Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are locked in a legal battle over the French winery Chateau Miraval, which they once co-owned.
Recently, Jolie’s lawyers filed documents in court alleging that Pitt attempted to get her to sign a revised non-disclosure agreement (NDA) “specifically designed to force her to remain silent about his abuse and cover-up.”
A source close to Brad Pitt told People“This was a simple business dispute, but sadly this legal attack is just the latest example of making this personal and causing harm to the entire family.” Pitt’s legal team has previously described Jolie’s motion as “overbroad and intrusive.”
The source further claimed, “The other side is desperately and repeatedly trying to deflect attention from the fact that it was she — not Brad — who requested the NDA regarding the divorce, a fact that completely undermines the validity of their never-ending attacks.”
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“They don’t want anybody to pay attention to the fact that he deprived the children of the inheritance of Miraval by violating the agreement and selling it and taking the money.”
Jolie claims Pitt used NDA to keep her quiet about abuse
The dispute over Chateau Miraval dates back to 2022 when Pitt sued Jolie for selling her stake in the winery to a third party, Tenute del Mondo.
The legal battle took another turn on July 15 when Pitt’s lawyers requested that Jolie’s motion to compel their personal communications be denied. They argued that Jolie’s demands included sensitive information, such as therapy sessions Pitt underwent after the family plane crash in 2016 that led to their divorce. That was despite Pitt’s offer to produce “substantial documentation to show every incident that occurred on the flight.”
Pitt alleges that Jolie’s sale violated a prior agreement that stated neither party could sell its stake without the other’s approval.
The legal battle has been joined by their separate struggles over custody of their six children, four of whom are now adults: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne.
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A source close to Jolie has accused Pitt of using NDAs to hide his alleged abuse. “It’s unfair for Brad Pitt to insist on NDAs to hide his criminal conduct, and no abuse survivor should be coerced and forced into silence. She never made the allegations, she gave him all of her assets, and he’s the one who tried to sell her the business in the first place. Yet he was not satisfied and still sued her and continues to attack her in the press to this day. She just wants peace and the ability to heal her family,” the source explained. People,