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Words by Isobel Lewis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/imago61519721-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”BAFTA Film Awards 2014 – London Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arriving for the 2014 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”107px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Ever since Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016, the former couple have been embroiled in a number of high-profile, messy legal battles over child custody, their businesses, and their many properties. And it looks like there\u2019s no chance of things slowing down, as reports over the weekend claimed that Brad is refusing to drop the lawsuit against his ex-wife, despite her public pleas for the actor to \u2018end the fighting\u2019.<\/p>\n This comment, and the majority of Brad and Angelina\u2019s legal problems, pertain to a lengthy lawsuit over Chateau Miraval, the French winery they purchased in 2008. Both actors owned a 50 per cent share in the property and its wine-making enterprise. In the aftermath of her divorce from Brad, Angelina sold her shares in the vineyard to a wine group for $67 million. One year later, Brad filed a lawsuit against her, claiming that in selling the winery without his permission, Angelina had gone against a previous verbal agreement they made. He sued on a number of grounds, asking for damages and the sale to be reversed.<\/p>\n At the time, Angelina\u2019s lawyers claimed that she had refused to let Brad buy her shares because she wasn\u2019t willing to sign an \u2018expansive\u2019 non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Last week, however, Angelina\u2019s legal team, led by lawyer Paul Murphy, called on Brad to \u2018end the fighting\u2019 around the lawsuit. They claimed that Brad had \u2018control of all the properties the couple shared as well as control of the business\u2019, yet still \u2018demands more\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018In doing so, Pitt placed squarely at issue why he tried to punish and control Angelina by demanding a newly expanded NDA to cover his personal misconduct and abuse. Those actions are central to these proceedings. We are not at all surprised Mr Pitt is afraid to turn over the documents demonstrating these facts,\u2019 Murphy said. \u2018While Angelina again asks Mr Pitt to end the fighting and finally put their family on a clear path toward healing, unless Mr Pitt withdraws his lawsuit, Angelina has no choice but to obtain the evidence necessary to prove his allegations wrong.\u2019<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_padding=”1px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”97.6%” custom_padding=”|||0px||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n However, it seems that Brad won\u2019t be allowing Angelina the time to \u2018heal\u2019 she allegedly needs. Over the weekend, insiders told The Daily Mail that Brad had \u2018no intention\u2019 of dropping the case. According to them, her comments came after realising her legal case was less strong than she thought. \u2018Brad is not going to drop this lawsuit \u2013 why would he? This was a very standard business dispute but unfortunately, Angelina has consistently introduced personal elements that are meant for a divorce court,\u2019 they said, while alleging that the winery would have been the inheritance for the six children the pair share: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, Knox, 16, Vivienne, 16.<\/p>\n Their source added, \u2018Angelina is asking him to put an end to the fighting as if she is a peacemaker. This is nothing more than to paint herself as the victim. Bringing very personal issues into a business lawsuit is backfiring on her. It has exposed the weaknesses in her case and has complicated matters for both parties. She didn\u2019t need to do this.\u2019<\/p>\n Grazia\u2019s source adds that the legal stalemate the former couple is currently living through is emotionally charged as much as it is financial. \u2018Brad and Angelina have been at a standoff over this case for longer than anyone can remember. The issue they have at this point, besides their intense loathing and resentment towards one another, is that they\u2019re too far down the road with litigation to just call a truce and let matters drop without resolving anything – they are already incurring an enormous amount of cost on both sides,\u2019 says Grazia\u2019s source. \u2018It\u2019s a matter of principle to each of them that they see this through and prove their innocence, especially with so much at stake.\u2019<\/p>\n Many bombshell revelations have arisen during the Miraval case. Back in 2022, in a cross complaint pertaining to the winery, Angelina claimed that Brad was physically and emotionally abusive towards her and their children on a private plane in 2016, in an extended outburst that led to the end of their marriage. It was alleged that Brad \u2018choked one of the children and struck another in the face\u2019 and \u2018grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her\u2019. At the time, his divorce lawyer said that Brad accepted responsibility for some things in his past, but not things he didn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n Things took an even darker turn in April of this year, when Angelina\u2019s lawyers claimed in court documents, once again relating to the winery lawsuit, that Pitt had a history of physical abuse towards her tracking back before the 2016 incident. According to the lawyers, this alleged incident marked the first time he had turned on the children, and Angelina filed for divorce days later.<\/p>\n Brad\u2019s reported refusal to back down in his legal case comes months after Shiloh turned 18 and immediately took legal action to officially distance herself from her father. Zahara, Pax and Maddox are said to have all already dropped Pitt from their double-barrelled surname, but Shiloh is the first to do so officially. A source has told Grazia that Jolie remains close to all her children, with their loyalty meaning \u2018everything to her\u2019 following the tricky period that has followed her divorce from Brad.<\/p>\n IMAGE CREDIT: IMAGO<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Angelina begs Brad to ‘end the fighting’ – But Insiders say he simply won’t back downWords by Isobel LewisEver since Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016, the former couple have been embroiled in a number of high-profile, messy legal battles over child custody, their businesses, and their many properties. And it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2018Angelina again asks Mr Pitt to end the fighting and finally put their family on a clear path toward healing\u2019<\/h2>\n