Angelina Jolie’s Lawyers Call Brad Pitt’s NDA Request ‘Abusive’ in Winery Case
The winery dispute enters its third year.
Angelina Jolie is contesting Brad Pitt’s request for NDAs in their yearslong winery dispute, “Page Six” reported on April 26. Lawyers for Jolie are calling Pitt’s motion to obtain Jolie’s NDAs from any third parties an invasion of privacy, an attempt to silence her, and even “abusive.” Attorneys for Pitt asked L.A. Superior Court to disclose the NDAs and other sensitive information earlier this month in an apparent effort to shed light on whether his NDA request was “the deal-ender [Jolie] subsequently alleged it to be” when selling her vineyard shares to a Russian oligarch instead. Pitt first sued Jolie over the sale of their $500 million winery, Château Miraval, in 2022.
Jolie’s attorneys previously claimed Pitt wanted her to sign an “onerous” and “expansive” NDA that would “cover Pitt’s personal misconduct whether related to Miraval or not,” including the abuse allegations related to an incident on a plane in 2016, in order for Jolie to agree to sell her stake in Miraval to Pitt. When the deal fell apart over the matter, she sold her shares elsewhere.
“By their nature, Pitt’s Requests seek to intrude on Jolie’s privacy,” says Jolie’s new filing, per “Page Six.” “The Requests seek contracts between Jolie (or any of her entities) and any other person or entity. Most, if not all, of these agreements will be employment-related contracts that include Jolie’s compensation or compensation she paid to third parties.” Jolie’s lawyers added, “Forcing Jolie to spend the time and expense of gathering and producing all of this documentation is expensive, wasteful, and unreasonable — and the latest manifestation of Pitt’s abusive conduct toward Jolie. The Court should not allow it.”
Brangelina first purchased the famed, 1,200-acre vineyard in 2008 and were married in the Châtaeu’s chapel six years later. The couple divorced in 2019. The dispute over the property brought abuse allegations against Pitt back into headlines, wherein filings detail the physical abuse Jolie and their children faced on a plane in 2016.
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