Towards the end of 2025, there was a minor flurry of activity around Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s years-long legal dispute regarding Chateau Miraval. Years ago, Angelina sold her half of Miraval to a Stoli subsidiary, and consequently, Brad Pitt has thrown a huge tantrum over that sale ever since. He sued Angelina, she countersued, Miraval was raided by the French authorities, Tenute del Mondo’s lawyers are taking Pitt to the woodshed and on and on. Well, last December, Pitt “scored a legal victory,” at least that’s how his team framed it ad nauseum. The “victory” was that the court is forcing Angelina to turn over her communications around the sale of Nouvel (her half of Miraval). The communications include Angelina discussing her lawyers’ legal advice with her business manager and at least one friend/advisor. While I genuinely believe that there’s nothing incriminating in those communications, Angelina really fought to keep them private, citing privileged communications (because there were discussions of what her lawyers said to her). Angelina’s lawyer said they would appeal Pitt’s “legal victory.” Well, check out this item included in a recent Puck newsletter:

Keep the Miraval rosé on ice: It’s been a decade since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split, but somehow, the litigation over their vineyard in Provence, Château Miraval, is still going strong.

As you may recall, Pitt sued Jolie back in 2022 for selling her interest in the vineyard to Stoli vodka billionaire Yuri Shefler without consulting him, or even giving him an agreed-on right of refusal. Jolie argued that the sweeping, expanded N.D.A. that Pitt had insisted on for a mutually agreeable deal would have unfairly muzzled her from ever speaking out about the abuse
she alleges to have suffered during their marriage.

The case is technically on track for a February 2027 trial, but Jolie is asking California’s Second District to weigh in on a sleeper issue with potentially broader legal implications: whether a client’s emails with non-lawyers—business managers, financial advisors, even foreign policy experts—can be shielded under attorney-client privilege. At issue are 22 emails and texts Jolie sent around the time of the Stoli deal.

The trial judge, calling the documents “business gossip,” wants Jolie to turn them over. Jolie says they’re privileged since they involve discussions of legal advice, and her team is urging the appellate court to clarify what counts as privileged communication—a potentially complicated question in the high-profile legal fight between parties who employ their own public policy consultants. For now, the appeals court has stayed the case and asked Pitt to weigh in.

[From Puck]

Given the framing, I absolutely believe that Pitt’s people pushed this item to Puck, especially this: “Pitt sued Jolie back in 2022 for selling her interest in the vineyard to Stoli vodka billionaire Yuri Shefler without consulting him, or even giving him an agreed-on right of refusal.” It should be “allegedly agreed-on right of refusal.” I also believe this is coming from Team Pitt because there’s no mention of which communications Pitt is trying to get tossed out, like all of those messages where he’s talking about cutting Angelina out of Miraval’s business and where he’s openly discussing Angelina’s plans to sell Nouvel (weird since he’s continuously claimed to be blind-sided by the sale). As for Angelina’s appeal… my theory is that this is simply Jolie’s line in the sand. Like, she’s just f–king furious that Brad wants all of her emails to her business manager and her friend.

Incidentally, I haven’t said anything about Brad’s dumb Fast Cars Go Vroom Vroom movie getting Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. It’s pathetic, honestly. I hate that Hollywood is still down with Brad, even after so much of his bullsh-t has been exposed.

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