Angelina Jolie called Brad Pitt's demands in court for the Chateau Miraval winery "offensive"
Angelina Jolie said that Brad Pitt's claims in court for the Chateu Miraval winery were insulting. The words of the actress are quoted by Page Six. Journalists have obtained court documents detailing the non-disclosure agreement that Brad Pitt tried to force Angelina Jolie to sign as part of their failed deal with the Miraval winery. Thus, according to the lawyers of the 48-year-old actress, he tried to force her to remain silent about the fact that he abused her and children, including during a flight from France to California in 2016.
Angelina Jolie's lawyers have already stated this earlier. "Although Brad Pitt's history of physical abuse of Angelina Jolie began long before the family took off on a plane from France to Los Angeles in September 2016, this flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on children. After that Angelina Jolie immediately left him,” the lawyers said.
Brad Pitt is demanding that the court see all non-disclosure documents that his ex-wife signed during her long career. The actress argues in new court papers that handing over other nondisclosure papers she signed would be an invasion of the privacy of other parties—presumably movie studios, brands and employees—by disclosing "contracts that include Angelina Jolie's compensation or compensation she has paid to third parties."
Jolie's lawyers claim Pitt wanted her to sign an unfairly "onerous" non-disclosure document "covering Pitt's personal misconduct, Miraval-related or not" in order for her to sell her stake to him.
The ex-spouses' deal fell through - according to Jolie, due to an unfair non-disclosure document, and so she sold her shares to a subsidiary of the Stoli Group. Brad Pitt, 60, opposed the deal with Stoli and claims that it unfairly sold the stake without his knowledge.
Previously, Brad Pitt's team filed documents in Los Angeles Superior Court, saying that Angelina Jolie must disclose information about other non-disclosure agreements she has entered into with third parties, including her personal staff. The actor's side said the papers would shed light on whether Angelina Jolie truly believed Brad Pitt's non-disclosure request was "what she subsequently claimed."
"Brad Pitt apparently intends to claim that over the past two decades, Angelina Jolie has entered into, or at least considered, other non-disclosure agreements with other people and entities on other matters unrelated to Brad Pitt's abuses. According to him, "He wants to prove that because Jolie considered and/or entered into other non-disclosure agreements during her long career, his proposed non-disclosure agreement regarding spousal and child abuse could not have caused the deal to collapse," Jolie's lawyers respond. .
The actress's lawyers believe that the actor's side is trying to prove the fact that there is nothing terrible or humiliating in concluding non-disclosure documents, citing the fact that Angelina Jolie signed many such documents, but allegedly is silent that this document deals with physical violence in regarding the family, and not just information about trade secrets or legal issues.
Jolie's defenders argue that providing such extensive documents would result in the disclosure of private information about other people, which would violate their rights: "At their core, Brad Pitt's requests are aimed at invading Jolie's privacy. Most, if not all, of these agreements will be related to employment relationship and will include remuneration of Angelina Jolie or remuneration she has paid to third parties. These third parties have their own privacy rights and Brad Pitt is not giving them any notice to enable them to enforce their rights."
Lawyers argue that these documents have nothing to do with this case and spending time preparing them is expensive, wasteful and unreasonable. They call it an example of Brad Pitt's "abusive behavior" towards Angelina Jolie and say the motion "illustrates the harm and humiliation that victims of domestic violence face in court." Brad Pitt's side claims that this is simply a business dispute around the estate and winery, in which the other side for some reason interferes with personal matters that have nothing to do with it.
The hearing itself will take place on May 16, but there will not be a full trial this year.
The former couple have been suing over the winery they purchased in 2008 since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. The legal battle over the estate is being fought in courts in California and Luxembourg. Angelina Jolie has not been to the estate since 2016, the documents state.
It was also reported in the press that the actress stated that legal disputes with her ex-husband had significantly depleted her fortune, which did not prevent her from buying premises in New York, which previously belonged to Andy Warhol, in order to open her atelier there.
Brad Pitt has won several legal victories recently. This included a court in Luxembourg returning control of the Chateau Miraval vineyard to him, and the Los Angeles Superior Court rejecting Angelina Jolie's claims that his lawsuit was "frivolous, malicious and part of a problematic scheme."