The authorized battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt rages on, with a brand new movement filed Thursday that alleges Pitt had a “history of physical abuse” in opposition to Jolie earlier than the 2016 airplane incident that precipitated their divorce.
The movement was filed by Jolie’s authorized workforce to the Los Angeles Superior Court as a part of an ongoing dispute between the ex-spouses over the Miraval vineyard they used to personal collectively within the south of France. Pitt lobbed the primary grenade in February 2022 when he sued Jolie for promoting her share of the vineyard to a Russian oligarch as a substitute of to him.
He claimed that the pair agreed they might promote their stakes in Château Miraval individually “only with the other’s consent,” a declare that Jolie has denied.
Jolie filed a countersuit, claiming she offered her portion of the vineyard after negotiations to promote to Pitt broke down. He allegedly insisted that Jolie signal a “nondisclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children.”
These allegations stemmed from a now-infamous 2016 flight on a non-public jet that the household took collectively. Days after the flight, Jolie filed for divorce.
Pitt allegedly “choked one of the children and struck another in the face” and “grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her,” based on the submitting.
The FBI investigated the alleged airplane incident in 2016 however didn’t convey ahead any expenses in opposition to Pitt. Jolie by no means filed expenses in opposition to Pitt for the alleged abuse.
In Thursday’s submitting, Jolie’s workforce alleges that Pitt’s abusive behaviour began “well before” the 2016 flight.
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“While Pitt’s history of physical abuse of Jolie started well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip from France to Los Angeles, this flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on the children as well,” the brand new movement states. “Jolie then immediately left him.”
The movement requests entry to communications between Pitt and the FBI, the U.S. lawyer’s workplace, the Los Angeles Police Department and the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services concerning the 2016 airplane incident. In specific, Jolie’s workforce is looking for details about the investigation of the incident, drug and alcohol testing and a security plan that baby and household providers allegedly required Pitt to observe.
Jolie’s workforce can be submitting to amass Pitt’s communications associated to the “all-encompassing” nondisclosure settlement that tanked the Miraval sale. Her attorneys argued that Jolie and Pitt had been near reaching an settlement for Pitt to purchase out Jolie’s portion of the property earlier than he allegedly received chilly ft.
“If that sale had been completed, this lawsuit never would have happened. But at the last minute, Pitt ‘stepped back’ from his agreement to buy Jolie’s interest in Miraval, and the deal collapsed,” the movement reads, based on the Los Angeles Times.
Jolie’s authorized workforce believes the explanation Pitt backed out is due to a separate, however simultaneous, authorized dispute over the custody of their youngsters. As a part of the custody battle, Jolie submitted sealed paperwork to the courtroom titled “Testimony Regarding Domestic Violence” and “Testimony of Minor Children.”
These testimonies “apparently enraged Pitt.”
“When Jolie filed the evidence in the custody suit, she was careful to file it under seal so that no member of the public could see it. But Jolie’s sealed filing, which included emails, summaries of the family’s expected testimony, and other evidence, caused Pitt to fear that the information could eventually become public,” the movement reads.
That’s when Pitt determined to hinge the acquisition of Jolie’s share of the Miraval vineyard on her signing an expanded NDA to “contractually bind herself to that silence,” her attorneys argue.
“Mr. Pitt refused to purchase Ms. Jolie’s interest when she would not be silenced by his NDA. By refusing to buy her interest but then suing her, Mr. Pitt put directly at issue why that NDA was so important to him and what he hoped it would bury: his abuse of Ms. Jolie and their family,” Paul Murphy, Jolie’s lawyer, instructed CNN. “After eight months of delays, this motion asks the Court to force Mr. Pitt to finally produce that evidence.”
Pitt, nonetheless, claims that Jolie was the one who recommended an expanded “non-disparagement clause” as a part of the sale, and that Pitt’s authorized workforce had been looking for a “narrower” clause “intended to protect the business,” in a 2023 submitting.
Pitt was sued by the brand new co-owners of the Miraval vineyard in July 2023, who accused him of “looting” the property and losing firm cash on frivolous renovations.
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