American actor Brad Pitt has accused his ex-wife, actress, Angelina Jolie, of damaging the reputation of the wine company they once co-owned by selling half of it to a “stranger”.
In the latest court filing in Pitt’s ongoing battle with Jolie over the sale of Miraval wine, 58-year-old Brad Pitt alleges that 47-year-old Angelina Jolie “willfully sought to harm him”, by selling her interests in the company. wine.
In his lawsuit, Pitt claims that he and Jolie agreed never to sell their interests in the family business, without obtaining the consent of the other party.
Back in 2008, the former couple, who share six children, bought a controlling stake in a vineyard in southern France and the home of Château Miraval, where they later married in 2014, and spent several family vacations together throughout their relationship.
Brad Pitt’s legal team wrote in documents filed last Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, and obtained by the American “People” magazine, that Miraval has become his “passionate” project that has grown “into a multi-million dollar global company, and one of the The world’s most respected wine producer” through his work, and that “Angelina Jolie has contributed nothing to the company’s success”.
In the lawsuit, Brad Pitt’s lawyers said that Angelina Jolie planned to sell her stake in the company last October to “Tenute del Mondo”, which “intends to take control of Miraval”, which is owned and indirectly controlled by the Russian billionaire. , Yuri Scheffler.
“Angelina Jolie secretly pursued the alleged sale, completed the alleged sale, willfully concealed Pitt, and willfully violated Pitt’s contractual rights,” reads the lawsuit from Brad Pitt’s legal team.
Brad Pitt is seeking damages “in the amount that will be proven at trial”, as well as declaring the alleged sale by Angelina Jolie to be “null”.