Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, at one point, were Hollywood’s favorite couple. When the news of their divorce hit, people were devastated. Now, the couple is embroiled in a nasty legal battle.
Keep reading to know all the details of what their legal battle currently looks like.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are locked in a legal battle over Miraval, their estate in the south of France, which produces the namesake successful wines as well. The couple bought the property in 2008, just before the birth of their twins Knox and Vivienne.
It also served as the site for their wedding in 2014, upon which Pitt gifted Jolie 10% of his stake in the property and wine-making ventures; making the two of them 50/50 owners.
“Miraval was a love letter to his wife and his children, providing a beautiful life for Angelina and the kids and shielding them from the intense pressures of celebrity,” said Frank Pollaro, a furniture designer who helped Pitt with his initial interest in winemaking.
Now as the couple’s relationship and subsequent legal battles have turned sour, so has the fight over Miraval. When the two of them were going into business together, Jolie’s business manager suggested a doomsday clause where if the couple were to split, the other buy the share in the property. The two of them rejected this clause, thinking the day would never come.
According to a cross-complaint by Jolie, Pitt at the time had said it “wasn’t necessary for two reasonable people.” Pitt later claimed the couple had vowed to not sell their share in Miraval without the other’s consent, but Jolie denies this claim.
On January 21, 2021, Angelina Jolie emailed Brad Pitt, an email which has since then made public. In the email, she mentions that she writes “with a heavy heart.” She informs Pitt of her decision to sell Miraval, “a business that is centered around alcohol.” This is perhaps a reference to the now infamous plane event where an intoxicated Pitt “choked” one of their children and then “struck another in the face” before he poured alcohol on her and the children.