Angelina Jolie
She wins partial victory in lawsuit with Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are fighting over a French winery.
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Brad Pitt and his ex-wife Angelina Jolie are fighting over their winery. The actress has now won a partial victory in court.
Brad Pitt (58) and Angelina Jolie (47) have been arguing about the common winery in France for a long time. Now the actress has scored a partial victory in court, as reported, among other things, by the US website “Page Six”.. Jolie had requested certain documents from Pitt concerning him, his manager and his company, Mondo Bongo.
The actor had resisted the publication of the documents. However, on Friday (July 22) a Los Angeles judge ruled that Pitt Jolie’s team must return the documents. The actor can’t even withhold the documents until he appeals this decision.
What is the dispute about?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie bought the Château Miraval near Correns between Marseille and Nice in 2008. Jolie had sold her share of the estate in southern France to Tenute del Mondo in October 2021. The company is a subsidiary of the Stoli Group of Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler (54). In February, Pitt officially filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife. He wants to reverse the sale of their shares in the company to the Russian oligarchs and have them declared null and void, reported at the time the US portal “TMZ”. Jolie sold her share behind Pitt’s back. In his eyes, that is unacceptable.
Pitt claimed in the lawsuit that he’s invested a lot of money and time over the years, and he wants a reward for it. His wife at the time paid 40 percent of the original purchase price of 25 million euros, and he paid the rest himself. It was he who made the winery profitable. Jolie has had nothing to do with it since 2013 at the latest. According to Pitt, there was an agreement that neither of them could sell their shares without the consent of the other.
Pitt and Jolie have been a couple since 2005 and married in 2014. In 2016, Jolie filed for divorce. Since then, the ex-couple has also been fighting over custody of their children Pax (18), Zahara (17), Shiloh (16), Vivienne (14), Knox (14) and Maddox (20). The latter is no longer part of the process due to his majority.