Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie clash over vineyard sale legality

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were once regarded as one of the most beautiful couples in show business, attracting much attention. However, their divorce skirmishes in court and the subsequent scandals have made even bigger headlines. The former lovers fought over custody of their children and their assets.

In 2008, the celebrity couple became the owners of the multimillion-dollar French estate known as Chateau Miraval with a vineyard. Problems began when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt decided to divorce. The actress initially wanted to keep 38% of the shares. Still, after the court established joint custody of the children (later granted solely to Jolie), she went a step further and allegedly tarnished her former partner's reputation.

The former spouses allegedly promised each other not to sell their shares in the vineyard without the other's consent. For this reason, Brad Pitt's business partners wanted to buy Angelina Jolie's shares (50% for CAD 66 million), but out of spite, she didn't agree to this proposal. She allegedly sold them to Stoli – a company owned by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler – and claimed she did not violate the agreement. According to inTouch, Angelina Jolie, through her own company, filed a CAD 462 million lawsuit against Brad Pitt for improper use of assets.

Both cases related to the vineyard are ongoing. The actor believes that the claims filed by his ex aren't necessarily meant to address the vineyard issue. This includes materials related to the divorce and an incident on a plane. The lawyer has commented on the ongoing litigation.

"To avoid unnecessary motion practice and another public filing rife with personal attacks, Pitt voluntarily offered to produce documents sufficient to show everything that occurred on the flight that precipitated the ex-couple’s divorce," Brad Pitt's lawyer conveyed.

According to the actor's lawyer, Angelina Jolie is publicly using the resolution of business matters to air their dirty laundry.

"If Jolie’s Requests were really about 'what happened on that plane' as she claims Pitt’s offer should have sufficed. Jolie, however, rejected Pitt’s compromise and moved to compel his communications with third parties—including his most trusted advisors—about such sensitive issues as the therapy he voluntarily undertook after the flight incident in an effort to better himself, 'drug and alcohol testing' he has allegedly undergone, his alleged 'overuse or abuse of alcohol,' and other actions taken in the aftermath of the flight. These private, third-party communications are far removed from the issues and allegations in this case, and in many cases, they have nothing but the most tenuous relationship to ‘what happened on that plane.’ Jolie, however, wants them anyway as part of her efforts to turn this business dispute into a re-litigation of the former couple’s divorce case," he added.