2023-06-02 22:30:00
(CNN) — Brad Pitt is not backing down in his legal battle against his ex-wife Angelina Jolie. This time, the dispute is over a French vineyard they once owned together.
In new legal documents filed Thursday by Pitt’s lawyers and obtained by CNN, the actor calls Jolie’s 2021 sale of her stake in Château Miraval “retaliatory” following an “adverse custody ruling” (of which children).
“His decision to end negotiations with Pitt was intentional and pretexted,” the documents state. “As will be shown at trial, Jolie’s actions were unlawful, intentionally seriously harming Pitt and unfairly enriching herself.”
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2015.
CNN has contacted Jolie’s representative for comment.
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016. They were declared legally divorced in 2019, but an agreement for joint custody of their minor children has yet to be finalized.
Jolie sold her stake in Miraval in October 2021 to Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary of the Stoli Group, controlled by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler.
Pitt filed his first lawsuit over that sale in 2022, calling it “illegal” because, according to him, both had agreed when they bought Château Miraval that neither would sell without the other’s consent.
Jolie filed a countersuit, alleging that no such deal ever existed and that she sold her share of the vineyard in an effort to gain “financial independence” from Pitt and “obtain some form of peace to bring closure to this deeply painful and traumatic chapter in her life and the lives of others.” their children”.
The former couple bought the estate and vineyard in the south of France in 2008.
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