Angelina Jolie continues her legal battle with ex-husband Brad Pitt five years after filing for divorce.
In 2008, the former couple purchased a controlling interest in Chateau Miraval, a French company comprising of a home and vineyard in the south of France. Six years later, in 2014, Jolie and Pitt got married there. The couple, along with their six children, also vacationed there throughout their 12-year relationship.
Pitt accused Jolie, who filed for divorce in 2016 citing irreconcilable differences, of selling the shares to a Russian oligarch without Pitt’s knowledge. A source close to Jolie denies any ill intent in the sale, calling Pitt’s lawsuit a “false narrative,” per a report from People.
Pitt filed a claim alleging that Jolie “sought to inflict harm” by selling the shares in Chateau Miraval. The actor claims the couple agreed to never sell their shares in the vineyard without telling the other first, and wants the case to go to trial. “Jolie pursued and then consummated the purported sale in secret, purposely keeping Pitt in the dark, and knowingly violating Pitt’s contractual rights,” Pitt’s team wrote in the filing obtained by People.
“Mr. Pitt’s lawsuit against Ms. Jolie is an extension of a false narrative, and the truth of the situation has still not been made public,” an anonymous source told People. “After the events that led to Ms. Jolie filing for divorce and her years devoted to caring for their children, Ms. Jolie and the children have not been able to return to the property, and she made the difficult decision to sell her stake in the business. After making multiple offers to her ex-husband, and knowing the business will be inherited by their children, she found a business partner with experience in the alcohol industry…It’s unfortunate that after she properly and legally exited the business, Mr. Pitt is entangling her in multiple lawsuits,” the source said.
