After the scandal of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, the public’s appetite is now focused on what was the marriage of two other great Hollywood stars. Angelina Jolie has detailed this Tuesday in a lawsuit the accusations of abuse against her ex-husband, Brad Pitt. The actress and director has revealed in the Los Angeles courts an episode that occurred aboard a private plane in September 2016, which was transporting the clan back to California from France, where the couple owned a vineyard of almost 500 hectares whose control is the center of the judicial dispute. “Pitt grabbed one of the boys by the neck and slapped another in the face” and “grabbed Jolie by the head while shaking her,” the document states, which also states that the Fight Club star threw beer and wine on the kids and his wife.
Pitt and Jolie separated in 2016, days after these events occurred. The incident began when the actor and producer accused his then-wife of being too considerate of minors. They began to shout at each other in the bathroom of the aircraft. It was there that he grabbed Jolie by her head and shoulders to shake her and push her against the bathroom wall. “Pitt then hit the roof of the plane repeatedly, causing Jolie to jump out of the bathroom,” says the lawsuit, which has been filed in response to a lawsuit brought by Pitt late last year over vineyards They became the setting for their wedding. One of the six children, who is not identified in the documents, came to his mother’s defense. The actor pounced on him and seconds later he strangled one and hit another,
The couple has since embarked on a bitter divorce proceeding after 12 years of relationship and a custody battle over their six children. At the center of the fight between the former marriage is the Château Miraval, a mansion in the town of Correns, in the heart of the French Côte d’Azur that has a long history with the entertainment world. There Pink Floyd recorded some cuts for The Wall. AC/DC, Sting and Muse have also used it as a recording location. Brangelina, as the couple was known, began buying shares of the vineyard in 2008. In 2011, they closed the deal for $60 million. They added the company, which produces Miraval organic rosé, to the estate with the idea of ​​inheriting it to their six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, whose ages today vary between 21 and 15 years. The luxurious residence
Pitt’s lawyers complain that Jolie sold her share of the company in October 2021 for $164 million. This, the actor argues, violates the couple’s agreements, which had agreed that neither could sell his part if the other did not give the green light to the operation. She closed the sale late last year with Tenute del Mondo, a company that is part of Stoli, the giant spirits consortium owned by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler.
Jolie now reveals the details of abuse in response to the lawsuit filed by Pitt. Her defense assures that she sold her shares, through her Nouvel company, only when her ex-husband demanded the negotiation of a confidentiality clause. Her lawsuit claims that the alleged mistreatment on the private plane was investigated by an FBI agent. He concluded in a report “that the Government had probable cause to charge Pitt with federal crimes for his conduct that day.” The FBI closed the case in November 2016.
The New York Times has verified the existence of the report, which was brought before a federal prosecutor. “The parties agreed that criminal charges would not be pursued in this case due to various factors,” says the document from the federal investigative agency, which was published in August in several tabloid publications, and which is now included in demand censored and crossed out. This makes it unclear whether or not it includes whether or not Pitt hit his children. The text prepared by the agent affirms that Jolie was in conflict if she should continue with the accusation or not, largely as a way to protect her children in an explosive case for public opinion.
The Miraval castle is a residence with 35 rooms in its main building, although the property has several structures from the 17th century. Among its amenities are a spa, gym, a couple of swimming pools, a private cinema, a room to play video games, a track for mountain biking and a heliport. In 2010, Pitt and Jolie had a 200-year-old olive tree transplanted into one of the most important parts of the garden, where Saint Thomas Aquinas is believed to have spent several days in 1252. A thousand years later it is the site of a bitter fight between two idols of Hollywood.
