"He acted like a petulant child," said Angelina Jolie's lawyers after suing Brad Pitt for "looting" vineyards in Miraval, a property they both bought.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are still in legal disputes after their divorce in 2016. Now, the actress who played 'Maleficent' sued the 'Troy' actor for $350 million in damages for “looting” the Chateau vineyards Miraval, a French vineyard property that the former couple acquired for $27 million in 2008.
According to the documents released by CNN, Angelina Jolie, through her former investment company 'Nouvel', accused Brad Pitt of taking control of Cháteau Miraval by "looting" her assets to take over the vineyards.
According to documents presented on Monday, July 10, Brad Pitt allegedly misused company resources by extravagantly spending millions on personal ventures. This includes over $1 million dedicated to pool renovations, the construction, and reconstruction of a staircase on four separate occasions, as well as shelling out millions for the refurbishment of a recording studio.
In that sense, Jolie's association described Pitt as a "petulant child" by showing his refusal to see Tenute del Mondo as a partner of Chateau Miraval, a subsidiary of Stoli Gouo, owned by Russian billionaire Yuri Scheffler, who bought part of the vineyard to the businesswoman for 67 million dollars.
According to the documents, Brad Pitt was furious about the sale made by Angelina Jolie, which is why he sued her, arguing the existence of an agreement where neither could sell her part of the Miraval without the consent of the other.
Faced with the lawsuit, Angelina Jolie filed a countersuit against Brad Pitt stating that there was no such agreement and that she did sell her part of the property "to have some form of peace and close this deeply painful and traumatic chapter of her life and that of her family." children".
According to the legal documents, Brad Pitt has exhibited childish behavior due to his displeasure over Angelina Jolie selling Nouvel to Stoli instead of him. He has refused to treat Nouvel as an equal partner in the business, which has left him feeling outraged and resentful.
In a previous instance, attorney Paul Murphy, representing the actress known for her role in 'Girl, Interrupted,' recounted accusations against Brad Pitt stemming from a 2016 plane flight. During that incident, the actor from 'World War Z' allegedly assaulted his then-wife and their children.
Even today, seven years after that fateful plane trip, Brad Pitt has not publicly denied the incident. The troubling reality is that he reportedly withheld the completion of the Miraval sale with Jolie, demanding her silence about the alleged abuse as a condition for the deal.
On the other hand, a representative of Brad Pitt criticized the explanations read in the document. “He accepted responsibility for what he did, but he doesn't blame him for the things he didn't do,” he concluded.
