Brad Pitt accuses Angelina Jolie of illegal vineyard sale

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were once considered among the most beautiful couples in show business, never lacking attention. However, their divorce skirmishes and emerging scandals have made even bigger headlines. The former lovers have fought over custody of their children and their assets.

2008, the celebrity couple acquired the multimillion-dollar French estate Chateau Miraval with its vineyard. Problems began when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt decided to divorce. Initially, the actress wanted to keep 38% of the shares. Still, after the court established joint custody of the children—later granted solely to Jolie—she took things further and tarnished her former partner's reputation.

The former spouses allegedly promised each other not to sell their shares in the vineyard without the other's consent. For this reason, Brad Pitt's business partners offered to buy Angelina Jolie's shares (50% for $50 million), but she did not agree to the proposal out of spite. She allegedly sold them to Stoli, a company owned by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler, and claimed she did not violate the agreement. According to inTouch, Angelina Jolie, through her own company, filed a $350 million lawsuit against Brad Pitt for improper use of assets.

Both cases relating to the vineyard are ongoing. The actor believes that the claims filed by his ex aren't necessarily meant to address the vineyard issue. This includes materials related to the divorce and an incident on a plane. The lawyer has spoken out.

"To avoid unnecessary motion practice and another public filing rife with personal attacks, Pitt voluntarily offered to produce documents sufficient to show everything that occurred on the flight that precipitated the ex-couple’s divorce", his lawyer explained.

According to the actor's lawyer, Angelina Jolie is publicly using the resolution of business matters to air their dirty laundry.

"If Jolie’s Requests were really about 'what happened on that plane' as she claims Pitt’s offer should have sufficed. Jolie, however, rejected Pitt’s compromise and moved to compel his communications with third parties—including his most trusted advisors—about such sensitive issues as the therapy he voluntarily undertook after the flight incident in an effort to better himself, 'drug and alcohol testing' he has allegedly undergone, his alleged 'overuse or abuse of alcohol,' and other actions taken in the aftermath of the flight. These private, third-party communications are far removed from the issues and allegations in this case, and in many cases, they have nothing but the most tenuous relationship to ‘what happened on that plane.’ Jolie, however, wants them anyway as part of her efforts to turn this business dispute into a re-litigation of the former couple’s divorce case", the lawyer concluded.