The continuing authorized battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt continues to warmth up. Jolie accuses Pitt of forcing her to signal an $8.5 million non-disclosure settlement (NDA) to “silence” her allegations of abuse.
In court docket paperwork filed July 25 and obtained by Fox Information Digital, Jolie’s attorneys argued the “Maleficent” star and their kids have been “victims of Pitt’s purportedly ‘private’ abuse and cover-up.”
Jolie just lately demanded Pitt hand over third-party communications regarding a 2016 airplane incident. Jolie and Pitt allegedly had a bodily altercation on the airplane, and the actress filed for divorce shortly after.
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Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016. (Getty Photos)
In 2022, Pitt sued Jolie after the “Tomb Raider” star bought her stake in Château Miraval, the previous couple’s French vineyard, and requested a decide declare the sale “null and void.”
Within the court docket paperwork, Jolie’s authorized group argued she “was not acting with malice and the intent to hurt Pitt in response to any custody ruling” when she bought her share of Miraval in 2021.
“Instead, it was Pitt who refused to buy her interest unless he received his newly expanded NDA, enforceable by an $8.5 million holdback specifically designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up,” the court docket paperwork said.
A supply near Jolie additional commented to Fox Information Digital in regards to the newest submitting.
Angelina Jolie accuses ex Brad Pitt of trying to “silence” her with an $8.5 million non-disclosure settlement after allegations of abuse. Pitt disputes the claims. (Getty Photos)
“Brad Pitt’s insistence on an NDA to cover up his criminal conduct is unconscionable, and no abuse survivor should be coerced and forced into silence,” the assertion stated.
“She never pressed charges, she left him all their properties and she is the one who tried to sell him the business in the first place. Yet he was not satisfied and still he sued her and continues to attack her in the press today. All she wants is peace and the ability to heal their family.”
Pitt and Jolie share six kids collectively — Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Knox and Vivienne.
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Pitt and Jolie share six kids collectively — Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Knox and Vivienne. (Getty Photos)
The “Bullet Train” actor disputed Jolie’s argument.
“This was a simple business dispute, but, sadly, this legal attack is just the latest example of them harming the entire family by making it personal,” a supply near Pitt advised Fox Information Digital.
“The opposite facet is desperately and repeatedly making an attempt to do something to distract from the truth that it was her — and never Brad — who requested an NDA in regards to the divorce, a incontrovertible fact that utterly undermines the legitimacy of their endless assaults.”
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In court docket paperwork filed July 25 and obtained by Fox Information Digital, Jolie’s attorneys argued the “Maleficent” star and their kids have been “victims of Pitt’s purportedly ‘private’ abuse and cover-up.” (Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio by way of Getty Photos I David M. Benett/Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/WireImage)
“They don’t want anyone to focus on the fact that she deprived the kids of their inheritance of Miraval by breaching the agreement and selling it and taking the money.”
The previous couple purchased a controlling stake in Château Miraval in 2008 and hung out on the dwelling all through their relationship. Jolie tried to promote her firm, Nouvel, to Tenute Del Mondo, a subsidiary of the Stoli Group, in 2021, successfully transferring her 50% possession curiosity in Miraval. Pitt has fought this sale, claiming the transfer breached a contract between the 2.
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Pitt and Jolie have been battling in court docket over their Seventeenth-century French property, Château Miraval. (Michel Gangne)
Jolie’s firm claimed Pitt has been the mastermind of a “vindictive campaign” to “loot” the worthwhile enterprise since she first filed for divorce in 2016.
Nouvel accused Pitt of “hijacking” Château Miraval and “wasting” the corporate’s property on pointless renovation tasks, together with $1 million on swimming pool renovations, in accordance with court docket paperwork beforehand obtained by Fox Information Digital.
In March, the court docket rejected Jolie’s declare Pitt’s lawsuit was frivolous and malicious and gave the inexperienced mild for a trial.
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Fox Information Digital’s Lauryn Overhults and Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
