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Angelina Jolie Feared for Her Family's Safety After Split From Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie is sharing shocking new allegations against her ex-husband.
On Oct. 4, the histrion responded to Brad Pitt's suit over the vino company they antecedently co-owned together. In the transverse ailment obtained by E! News, Jolie addressed a 2016 airplane incident that allegedly occurred days earlier she decided to file for divorce.
According to the countersuit, a quality connected the level started erstwhile Pitt accused the histrion of being "too deferential" to their kids. Jolie's squad stated successful documents that Pitt attempted to get carnal with 1 of their kids aft the kid came to Jolie's defense.
"When 1 of the children verbally defended Jolie, Pitt lunged astatine his ain kid and Jolie grabbed him from down to halt him," the countersuit stated. "To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane's seats injuring Jolie's backmost and elbow. The children rushed successful and each bravely tried to support each other."
The documented continued, "Before it was over, Pitt choked 1 of the children and struck different successful the face. Some of the children pleaded with Pitt to stop. They were each frightened. Many were crying."
Once the household landed and was astatine the airport, Jolie told Pitt she was taking their children to the hotel. According to the countersuit, Pitt proceeded to shriek astatine his then-wife "and pushed her down yet again."
E! News has reached retired to Pitt and Jolie's teams for remark and hasn't received a comment.
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The erstwhile couple, who were declared legally single by a justice backmost successful 2019, are parents to Maddox, 21, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and 14-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
The Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services and FBI previously investigated Pitt aft an anonymous extremity surfaced astir an alleged drunken statement helium got into with Jolie portion their household traveled connected a backstage pitchy from France backmost to their Los Angeles home.
Pitt denied immoderate maltreatment and the FBI closed its probe by November 2016 with nary charges against Pitt. In the aforesaid month, DCFS also concluded its probe into the incidental with no findings of abuse.
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More precocious in February, Pitt filed a suit against Jolie for allegedly selling her interests successful their once-shared French winery without his consent.
Four months later, the actor claimed successful tribunal documents that "Jolie pursued and past consummated the purported merchantability successful secret, purposely keeping Pitt successful the dark, and knowingly violating Pitt's contractual rights. By doing so, Jolie sought to prehend profits she had not earned and returns connected an concern she did not make. Also done the purported sale, Jolie sought to inflict harm connected Pitt."
But successful Jolie's transverse complaint, the histrion denied Pitt's allegations and said "no specified statement ever existed."
"Coming connected apical of the traumatic breakup of their household and the years spent trying to heal their family—during which clip she ne'er spoke publically astir the events that led to their separation—Jolie could not instrumentality immoderate much abuse," her transverse ailment stated. "In an effort to sphere her ain intelligence wellness and well-being, Jolie decided to crook implicit the negotiations to her designated representatives and fto them determine however champion to finalize immoderate sale."
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