Angelina Jolie turns up the heat in war with Brad Pitt over $500 million Miraval winery as lawyers call out her demands – Daily Mail

• Pitt, 60, had recently filed a motion asking to see Jolie, 48,’s NDAs with third parties.
• His lawyers called the decision “costly,” “wasteful,” “unreasonable” and “abusive,” according to court documents.
• Jolie claimed her ex asked her to sign an extensive confidentiality agreement as part of their winery deal, as he tried to silence her and talk about allegations he was violent towards her and her children, notably during a flight between France and California in 2016.

Angelina Jolie has turned up the heat on Brad Pitt as their war over $500 million Chateau Miraval winery gets even uglier as his lawyers called his NDA request ‘abusive’ just days after she accused him of trying to “bleed her dry” in their ongoing bitter legal battle.

Pitt, 60, had recently filed a motion seeking to see Jolie, 48,’s NDAs with third parties and now his lawyers have called the move “expensive,” “wasteful,” “unreasonable” and ” abusive,” according to the court. documents obtained by Page Six on Friday.

The publication reports that Jolie had argued in court documents that her ex asked her to sign an extensive confidentiality agreement as part of their “scuttled” deal for the winery because he was trying to silence her and not talk about allegations that he was violent towards her and her children. notably on a flight from France to California in 2016.

Earlier this month, Jolie’s allegations through her lawyers were reported: “While Pitt’s history of physical violence toward Jolie began well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip between France and Los Angeles, this flight marked the first time that he also subjected children to physical violence.’

Now, according to Page Six, the actress claims in new court documents that handing over the other confidentiality agreements she signed would constitute an invasion of the privacy of other parties – whose release notes are presumably studios of cinema, brands and employees – because it reveals “contracts that include Jolie’s compensation or compensation she has paid to third parties.”

Jolie’s team also claimed that Pitt wanted her to sign an unfairly “onerous” and “expansive” NDA, “covering up Pitt’s personal misconduct, whether related to Miraval or not,” in exchange for her sale of its participation.

Their deal ultimately fell through as Jolie claims it was due to the NDA and the actress proceeded to sell her shares to a subsidiary of the Stoli Group. Pitt responded by opposing the deal with Stoli while alleging that she had unfairly sold the stake under her control.

Earlier this month, DailyMail.com exclusively reported that the ongoing legal battle – dnicknamed “the rosé wars” – saw Jolie accuse “control” ex Pitt to “exhaust him financially”, through the long legal battle over the cellar which has harassed the couple since their separation in 2016.

But as she seeks to claim her ex is ‘bleeding her dry’, DailyMail.com can reveal that since their ten-year relationship ended in divorce after two years of marriage, her fortune has soared .

Far from diminishing her funds, a DailyMail.com investigation reveals that Jolie’s relationship with Pitt helped enrich her by nearly $100 million.

This money comes from loans, child support, gifts and the millions she made from the sale of her 50 percent share in the property at the heart of the dispute – Chateau Miraval – ten percent of which was a gift from Pitt.

The couple’s former French home, a stunning 1,200-acre estate and vineyard, was worth $60 million when they purchased it in 2008. Today, thanks to Pitt’s efforts and investment in the The company’s value is an astronomical $164 million.

And while Jolie, 48, appears to cry poverty in her latest court filings, sources close to Pitt point out that the Tomb Raider star had enough money to sign a recent deal to take over 57 Great Jones Street, a unique space in Manhattan. owned by Andy Warhol and previously rented for $60,000 a month.

Jolie signed an eight-year lease for the 6,600-square-foot property to use as a store to promote her fashion brand, Atelier Jolie.

In newly filed court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, the actress claims: “It is extremely painful for Jolie to have to defend herself against Pitt’s lawsuit – itself another example of Pitt’s relentless efforts to control and drain her financially – especially because of Pitt’s false allegations as to why the Miraval deal fell through, can only be proven by doing exactly what Jolie never wanted to do: provide the trier of fact with the facts. reason the Miraval deal fell through, namely Pitt’s request for an NDA to cover up his history of physical and emotional abuse towards Jolie and their family.

According to a source close to the situation: “Angie says Brad is bleeding her dry – but it looks like she wants to bleed him dry.

“Far from wanting to ruin his ex, it seems Brad went out of his way to support Angie and help her financially despite her appearing so vindictive,” the source added.

Pitt had initially sought to buy out Jolie himself, in order to keep the winery “in the family” if she wished to retire. But the deal collapsed amid acrimony.

Pitt accused Jolie of violating their purchase agreement when she sold her 50% stake in Château Miraval to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler, in 2021, without her ex-husband’s consent.

According to Jolie, the earlier offer to sell him to Pitt for $54 million imploded due to her demands.

But friends of the Oscar-winning Upon a Time in Hollywood star have rallied to defend Pitt as a man who has been nothing but generous in his dealings with the actress.

As of 2018, Pitt spent more than $1.3 million on child support, including therapy for the children, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in miscellaneous bills.

According to sources, Pitt has been paying these expenses regularly over the past seven years, during which time he is said to have racked up nearly $10 million in child support.

When the then-couple purchased Miraval in 2008, Pitt took a 60 percent stake in the wine business and estate, while Jolie took 40 percent.

Pitt invested millions in the field, riding the rosé wave and growing the business in an effort that saw sales increase 300 percent.

Soon, the estate they purchased for an estimated $60 million was worth closer to $164 million.

By the time of their marriage, Jolie had “stopped investing,” according to previously filed court documents — which she denied.

However, Pitt transferred 10 percent of his share to her as a wedding gift in December 2013 “for the sum of 1 euro”. [never paid]” so that by the time they married in August 2014, they were 50/50 equal partners.

In addition to this generous gift, Pitt gave his wife a rare painting by Winston Churchill, “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” ​​which she sold in March 2021 for $11.5 million.

He loaned her $8 million to buy her current home in Los Angeles in 2018.

Jolie purchased the large Los Feliz resort, which once housed Cecil B. DeMille, for $24.5 million and has since claimed that Pitt’s $8 million was in the form of an interest-bearing loan and of a repayment plan.

Ironically, she told Vogue that she chose the property because she wanted the children to be closer to their father who lives just five minutes away.

Meanwhile, as the war over the sale of the winery continues, Pitt has scored several legal victories in recent months, including a key judgment in Luxembourg that returned him control of the award-winning Château Miraval vineyard pending further hearings .

Last month, he scored another victory when the Los Angeles Superior Court rejected Jolie’s claims that her lawsuit was “frivolous, malicious and part of a problematic pattern.”