Brad Pitt “scored a legal victory” recently, at least that’s what his crisis-management publicists want people to believe. The (pyrrhic) victory was that a court said that Angelina Jolie had to turn over certain communications between herself and her business managers and legal team. Jolie argued that all of these communications were privileged, but the judge said no, the emails and texts are not privileged. She will appeal, and her lawyer sounded disgusted by Pitt’s latest bullsh-t. Speaking of revealing communications, Pitt has claimed for years that Angelina sold her half of Chateau Miraval without his knowledge, without giving him a heads up, and that she was wrong to sell because Miraval is their children’s inheritance. Angelina has stated her reasons for selling repeatedly: that she did not want to be legally and financially tied to the man who abused and terrorized her and her children in 2016; that she did not want to be in the alcohol business any longer, because it brought up memories of Brad’s alcohol-fueled abuse; and that she had felt for years that Brad was mismanaging her investment in Miraval. Now Brad’s lawyers are trying to get Brad’s communications thrown out of court because they reveal that Brad was purposefully keeping Angelina in the dark about his business decisions related to Miraval.
Brad Pitt asked a judge to toss all claims accusing him of embezzlement as part of his bitter court battle over a French winery, Chateau Miraval, with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, Us Weekly can exclusively report. On Monday, December 22, Pitt, 62, filed court docs that addressed the claims he and his business improperly used Miraval’s money for vanity projects, including $8 million spent on a home on the estate and building a swimming pool.
Pitt told the court that any expenses made by Miraval were disclosed and never kept a secret. He also addressed a message he sent his associates, as part of a conversation about Miraval building a music studio, that read, “I believe we should no longer send [Jolie] reports as she is trying to shop her shares.” He said his message is not evidence of a crime or embezzlement.
Pitt noted, “The message is framed as a personal view or observation, not an instruction, and reflects no intent to advance or facilitate any unlawful conduct.” He said there has been no suggestion that he was under any obligation to share the report in question with Jolie, 50.
His lawyer continued, “Nor does the message indicate any attempt or intent by [Pitt] to conceal stolen property from Jolie. Such a claim is nonsensical, given the public nature of the music studio and its association with [Miraval].”
Pitt argued that the alleged embezzlement claims filed against him should be heard in France, not California, since the alleged conduct happened in France. The F1 actor is demanding that all claims against him be thrown out of court.
Jolie ended up selling her shares to an alcohol company named Stoli. Pitt sued his ex to void the deal, claiming she needed his approval, which she denied. Stoli joined the lawsuit and filed a countersuit against Pitt in 2024. The company claimed that Pitt and his team, instead of paying out Miraval’s profits to them, diverted the money to fund side businesses “and used them to fund a series of wasteful vanity projects that benefited him personally.”
Mirval’s profits grew to around $15 million in 2022, the suit said. Stoli claimed “not a penny of the [tens] of millions of euros” that Miraval has earned over the years has ever been used to repay its loans. “Instead, Pitt uses the company’s funds as his own personal pocket money to indulge his wasteful spending and to benefit his business ventures.” The company said that over the years, Jolie had loaned Miraval $20 million to fund improvements.
“Pitt has caused Chateau Miraval to spend tens of millions of dollars on vanity projects that have little, if any, business justification,” Stoli’s lawyer argued. “Following the divorce filing, only Pitt has stayed at the manor house owned by Chateau Miraval and enjoyed the benefits of a personal lease on the property — Jolie never returned there.” Stoli said after Pitt and Jolie split, Pitt took over control of Miraval. The suit added, “Chateau Miraval has never distributed any of the business’ profits to its shareholders. Never.”
Stoli said Jolie noticed that Miraval was “spending large sums of money on projects that did not appear to have a legitimate business purpose. She began to insist on receiving information about Chateau Miraval’s finances and sought to exercise greater supervision over its business,” the countersuit alleged. “Pitt frequently resisted her requests and, over time, shut her out of the business, and deprived her of information about Chateau Miraval’s finances.”
Stoli claimed Pitt approved spending and budgets without Jolie’s approval. To support this claim, the company pointed to the alleged message Pitt sent in June 2021, which read, “I believe we should no longer send AJ reports as she is trying to shop her shares.”
