Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of abusive history prior to 2016

The legal dispute between Angelina Jolie It is Brad Pitt over the French winery they owned together is reigniting older conflicts: new legal documents allege a “history of physical abuse against Jolie” by the actor prior to the fateful plane trip in 2016.

On Thursday (4), Jolie filed a motion with the Los Angeles Superior Court, of which the CNN obtained a copy, in which she states that she tried to sell Brad Pitt her stake in the Miraval winery and that the negotiations failed after Pitt conditioned the sale on the signing of a confidentiality agreement that “prohibited Jolie from speaking (except in court) about the Pitt’s abuse of Jolie and her children by trying to link Pitt’s personal reputation to Miraval’s business.”

This week’s new filing stems from Pitt’s 2022 lawsuit, in which he alleged that he and Jolie had an agreement in which neither would sell their stake in the winery without the other’s consent. In a June 2023 filing, he alleged that Jolie’s sale of her stake in the winery was “vindictive” following an “adverse custody decision.”

The actress’ defense also states in this Thursday’s lawsuit that Pitt’s “history of physical abuse against Jolie began well before the family’s plane trip in September 2016 from France to Los Angeles”, but does not go into further detail about the alleged previous abuse.

On this plane trip in 2016, according to documents presented by Jolie’s defense in 2022, Pitt allegedly “grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her” before “pushing her against the bathroom wall.” The actor also allegedly “hanged one of the children and hit another in the face,” the document alleges.

“At trial, Jolie will prove through depositions, emails, photographs and other evidence why Pitt was so concerned about his own misconduct that he destroyed his own deal to buy Jolie’s stake in Miraval because she refused to agree to its new confidentiality agreement”, says the process.

Jolie claims in Thursday’s filing that she agreed to sign a confidentiality agreement that was “limited to not disparaging Miraval’s wine business” as part of the initial agreement to sell Pitt its stake in the winery, which they were close to finalizing. in season.

Pitt had previously stated in his June 2023 complaint that after Jolie did not agree to sign her non-disclosure agreement, she proposed an even broader settlement in which “except in court allegations or testimony, neither party should directly or through the representatives, make any derogatory comment about the other party in a public forum.”

CNN has reached out to a representative for Brad Pitt to comment on the new allegations described in this Thursday’s lawsuit, but still no response.

“Mr Pitt refused to buy out Ms Jolie if she was not silenced by her confidentiality agreement. By refusing to buy out her stake but then suing her, Mr. Pitt directly called into question why that term was so important to him and what he hoped would be buried: the abuse Ms. Jolie suffered.” Angelina Jolie’s lawyer Paul Murphy told CNN in a Thursday statement.

“After eight months of delays, this motion asks the Court to force Mr. Pitt to finally present this evidence,” the statement added.

Jolie never pressed charges against Pitt regarding the private plane incident in 2016, according to the lawsuit, because she believed “the best course of action was for Pitt to accept his responsibility and help the family recover from the post-traumatic stress disorder he caused.” ”.

Pitt was not arrested or charged for the 2016 incident after the FBI completed its investigation. And a representative for the actor disputed Jolie’s account of that incident included in the lawsuit in October 2022.

Pitt’s rep said in a statement to CNN at the time that “Brad accepted responsibility for what he did, but he won’t accept being held responsible for things he didn’t do.”

In October 2021, Jolie sold her half of the winery to Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary of the Stoli Group, controlled by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler.

The ongoing legal proceedings and “Pitt’s unyielding attempts to control and punish Jolie continue to take an enormous emotional and financial toll on her and her family,” the suit says. “Jolie wants her family to be able to heal and for her children to be spared further pain and trauma, and she really wants Pitt to want the same.”

Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016. They were declared legally single in 2019 and a shared custody agreement for their children was established in 2021.

Legal proceedings relating to the Miraval dispute remain ongoing. The former couple purchased the rural property and winery in the south of France in 2008.

*With information from CNN Brasil

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