Brad Pitt accused of ‘looting’ French winery he owned with Angelina Jolie – National | 24CA News
An escalating authorized battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie over Château Miraval, a French vineyard they used to personal collectively, has resulted in a brand new courtroom submitting that accuses Pitt of appearing like a “petulant child” after Jolie offered her share of the enterprise.
Jolie’s former funding firm, Nouvel — by means of which she beforehand owned a big stake in Château Miraval earlier than promoting your entire firm to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler — is suing Pitt for no less than US$350 million, the Financial Times reported.
Nouvel accuses Pitt of “stripping” and “looting” Château Miraval, a lush property in Provence that produces rosé, of its property by losing firm cash on frivolous renovations.
“Pitt wasted the company’s assets, spending millions on vanity projects, including more than US$1 million on swimming pool renovations, building and rebuilding a staircase four times, and spending millions to restore a recording studio,” the doc states.
The courtroom submitting additional provides that Pitt spent “nearly a million euros a year constantly rebuilding stone walls using stone masons from Croatia.”
Nouvel’s lawyer’s declare that Pitt’s “misconduct” escalated in 2021 after Jolie determined to promote the funding firm, and her share of the vineyard, to Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary of Stoli Group, which is owned by Shefler.
“Incensed that Jolie sold Nouvel to Stoli rather than him, Pitt has acted like a petulant child, refusing to treat Nouvel as an equal partner in the business,” the submitting states.
Pitt initially sued Jolie for promoting her share of the vineyard in February 2022, kicking off their authorized battle. He claimed that the pair agreed they might promote their stakes in Château Miraval individually “only with the other’s consent” — a declare that Jolie has denied.
Jolie filed a countersuit, claiming she offered her portion of the vineyard to achieve larger “financial independence” from Pitt following their 2016 divorce, and to “have some form of peace and closure to this deeply painful and traumatic chapter of her and their children’s lives.”
She claims that negotiations to promote her a part of the vineyard to Pitt broke down after he insisted the sale embrace the signing of “a nondisclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children.”
The countersuit particulars an incident the place Pitt allegedly poured beer on Jolie and poured beer and crimson wine on their kids. Jolie writes within the countersuit that she felt uncomfortable collaborating in an alcohol-related business with Pitt.
That countersuit additionally noticed allegations come to mild that Pitt was bodily and verbally abusive throughout a 2016 flight on a non-public jet with Jolie and their kids.
Pitt “choked one of the children and struck another in the face” and “grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her,” the submitting reads.
The FBI investigated the alleged aircraft incident in 2016, however didn’t deliver ahead any fees towards Pitt.
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