Brad Pitt is now SUING Angelina Jolie for allegedly selling her share in their once-shared
winery.
Let’s get into everything we know.
Amid an already brutal divorce and messy legal battle over the custody of their children,
it looks like things aren’t exactly looking up for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Brad is reportedly taking Angelina back to court according to some new legal documents,
which claim that Brad is suing Angelina after she sold off her share of their French estate,
Château Miraval.
The two have some serious history with the winery, and bought the property as a joint
investment back in 2008 for a whopping $28.4 million.
As you may remember, they even tied the knot at a private chapel on the vineyard grounds
back in 2014.
Brad even claimed that he uses the 35-bedroom mansion as his “private home!”
So…why exactly is this all going down?
Well, according to the suit, Brad claimed that while the vineyard became his “passion,”
Angelina quietly sold off her share to Russian businessman, Yuri Shefler— allegedly without
his permission.
In the complaint, Brad argued that the sale came as a complete surprise to him, and that
he had a "mutual and binding commitment" with Angelina that neither one of them would sell
their shares to a third party without the other's consent.
Umm yeah, just how “legally binding,” though?
According to the documents, Angelina asked the court to lift temporary restraining orders
that had been issued as part of her divorce proceedings with Brad back in July so that
she could sell her interest to an unnamed buyer—to which Brad agreed to being lifted,
though he noted that by doing so, he was "not consenting" to any sale of her shares in the
winery.
The lawsuit also states that while Brad made "significant financial investments" into turning
the estate into a successful business, Angelina, on the other hand…allegedly had nothing
to do with it.
The court papers state that by 2013, Angelia had “stopped contributing altogether”
for the winery’s renovations, while Brad continued to invest millions in the estate.
Basically, Brad’s argument is that he did not agree to the sale of Angelina’s interest
in the company, and wants to void the sale of her shares, as well as monetary damages
and legal fees.
Yep, things can sure get messy when mixing your personal life with your professional
endeavors, and it seems like this latest issue between Brad and Angelina might get pretty
intense.
But in Angelina’s defense, the suit alleges she did give Brad a heads up that she was
planning on selling her shares in writing, informing her ex husband that she had reached
a “painful decision, with a heavy heart’” last year.
Brad began negotiations to buy out Angelina’s share after she revealed she could “no longer
maintain any ownership position in an alcohol-based business given her personal objections,”
but clearly, those negotiations…didn’t work out in the long run.
For now, we’re just hoping that Angelina and Brad can settle this issue quickly and
quietly without getting involved in some big-time courtroom drama, and hope they can come to
a resolution.
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