Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of attempting to “silence her” with an NDA. The actress and actor, who split in 2016, remain on opposite sides when it comes to their once shared winery, Chateau Miraval. The former couple purchased the French estate together in 2008 but have been at odds over the property since 2022, when Brad sued Angelina for allegedly selling her stake in the winery without his consent.
Now, two years later, the civil suit, as well as a custody battle between the parents of six, carry on. Lawyers for the Eternals actress submitted new court documents in the Chateau Miraval case on August 1st. In their latest filing, obtained by ET on August 2nd, Jolie’s team supports her previous motion to have Pitt turn over his records involving a 2016 plane incident during which Angelina alleged, in a 2022 court filing, that Brad choked one of their six children.
The motion was previously called a “sensationalist fishing expedition” by Pitt’s attorneys in a filing obtained by ET on July 17th. However, Jolie’s legal team said she is simply defending herself from Pitt’s baseless allegations. ET has reached out to Pitt’s team, who is not commenting.
The docs later state, “Pitt’s narrative is that this case is just about a business dispute, but that is Pitt’s theory. Jolie’s theory is that this is about Pitt’s attempt to use Miraval as leverage to control and enforce her silence. The jury will decide what the evidence shows, but for now, Jolie is entitled to gather the evidence she needs to support her theory.”
Jolie’s team also notes in the docs that she was not acting with malice by selling her stake in the winery. The filing alleges it was Pitt who refused to buy her interest unless he received a newly expanded NDA enforceable by an $8.5 million holdback specifically designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up.
The conversation involving non-disclosure agreements has been an ongoing one, given that a judge ordered Jolie to produce eight years’ worth of them. In a court filing obtained by ET in April, a judge granted Pitt’s motion to order Jolie to produce, within 60 calendar days, all non-privileged documents in her possession, custody, or control, along with a privilege log including sufficient factual information regarding any and all responsive documents that Jolie asserts are privileged to allow plaintiffs to evaluate the merits of Jolie’s assertions of privilege.
