The legal battle between the actress continues Angelina Jolie and ex-husband Brad Pitt for the Château Miraval winery in Provence, which she co-owned with the actor. According to new court documents presented to the court by Jolie’s lawyers, the actress defines her ex-husband as “One child irritated And…ridiculous!“.
The litigation
It all started last year when the actor sued his ex-wife for the crime secretly sold his portion of the estate to a Russian-born businessman, Yuri Shefler. Now the Lara Croft actress has presented her version of the facts in court, refuting Brad Pitt’s version that he would always be the one to look after the estate and the crops that came with it. Thus, the Troy star would be accused of “looting” the French estate and spending millions of dollars renovating the swimming pool and building a recording studio. They are too 350 million dollars Compensation payments sought by the Hollywood actor in the lawsuit filed.
Angelina Jolie’s allegations
As reported by Financial Time and Hollywood Life, Jolie didn’t just limit herself to suing her ex-husband, she actually did mocked – merciless – over his claims that he “built” their winery in Provence. If Brad Pitt had defined himself as a “farmer” in an interview published with Wine Spectator in 2014, the actress’ ex-husband would never have delved into the activity, on the contrary, although Pitt defined himself as a “producer of…” wine. acted for her at best “with illusions, not with land and grapes”. And once again Jolie added, “At most she visited the vineyards to admire the work of the French workers who actually did the deal.” He then explained that given the actor’s on-set commitments, he wasn’t serious about the estate “During the years that he was said to be ‘building’ the business, he worked tirelessly on sets and appeared in dozens of films.” Attending Hollywood parties. Pitt is anything but a “vigneron”“.
The origin of Château Miraval
The Château Miraval winery is located in southern France, in Provence, and was bought in 2008 by Brad Pitt and his then-wife Angelina Jolie for 25 million euros. The couple became equal owners of 50% of the entire estate and vineyard and decided to celebrate their wedding right there in 2014. The actress afterwards sold his share in 2021 and Pitt sued her in February 2022 for allegedly illegally selling her stake to Yuri Shefler, a Russian businessman. In addition, according to Brad, the ex-wife became rich during his time “intentionally harmed”according to court documents filed in early June 2022.