It’s not all sunshine and rosé. The latest filing in Brad Pitt‘s ongoing lawsuit against Angelina Jolie regarding their winery has Pitt’s lawyers accusing the Oscar winner of contributing “nothing” to the brand and intentionally seeking to harm the business.In 2008, prior to their 2014 marriage, the A-list stars bought a controlling interest in Miraval, a French company that included an estate and vineyard in the south of France.“Pitt and Jolie purchased the château as a home to share with their children and the vineyard as a family business,” the June 3 filing states. “They agreed they would never sell their respective interests in Miraval without the other’s consent.
The couple spent the holidays at Miraval with their children and were married there in 2014.”The Ocean’s Eleven star, 58, started dating Jolie, 46, in 2005, after starring together in the spy thriller Mr. & Mrs.
Smith. In 2019, the former couple were both declared single three years after filing for divorce. The exes share Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 13.The lawsuit claims that the Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood actor helped make Miraval a “multimillion-dollar global business and one of the world’s most highly regarded producers of rosé wine” without any help from the Maleficent star.“Jolie, meanwhile, contributed nothing to Miraval’s success,” Pitt’s lawyers allege. “Instead, she allowed Pitt to pour money and sweat equity into the business in reliance on the consent right she owed him and a right of first refusal her business entity owed his.”In October 2021, Jolie sold her stake in Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, a company described in the suit as “a hostile third-party competitor bent on taking control of
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