Inside the French winery at the heart of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's bitter divorce

Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are inactive astatine warfare with each different arsenic they caput to tribunal to settee a suit implicit their French winery that they purchased together

Former mates Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are battling each different successful tribunal erstwhile again as they effort to settee a $250m suit implicit their French winery.

The exes' long-running ineligible battle implicit their winery has headed to proceedings pursuing their divorcement successful 2019, which rapidly led to a warfare implicit their assets. Angelina and Brad's French vineyard Chateau Miraval Winery has played a important relation successful the proceedings. Their estate, which produces award-winning sparkling rosé, acceptable the erstwhile mates backmost astir 25 cardinal euros (£21.3million).

At the extremity of 2024, the erstwhile mates finally reached an agreement successful their vicious eight-year divorce. Jolie’s lawyer said the Maria histrion has been near “exhausted” aft the long-running conflict implicit their ­children and £319m fortune. Jolie and Pitt were Hollywood’s astir celebrated A-list for 12 years, 2 of them arsenic a joined couple.

The Oscar winners person six ­children together. Jolie filed for divorcement successful 2016 aft a backstage pitchy formation from Europe during which she said Pitt was abusive towards her and their children. The couple’s usage of the backstage justice – an progressively communal determination among splitting celebrities– has kept the proceedings and details of the divorcement mostly nether wraps.

Some elements of their disputes, however, person been revealed done a abstracted suit filed by Pitt over Jolie’s merchantability of her fractional of a French winery the 2 owned together. The mates joined astatine their property successful Correns successful 2014, yet pursuing their divided Jolie has filed motions to disregard claims that Pitt made against her.

It is implicit a verbal statement implicit their 50-50 ownership of the vineyard. She has argued that the statement had been nullified aft Pitt requested she signed an NDA regarding their marriage. Jolie whitethorn person violated the statement erstwhile she sold her shares of the chateau to Stoli Group, a Luxembourg-based spirits shaper successful 2021. The institution is owned by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler.

Pitt's lawyers person said Jolie violated the woody to not merchantability their respective stakes without some parties' permission. The erstwhile mates are acceptable to look each different successful tribunal this week, yet are not expected to beryllium present. Their combat has been dubbed “The War of the Rosés”.

Since their separation, three of their six children person dropped their dad's past name. It was reported successful 2023 that their eldest girl Zahara, 19, had got escaped of Pitt from her name, aft introducing herself arsenic "Zahara Jolie" erstwhile she arrived astatine a sorority astatine Spelman College successful Atlanta, Georgia.

It has since been said that Vivienne, who is the youngest daughter, calved with her duplicate member Knox backmost successful 2008, has besides decided to travel suit. In May it was reported that their girl Shiloh would besides beryllium the aforesaid upon her 18th birthday, which she did. According to a root adjacent to the 60-year-old Babylon star, helium sees his daughter’s beingness determination as different denotation helium has "lost his children."

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