November 28, 2024 07:50 AM IST
A new report suggests that the legal battle between ex Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is slowing down.
The legal battle between ex Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is getting more suspicious. A new report reveals court documents that Brad has now accused Angelina of lying and hiding key information about the controversial sale of their $500 million French winery. ,Also read: Brad Pitt ‘on his knees begging Angelina Jolie to let him see kids’: ‘It hurts him that he’s separated’,
Brad’s allegations against Angelina
Accessed Documents weekly in touch Show Brad’s legal team accuses Angelina of withholding ‘hundreds of emails’ to suppress the truth. “In a last ditch effort to suppress the truth about his mis-selling to the Stoli parties, [Angelina] Hundreds of emails he exchanged with his inner circle in the period before the sale have been withheld over claims of attorney-client privilege. But 126 of those emails are entirely between non-lawyers. The production of these 126 communications should be ordered,” said the petition filed by Brad in the case.
The couple jointly purchased a related French winery – Château Miraval. However, Brad claims that it was sold to a third party without his knowledge and consent shortly after their divorce in 2016. The couple has been fighting the issue in court for years.
In the docs, Brad’s legal team claims Angelina prepared some of the documents after ‘working hard for over a year’, but calls it ‘confusing’ as they ‘did only one document discussing or reflecting on the sale. Have prepared internal communication.
The legal team says, “[Angelina] Claims that all other internal communications from his team on this topic are protected by attorney/client privilege. This includes hundreds of emails sent to or from non-lawyers such as his business manager Terry Bird, his image consultants Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, his wine consultant Christophe Selin, his finance advisors Marjorie Brebet-Friel and James Friel and his personal assistants . Michael Vieira and Mindy Kniby. 126 of these communications did not involve any attorney participants. [Angelina’s] The wildly broad claim of privilege over these 126 communications is not supported by law, and cannot justify the almost complete concealment of this critically important discovery.
what is the dispute about
After Brad and Angelina split in 2016, she emailed him that she wanted out of the winery business. Brad said his team negotiated a deal to buy his stake, offering to pay him $54.4 million over six years. However, she claims she backed out of negotiations with him and he sold his stake to Russian billionaire Yuri Scheffler, receiving $64 million from the deal. Brad has urged the court to void the deal.
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