Brad Pitt denounces Angelina for "damaging the reputation" of his wine company
Despite the time they have been separated, the legal battles between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have no time to end.
American actor Brad Pitt denounced his ex-partner, actress Angelina Jolie, for "deliberately damaging the reputation" of his wine company in France and selling her share in it to a "stranger," local press reports.
The couple had acquired the Miraval vineyard in 2008 for 45 million euros (53 million dollars), with its corresponding mansion, in Provence (southeast France), where years later they married and enjoyed several family vacations with their six children.
Now, the actor's team in charge of the legal case opened for the sale of this property accuses Jolie of intentionally harming her ex-husband by selling her share in the company without her consent, as reported. in documents leaked to the press.
Pitt's defense maintains that Jolie not only did not contribute "anything" to the success of Miraval, a project that the actor was passionate about but that she completed the sale "secretly" and knowingly violating the conditions she had agreed upon with Pitt, according to which Neither of them could sell their interests in that business without the consent of the other.
According to the TMZ portal, Jolie sold the space that belonged to Pitt to the Russian businessman, Yuri Shefler, despite the previous agreement not to make any type of transaction regarding the property called Miraval.
"Jolie consummated the alleged sale without Pitt's consent, denying him the right of consent that owed him the right of first refusal that her business entity owed him," the letter reads at the beginning.
"She sold her interest with the knowledge and intent that Shefler and his partners would seek to control the business in which Pitt had been engaged and undermine Pitt's investment in Miraval," the document states.
The property that has given rise to the legal dispute is located in France, specifically in the town of Correns, in the Provence region, in the southeast of the European country. The ex-couple acquired it in 2008 for $28.4 million.
In addition to having a large vineyard, in which Pitt would have invested a large amount of money, the place has 35 rooms and is surrounded by lush gardens with a moat, fountains, aqueducts, a pond, and a chapel. The couple married there in 2014.
