It’s a breakup that lasted almost as long as the relationship that preceded it.
Dubbed ‘the rosé war’, Angelina Jolie has now accused her ‘controlling’ ex Brad Pitt, 60, of ‘depleting her financially’, through the protracted legal battle over the winery that has dogged the couple since their separation in 2016.
But while she tries to claim her ex is “bleeding her dry”, DailyMail.com can reveal that since their ten-year relationship ended in divorce after a two-year marriage, her fortune has soared.
Far from causing her funds to decrease, a DailyMail.com investigation reveals that Jolie’s relationship with Pitt has helped enrich her by nearly $100 million.
That money came from loans, child support, gifts and the millions he made from the sale of his 50 percent stake in the property at the center of the dispute, Chateau Miraval, of which ten percent was a gift from Pitt.
The couple’s former French home, a stunning 1,200-acre estate and vineyard, was worth $60 million when they bought it in 2008. Now, thanks to Pitt’s effort and investment in the business, it is worth a staggering $164 million. Dollars.
And while Jolie, 48, appears to be crying poverty in her latest court filings, sources close to Pitt say the Tomb Raider star had enough funds to sign a recent deal to take over 57 Great Jones Street, a space only one in Manhattan once owned by Andy Warhol and previously rented for $60,000 a month.
Angelina Jolie has accused her ex Brad Pitt of trying to ‘control and drain her financially’ during their ongoing legal battle since their 2016 split, new documents reveal.
Angelina Jolie looked effortlessly chic while visiting the store of her new fashion house, Atelier Jolie.
Friends of the actor say Pitt has been doing his part to financially support his ex-wife and children, despite their bitter legal battle.
Details of Jolie’s property are unknown, but she opened the 6,600-square-foot property as a store to promote her fashion brand, Atelier Jolie.
In newly filed court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, the actress states: “It is extremely painful for Jolie to have to defend herself against Pitt’s lawsuit – another example of Pitt’s tireless efforts to control and drain her financially – especially because the false accusations Pitt’s Pitt of an NDA to cover up his history of physical and emotional problems. Abuse of Jolie and her family.
A source familiar with the situation says, “Angie says Brad is bleeding her, but it seems like she wants to bleed him.”
“Far from wanting to ruin his ex, it seems Brad has done everything he can to support Angie and help her financially even though she seems so vindictive,” the source added.
Originally, Pitt had attempted to buy out Jolie himself, to keep the winery “in the family” in case she wanted to opt out. But the deal collapsed amid acrimony.
Pitt accused Jolie of violating their purchase agreement when she sold her 50 percent stake in Chateau Miraval to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler in 2021, without her ex-husband’s consent.
According to Jolie, the previous offer to sell it to Pitt for $54 million fell through due to his demands.
Since their split in 2016, the two stars have been fighting in court over their French winery, Chateau Miraval (pictured), which they once owned together.
Pitt was shocked when his ex-wife sold half of their stunning Chateau Miraval property without his agreement to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler (left) in 2021.
Jolie accused her ex-husband of abusing both her and her six children: Maddox Chivan, 22, Pax Thien, 20, Zahara Marley, 19, Shiloh Nouvel, 17, and twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. of 15.
But friends of the Oscar-winning Once in Hollywood star have stepped forward to defend Pitt as a man who has been nothing but generous in his treatment of the actress.
By 2018, Pitt had spent more than $1.3 million on child support, including therapy for the children, in addition to paying hundreds of thousands in miscellaneous bills.
According to sources, Pitt has been consistent in paying these expenses for the past seven years, during which time he is believed to have lost nearly $10 million in child support.
When the then-couple purchased Miraval in 2008, Pitt took a 60 percent stake in the wine company and estate, while Jolie took 40 percent.
Pitt invested millions in the property, rode the rosé wave and expanded the business in an effort that saw sales grow 300 percent.
Soon, the property they purchased for an estimated $60 million was worth closer to $164 million.
By the time of their wedding, Jolie had “stopped investing,” according to previously filed court records, something she has denied.
Still, Pitt transferred 10 percent of his share to her as a wedding gift in December 2013 “for the sum of 1 euro.” [never paid]’ so at the time of their marriage in August 2014, they were equal 50/50 partners.
According to sources, Pitt (pictured with three of his children and his parents in 2014) has lost nearly $10 million in child support over the years.
Sources close to the Hollywood actor have defended Pitt as a man who has been nothing but generous in dealing with his ex, whom they call ‘vindictive’.
In addition to this generous gift, Pitt gave his wife a rare Winston Churchill painting, ‘Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque’, which he sold in March 2021 for $11.5 million.
He loaned her $8 million to buy her current home in Los Angeles in 2018.
Jolie purchased the large complex in Los Feliz that was once the home of Cecil B. DeMille for $24.5 million and has since claimed that Pitt’s $8 million was in the form of a loan that included interest and a payment plan.
Ironically, she told Vogue that she chose the property because she wanted the children to be closer to their father, who lives just five minutes away.
Meanwhile, as the war over the sale of the winery rages on, Pitt has scored several legal victories in recent months, including a key ruling in Luxembourg that returned him control of the award-winning Chateau Miraval vineyard pending further hearings.
Last month she scored another victory when the Los Angeles Superior Court rejected Jolie’s claims that her lawsuit was “frivolous, malicious and part of a problematic pattern.”