Brad Pitt wants his day in court! Just in case you haven’t had your fill of celeb courtroom drama this year — like Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard, or Kim Kardashian‘s famous family facing off against Blac Chyna — Pitt is apparently trying to one-up everybody with his own attempt at legal recourse against ex-wife Angelina Jolie! Related: Brad Pitt Had To Stop Shia LaBeouf From Doing WHAT On Film Set?! We’ve been reporting on the 58-year-old star’s ongoing legal fight with the Maleficent actress over his beloved Château Miraval, a 1,000-acre vineyard in the South of France.
Earlier this week, the Seven actor’s legal team filed new court docs calling out Jolie for alleged vindictive business practices by selling her stake in the winery to Russian businessman Yuri Shefler.
The US Treasury Department claims Shefler is an “oligarch in the Russian Federation,” who owns vodka brand Stolichnaya and supposedly has had suspicious business dealings tied to Vladimir Putin‘s political regime.
In the deal with Jolie, Shefler allegedly used one of his competitor entities, Tenute del Mondo, to engage as a shady “hostile third-party competitor bent on taking control of Miraval,” per the court docs.
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