Angelina Jolie in Turin, Italy, on Nov. 24, 2024; Brad Pitt in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 1, 2024.Photo:Daniele Venturelli/Getty, Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty
Daniele Venturelli/Getty, Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty
Angelina JolieandBrad Pitthavefinalized their protracted divorce, but legal hurdles remain.
Jolie’s actions around their ongoingbattle over Château Miravalhave caused “tremendous collateral damage to those in and around the family,” says a source close to Pitt.
On Monday, Dec. 30, following the news that theformer couplereached a settlement, a source close to the actress told PEOPLE that Jolie, 49, hopes Pitt can now “move on,” citing the winery lawsuit: “Sadly, until [Pitt] drops his lawsuit, this family will not have the peace and healing they so very much desire and deserve.”
But a source close to Pitt, 61, is calling theMariastar’smove in 2021 to sellher share of the French winery they co-owned a way to “punish” her ex.
“Brad built an extraordinary, increasingly valuable business and she chose to deliberately disregard their agreement,” the latter insider tells PEOPLE.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Hollywood, California, on Nov. 5, 2015; Château Miraval.Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic, MICHEL GANGNE/AFP via Getty
Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic, MICHEL GANGNE/AFP via Getty
In February 2022, Pittallegedin a lawsuit that Jolie made the sale despite a prior agreement that neither would do so unless the other person approved.
“Instead of completing negotiations for him to buy her out and keeping Miraval fully in the family and ending the battles,” says the Pitt source, Jolie “instead chose to sell to a total stranger not aligned with the company’s vision so she could take the money for herself and punish him.”
After her $67 million sale of 50 percent of the Château Miraval estate to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division the Stoli Group, Jolie responded to Pitt’s filing witha countersuitin September 2022 in which she stated theWolfsstar was “waging a vindictive war against” her, later calling his legal actions “part of a problematic pattern." She has maintained that the couple did not have “a secret, unwritten, unspoken contract” requiring them to ask for consent before selling shares of the winery.
In November,Pitt notched a winin the winery battle when Jolie’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit were rejected and the case inched closer to trial with potential proof that there was a written agreement between the former couple about selling, which a Pitt source said “demonstrates the legitimacy of his claims.”
Château Miraval.MICHEL GANGNE/AFP via Getty
Pitt and Jolie, who share sixchildren—Maddox, 23,Pax, 21,Zahara, 19,Shiloh, 18, and twinsVivienneandKnox, 16 — separated in 2016 after 12 years together and two years of marriage.
Jolie’s legal team has said that Pitt refused to buy her out of the Miraval business because she didn’t want to signa non-disclosure agreement"designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up," according to court documents.
Pitt’s lawyers have since won a motion compelling Jolie to produce eight years' worth of non-disclosure agreements in an attempt to illustrate that Jolie herself used the kind of NDAs that she objected to sign in 2021.
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On Monday, a Jolie source told PEOPLE that she “will continue to stand up to” Pitt, and that she hopes Pitt will “stop attacking her.”
A Pitt source rejects that characterization, pointing to the Miraval proceedings.
“Sadly, the other side has consistently engaged in similar one sided attacks for the past eight years, including a never-ending distortion of facts and projecting their own behavior onto others, causing tremendous collateral damage to those in and around the family,” the Pitt source told PEOPLE on Tuesday, Dec. 31.
Jolie’s divorce attorney James Simon of Hersh Mannis said on Monday that the actress has been “focused on finding peace and healing for their family, adding, “Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
source: people.com
