Brad Pitt has secured a procedural authorized victory in his long-running vineyard dispute with ex-wife Angelina Jolie. A Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose has ordered Jolie to show over beforehand withheld, unredacted communications associated to their authorized battle over Chateau Miraval.In response to courtroom paperwork, the ruling was issued on Wednesday, December 17—only a day earlier than Pitt’s 62nd birthday. The choose granted Pitt’s movement to compel discovery, directing Jolie, 50, to provide full variations of sure non-attorney communications that have been earlier shielded below claims of privilege.“The Court docket orders Jolie to provide in full, inside 45 days of this Order, unredacted variations of the communications exchanged between non-attorneys within the 22 paperwork recognized on Jolie’s February 14, 2025 privilege log with the Doc ID numbers set forth within the Appendix to this Order,” the courtroom doc said.
Pitt’s staff says emails might reveal ‘true intentions’
Reacting to the ruling, a supply advised Folks that Pitt’s authorized staff believes the emails might strengthen his case.“The emails would show Jolie has been disingenuous because the begin relating to her true intentions about promoting her share of the enterprise to Stoli,” the supply claimed.Pitt had filed the lawsuit in 2022, alleging that Jolie bought her stake in Chateau Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group, regardless of an settlement that neither occasion would promote with out the opposite’s consent.
Jolie denies settlement, calls lawsuit ‘vindictive’
Jolie has denied the existence of any such settlement and responded with a countersuit, accusing Pitt of “waging a vindictive conflict in opposition to” her following their separation.Her authorized staff has additionally argued that Pitt refused to purchase her out of the vineyard as a result of she declined to signal a non-disclosure settlement that was allegedly “designed to drive her silence about his abuse and cover-up.” The declare refers to a 2016 non-public jet flight throughout which Pitt was accused of verbal and bodily abuse towards his household. Pitt was not charged after investigations, and Jolie declined to press expenses on the time.
$35 million damages declare and NDA dispute
Extra just lately, courtroom filings revealed that Pitt is in search of $35 million in damages, linked to Jolie’s 2021 sale of her stake within the vineyard.On October 29, Pitt’s authorized staff submitted communications exchanged with Jolie’s representatives as proof. One exhibit included a November 2023 e mail from Jolie’s attorneys responding to Pitt’s lawsuit.“The burdensome nature of any manufacturing is a matter of Mr. Pitt’s personal creation—he’s suing Ms. Jolie for $35 million in damages,” her attorneys wrote. “Because of this, he has to incur the expense of manufacturing the paperwork that may present (or not present) these damages.”An October 2023 e mail from Jolie’s staff additionally said that Pitt was “in search of ongoing damages for alleged hurt to Miraval’s ongoing operations.”They additional pointed to “Pitt’s persevering with refusals to provide paperwork referring to the the explanation why he wanted his four-year NDA overlaying his private misconduct,” arguing that these communications have been central “to the guts of our case and have to be produced.” Pitt and Jolie, who share six kids—Maddox, 24; Pax, 22; Zahara, 20; Shiloh, 19; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17—finalised their divorce in December 2024. Jolie had initially filed for divorce in September 2016, bringing one in all Hollywood’s most intently watched authorized sagas nearer to its finish, at the same time as their vineyard dispute continues.