A source tells Us, “It’s not surprising that after another favorable decision for Brad, these parties would proceed with another frivolous filing. Unfortunately, this is to be expected from the types of people she chose to go into business with.”
As much as Brad and his team want to make this about “Brad vs. Angelina,” other people are involved in the lawsuits and legal actions around Miraval. While Stoli has corporate issues, that makes them even more eager to get their money’s worth out of Miraval. There seems to be a great deal of evidence that Pitt has, at the very least, financially mismanaged Miraval. The issues Stoli has raised are tax issues for the French government as well – you can’t just run a vineyard and pocket all of the profits. And it’s wild that Pitt’s lawyers are trying to get this super-incriminating communication thrown out of court too – it not only shows Pitt’s willingness to cut Angelina out of the business, but it also shows that he was well aware that she wanted to get her investment out of Miraval (which actually contradicts Pitt’s previous claims about being blind-sided by Jolie’s sale).
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Watch out, Brad. Your character, or lack there of, is showing on your face.
Such a gross lack of charcter by an alcoholic who used his alcholic buisness to punish his wife and six minor children who were left physically, mentally and financially abused and traumatised
An abuser, delinquent father and a thief. He hit the trifecta.
The way BP has been abusing Angelina for years — not only as a raging alcoholic mentally and physically harming her and the kids, but also financially — is out there in the open for everyone to see.
And still people go out of their way to cast him (looking at you, F1) and/or do business with him.
Typical *men*tality, not surprising us women.
I will never forgive Lewis Hamilton and F1 gave a wife beating children strangling domestic violence perpetrator Brad Pitt another platform to ve idolised. Nothing repulses me more than abuser aplogist enablers who keep giving this man a pass to carry on abusing Angelina Jolie and his children.
Yes, he has definitely lost the looks that made him marketable and popular in the first place. The funny thing is that he still thinks he’s the hottest thing on the block. Open your eyes, man. This is what actresses experience in their thirties and certainly by 40. Brad is over 60 and is still vain about his lost looks. Boo hoo. And his constant harassment of Angelina is despicable.
So he knew he wanted to sell her shares. But just bc someone wants to sell their shares, why could they still not get information about shares they still then legally owned, especially if they wanted to sell? Shady.
Freudian slip? ” Unfortunately, this is to be expected from the types of people she chose to go into business with.”
She made a one time deal with Stoli to wash her hands of this whole thing and gain more separation from her abuser.
The only one in this whole situation she went into business with is Pitt.
As a recovering alcoholic he should be trying to sell Miraval instead of using it to financially abuse Angelina.
He stopped drinking for a few months during the custody battle. And then, when he lost, he no longer had to be sober. You can see from his face that it’s swollen and not just from the injections.
I physically recoil when I see this abuser’s face or hear the blerghhh coming out of his mouth
ICKKKKKKKKK
Shocked, shocked that a man who would cheat on his wife would cheat his wife.
Utterly disgusted how Brad Pitt used one face for public and another for private, his court documents & his lawyers abusive language towards Angelina jolie speaks volums how he’d been financially abusing her and the children. He blocked her out of the buisness with his corrupt French buisness partners to whom Pitt gave free shares to so that he could cut Angelina jolie out.
Brad Pitt an alcoholic fighting for alcholic buisness, but not fighting for his 6 children he abused, he’s not named a single product after those children whom he lies to media that Miraval is their legacy, yet he has everything in his name only and his French buisness partners. He’s looted Angelina Jolie and his children, such a morally corrupt man with no ethical traits.
This alcoholic domestic violence perpetrator Brad Pitt makes me recoil in disgust how he’s treated the mother of his children and them with such little disregard. I’m glad Yuri Shefler is suing Brad Pitt for 350 Million for doung unethical buisness practices ..
