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Angelina Jolie Asks Brad Pitt to "End the Fighting" in Legal Battle
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Date:2025-04-18 12:55:33
Angelina Jolie is calling for Brad Pitt to drop his lawsuit against her.
The Maleficent star—who filed for divorce from the Fight Club alum in 2016 after two years of marriage—has been embroiled in a heated civil suit from her ex after selling her stakes in their once-shared French estate and vineyard Château Miraval.
As part of the ongoing legal proceedings, Jolie recently asked the court to order Pitt to turn over any third-party communications he has about their 2016 plane incident, during which she alleged in an earlier court filing that the Bullet Train actor had choked one of their six kids: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 16.
In a filing obtained by E! News July 17, Pitt's attorneys slammed the Eternals actress' request as a "sensationalist fishing expedition" into "some of the most deeply personal aspects of her ex-husband’s life," leading her legal team to issue a response.
"We are not at all surprised Mr. Pitt is afraid to turn over the documents," Jolie's attorney said in a statement obtained by E! News July 17. "While Angelina again asks Mr. Pitt to end the fighting and finally put their family on a clear path toward healing, unless Mr. Pitt withdraws his lawsuit, Angelina has no choice but to obtain the evidence necessary to prove his allegations wrong."
Pitt's reps declined to comment, though his attorney Anne Kiley previously told E! of Jolie's choking allegations, "Brad has owned everything he's responsible for from day one—unlike the other side—but he's not going to own anything he didn't do. He has been on the receiving end of every type of personal attack and misrepresentation."
In previous court filings, Pitt accused Jolie of selling her Château Miraval shares to a third party without his consent, violating an alleged verbal agreement they had. Meanwhile, Jolie's legal team contended that she did so because Pitt allegedly presented her with a last-minute, restrictive non-disclosure agreement (NDA) as part of his deal to buy her out.
"Although Jolie was not obligated to sell to Pitt, she nevertheless offered to sell her interest to him and negotiated with him for months," a filing from the Girl, Interrupted alum's legal team read. "Nearing a deal, Pitt's hubris got the better of him: he made an eleventh-hour demand for onerous and irrelevant conditions, including a provision designed to prohibit Jolie from publicly speaking about the events that had led to the breakdown of their marriage."
In 2022, Nouvel—a holding company founded by Jolie that she sold off to an international beverage company in 2021 as part of the winery deal—countersued Pitt for attempting to "usurp" power and obtain sole ownership of Château Miraval.
"In retaliation for the divorce and custody proceedings, Pitt embarked on a multi-faceted, years-long campaign to seize control of Chateau Miraval," the complaint alleged, "and appropriate the company's assets for his benefit and that of his own companies and friends."
At the time, a source close to Pitt told E! News that the countersuit was "yet another rehash and repackaging of old material to try and distract from the other party's own behavior."
In the latest court filing from Pitt's side, his attorneys argued that there "is no valid reason to relitigate family law issues in this forum" by granting Jolie's request to see Pitt’s communication about the plane incident.
"The truth is that it is a business dispute about a family estate and winery," they wrote. "For the reasons stated herein, Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court deny the Motion."
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