“Brad has owned everything he’s accountable for from day one, unlike Angelina,” Pitt’s attorney responds, “and he’s not going to own anything further.”
According to a source close to Angelina Jolie, she refused to sign an NDA, which is why Brad Pitt is still suing their vineyard. A Pitt-side source, meanwhile, asserts that “the non-disparagement clause in the contract” was a component of “a totally standard” business arrangement.
Earlier this week, Pitt, 59, filed a lawsuit against Jolie over the sale of her stock in Château Miraval, a French enterprise that owns a home and vineyard in the south of France where the couple wed in 2014. Pitt disputes Jolie’s selling of her part in the latest second amendment complaint.
He claims that Jolie, 47, “deliberately kept him in the dark about the sale of her share of their family wine business to a Russian oligarch” after their split and that the connection to the purchaser poses a “existential threat to the business.”
In court documents, it is said that the couple bought “the château as a home to share with their children and the vineyard as a family business.” Additionally, “Jolie, though supportive of Pitt’s efforts on behalf of the family, did none of the work necessary for Miraval’s success.” was added.
In the documents, Pitt’s legal team said that “the alleged sale disrupts Pitt’s right to enjoy the home he established for his family.”
A source close to Jolie claims that she refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement that would have stopped her from talking about earlier claims of domestic abuse, which is why Pitt is suing over the sale. To the contrary, a source close to Pitt tells PEOPLE that “there was a non-disparagement clause in the contract, but that is totally standard to business transactions like this.”
Source: “Brad requested a mutual NDA and non-disparagement strictly related to Miraval over concerns around sensitive financial information and protecting the brand, which is standard with these types of transactions,” source claims. It has nothing to do with the divorce or the children.
“Brad has owned everything he’s responsible for from day one, unlike Angelina,” Pitt’s lawyer Anne Kiley of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP tells PEOPLE. We allude to the outcomes after he has been through every agency, professional, and two court hearings she has thrown at him.
Jolie’s earlier charges were made public in court documents that were made available last year. These charges centered around a flight they took in 2016 with their six kids; days later, she filed for divorce due to this event.
No matter how many times he modifies his accusation, the source claims that Mr. Pitt “cannot escape from the fact that he verbally and physically assaulted Ms. Jolie and their children—even choking one of the children and striking another.”
Even now, seven years after that terrible airline journey, the insider claims that he personally has never publicly denied that it occurred. Mr. Pitt’s assertion that he is suing his ex-wife to protect his family is difficult to understand given that he is fully aware that the kids have not been welcome at the French residence for almost seven years as a result of the reasons Ms. Jolie cited in her divorce petition.
The source claims that “the truth is that Pitt wouldn’t close the sale of Miraval with Jolie unless she agreed to be silent about the abuse as he demanded that $8.5 million be withheld to force her to stay quiet.”
“Ms. Jolie was unwilling to talk about what had happened. In reality, she has never even made the attempt; instead, she has dedicated her life to assisting the children’s rehabilitation and reforming the nation’s shamefully insufficient response to domestic abuse. The only reason this information is now widely known is because Mr. Pitt chose to file a lawsuit against her for breaking their confidentiality agreement.
According to a source close to Pitt, “it’s incredibly sad that she keeps rehashing, revising, and reimagining her description of an event that occurred six years ago, adding in completely untrue information to try and get more attention for herself at the expense of their family.” In a response submitted in October for the winery case, Jolie’s legal team brought up the 2016 plane allegations.
She was given the opportunity to disclose information to law enforcement, who chose not to press charges. She is now attempting to bring up the same topic once more. returning to the same subject each month with new information that is inaccurate to further her own particular objectives.
The FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services looked into the incident after hearing of a reported fight between Pitt and Jolie while both were intoxicated. The incident took place when their family was arriving at their Los Angeles home from France on a private plane. Pitt allegedly got “verbally abusive” and “physical” with one of their children on the plane, according to a source at the time. Pitt said he did nothing wrong.
The FBI concluded their investigation without charging Pitt by November of that year. Following the event earlier that month, DCFS also finished its investigation, although it did not find any proof of abuse.
Jolie spoke on her divorce in an interview with The Guardian in 2021 and stated, “I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly. It took me a long time to get to the point where I felt I had to break off contact with the father of my kids.
Jolie stated that she was “broken” by her experiences at the time and hoped that her family, “including their dad,” could find a way to move on. She said, “There’s a lot I can’t say.”
