Company Founded By Angelina Jolie Sues Brad Pitt for $250 Million Over French Winery Battle

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Brad Pitt SUING Ex Angelina Jolie For Winery Sale

The ineligible play betwixt Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has reached a caller height.

According to tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Nouvel, the institution the Maleficent actress founded, has filed a $250 cardinal suit against the Bullet Train actor, alleging that helium devised a run to "seize control" of Chateau Miraval—the 1300-acre state estate the erstwhile mates bought unneurotic successful 2008—after their divorce.

"In retaliation for the divorce and custody proceedings, Pitt embarked connected a multi-faceted, years-long run to prehend power of Chateau Miraval and due the company's assets for his payment and that of his ain companies and friends," the ailment filed Sept. 6 reads. "Appointing himself the rightful proprietor of Chateau Miraval, his duplicate objectives were to usurp the worth of Jolie's company, Nouvel, and to get sole ownership of Chateau Miraval."

The suit states that Pitt "wasted" the Chateau's assets, "spending millions connected vanity projects, including much than $1 cardinal connected swimming excavation renovations and different funds restoring a signaling studio."

It further alleges that he "attempted to crook implicit 50% of the ownership of Chateau Miraval's astir invaluable assets, the Miraval trademarks" to 1 of his friends for free, taking "millions of dollars of worth from Nouvel and enactment it successful the pockets of Pitt and his friends."

The suit besides states that the Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood star and Jolie—who stock six children together—had an statement that she would oversee their humanitarian projects, including the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, portion "oversight of the couple's concern successful Chateau Miraval was near successful the hands of Pitt."

However, the suit alleges Pitt operated the winery without conferring with Jolie and erstwhile she asked to get much accusation and power implicit the property, Pitt tried to "block Jolie and Nouvel from obtaining accusation astir oregon managing Chateau Miraval."

In October 2021, the suit states that Jolie sold Nouvel to an planetary beverage institution aft Pitt "ignored Jolie's last connection to merchantability her involvement successful the winery connected the aforesaid presumption Pitt had projected but without the hush clause." 

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"Although Jolie was not obligated to merchantability to Pitt, she nevertheless offered to merchantability her involvement to him and negotiated with him for months," the suit reads. "Nearing a deal, Pitt's hubris got the amended of him: he made an eleventh-hour request for onerous and irrelevant conditions, including a proviso designed to prohibit Jolie from publically speaking astir the events that had led to the breakdown of their marriage. Pitt knew that overmuch of Jolie's wealthiness and liquidity were tied up successful Nouvel and utilized that information to effort to unit Jolie to hold to his unreasonable terms."

In effect to the filing, a root adjacent to Pitt told E! News that the suit is "yet different rehash and repackaging of aged worldly to effort and distract from the different party's ain behavior." 

This suit is the latest successful the erstwhile couple's ineligible conflict implicit the French estate. In February, Pitt filed a lawsuit against Jolie for allegedly selling her interests successful their once-shared French winery without his permission.

And successful June, the Troy actor filed tribunal documents alleging, "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."

At the time, E! News reached retired to Jolie's team, who declined to comment.

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