

The Fight Club star tried to challenge the sale of Jolie to Shefler.