Pitt still owed Angelina Jolie years of profits he stile from her and blocked her out of the business, he continues his legal abuse of her and his hired media outlets keep spreading defamatory smear campaigns against Angelina Jolie and her children whilst protecting this wife beater children abuser Brad Pitt
Nothing is more repulsive than Brad pitt and his Harvey Weinstein’s publicist he’s hired to still use. Trash media outlets People Magazine, Us Weekly, Daily Mail , TMZ , etc to maliciously abuse Angelina Jolie and her charcter, I wish she would sue him for Defamation. He’s such a repulsive man and I still don’t understand why people still admire this deadbeat father and wife beater…
The court documents actually show how blatantly Pitt lied about being blondsided, he used every trick to premeditatedly maliciously spreading defamatory smear campaigns against Angelina Jolie selling her legal buisness, court approved her sale and he knew it and was given first refusal which he backed out on when she refused to sign his NDA to cover his domestic violence and children abuse. He’s a coward and cheat who cheated his wife and children out of their house and buisness by violating her legal rights
So she was telling the turth that he really was making things difficult and keeping her in dark about the business. Let’s just add that to the many reasons the kids contuine to pay him dust.
There’s been a lawyer on tiktoker that’s been calling out his PR headlines on tiktok for twisting the court documents, and I love so many more people waking up on it!
“I believe we should no longer send AJ reports as she is trying to shop her shares.”
Goes to show how premeditatedly malicious Brad Pitt was towards Angelina Jolie, not only he took her investments millions he locked her out of any buisness practices & looted her . He’s normally corrupt man that was found guilty in French court for tax evasion . He’s obcessed with trying to destroy Angelina Jolie and her children for leaving his alcholic abusive toxic behaviours towards them
Once again the court documents and Brad Pitt’s emails to his mangers show how he was blocking Angelina Jolie out from her legally owned buisness, he purposely shut her out of everything, whilst lying through media acting like he was a victim, when in reality he fattened on her profits which he denied her and his own children.
Brad Pitt is a fraud and a liar whose legally abused his family and continues to gaslight them with lies and threats
I hate how media still protects this perpetrator of domestic violence Brad Pitt, they see how he’s used Miraval to financially abuse Angelina Jolie, and has the audacity to keep lying about the extreme lengths he’s used to abuse her in the buisness too. It’s good seeing peoole now see through his lies and post separation abuse of power he’s used against Angelina Jolie and his own children.
Brad Pitt continues to be unethical morally corrupt man who used his abuse of power to violate Angelina Jolie legal rights in her buisness by discrediting her & blocking her out of her buisness. It’s no wonder Angelina had no choice but to sell her home & buisness, especially when he and his buisness partners Perrins financially abused her out of her profits she has legal rights to.
Brad pitt resorting to embezzlement &
stealing from his own wife and six children and then acting like a victim and using them as media. Punchbags , whilst he Denys what was rightfully theirs, Brad Pitt clearly violated their hunan rights legal rights to their Buisness . I hope he’s found guilty and jailed
Once an abuser always an.abiser no matter how much PR protection Pitt has, no matter how he’s able to minipulate people the narrative from domestic violence to a hero , he still remains the perpetrator of domestic violence who left his wife and six minor children suffering trauma.
My heart breaks for Angelina jolie and her children who still are being abused legally by their Perpetrator
Don’t forget Brad Pitt’s fraudulent skincare is being sued he has a federal lawsuit in federal court , so his PR acting overtime to gaslight and drag Angelina.
This corrupt female judge should stop allowing this perpetrator of domestic violence to keep legally abusing his wife’s legal sale and read the extreme lengths Pitt went to have Angelina Jolie barred from her own buisness & it’s profits. Pitt clearly is morally ethically corrupt man who abused his wife and children and looted them
Brad pitt is soo unethical immoral man , classless scumbag looted his wife and children.
This man has zero class and zero integrity, no wonder 6 children still fear him and stay away from this deadbeat, a man whose used all passive aggressive methods to silence his wife & ghosted her out of her legal rights in her buisness.
Imagine looting your own children whilst not paying for any child maintenance since you abused them & cutting off any financial support they were entitled to via their mother’s buisness. This man needs to be rotting in hell the way he’s treated Angelina and her children
It’s no wonder Pitt’s been working nonstop lately. His lawsuit list is getting longer, not shorter (as is his lawyers’ list), and he still has to pay his hired girlfriend and her family. The money from the sale of his production company has probably already been spent. If this continues, he’ll have to work until he dies, leaving behind debts and far too many worthless films and coffee machine commercials.
Brad’s face is absolutely punchable. And his expression shows he thinks he’s all that and a bag of chips. Such swanning and narcissism.