A new lawsuit joins the legal battle of ‘Brangelina’. Brad Pitt (58) has filed a lawsuit against Angelina Jolie (46) for a business transaction she carried out with Chateau Miraval, the winery in Correns (France) that they had bought as a couple and of which she later sold her share to the Russian oligarch, Yuri Shefler. What a ruckus!
The actor, in legal documents, asks the court to annul a pact that Jolie, 46, made to deliver her share to the subsidiary of the Stoli Group, Tenute del Mondo, which Shefler directs, and award her compensation for damages. in connection with the transaction.
The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles on Thursday. There Pitt argued that Jolie broke their agreement not to sell her interest in Chateau Miraval without the other’s consent.
The actor couple Oscar winners had in 2008 bought a majority stake in Miraval, which is located in the town of Correns, in southeastern France, between Marseille and Nice. They got married there in 2014.
Pitt, 58, said he had “put down money and sweat” to build Miraval into one of the world’s most renowned rosé winemakers, with annual revenues exceeding $50 million, according to the suit.
The actor accused Jolie, 46, of seeking “exceptional unearned profit” from her work, while inflicting “gratuitous damages” on him.
Jolie’s attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.
According to the demand, Jolie told Pitt in January 2021 that she had made the “painful, heavy-hearted decision” to sell her stake in Miraval, and that she could not continue to own an alcohol-based business due to her personal objections.
Talks between Pitt and Jolie to buy out the stake collapsed five months later, according to the lawsuit.
Tenute del Mondo, a unit of the private company Stoli, announced the purchase of Jolie’s stake in October.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for breach of contract and other legal claims.
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016 and their divorce became final in 2019. They have six children.
Pitt won Academy Awards in 2014 for helping produce the best picture winner “12 Years a Slave” and in 2020 for best supporting actor in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Jolie won an Oscar in 2000 for best supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted.
Source: Eluniverso
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