Angelina Jolie’s lawyer says the actress recently won a series of court victories amid her legal battle with ex-husband Brad Pitt over Château Miraval, the French estate and vineyard they purchased in 2008.
The dispute between the A-list stars – who married in the Provence estate in the south of France in 2014 and separated in 2016 – revolves around Jolie’s sale of her property share to the oligarch Russian Yuri Shefler in 2021.
The judge ruled in favor of the 48-year-old Oscar winner “and dismissed five of Pitt’s seven claims against her” in a complaint he filed at a hearing in Los Angeles last week, said a close source. Entertainment tonight Wednesday.
“The judge rejected most of Mr. Pitt’s requests because they have no legal basis,” Jolie’s lawyer, Paul Murphy, told the outlet in a statement on Wednesday. ‘Mr. Pitt’s trial was never about a business dispute; instead, it is about his attempts to cover up serious abuse, and we are pleased that the judge dismissed much of Mr. Pitt’s complaint.
The Maleficent actress “truly has no ill will toward” Pitt, her lawyer said, adding that Jolie “hopes that he will now release her from her frivolous lawsuit, stop his incessant attacks and join her in helping their families to heal in private.
Angelina Jolie’s lawyer says the 48-year-old actress recently won a series of court victories amid her legal battle with ex-husband Brad Pitt, 60, over Château Miraval, the estate French that they bought in 2008.
The Mr. and Mrs. Smith stars have been entangled in the legal system amid battles over multiple issues over the past six years, including custody of their six children — Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19 years old, Shiloh, 17 years old and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15 years old.
Jolie’s legal victory came after Pitt, 60, made progress at an inheritance hearing last week in France as he “won a victory in a French court last week” in the ‘a decision on documents seized by authorities during a raid in March 2022, according to legal documents reviewed by The American sun Monday.
“There is a long way to go in this dispute, but at the moment, the momentum is certainly on Brad’s side,” an insider close to the Moneyball frontman told the media after Thursday’s court ruling. call from Aix-en-Provence. Provence.
The source said last week’s ruling marked the third consecutive time Pitt has made progress in the case.
“In recent months, he has scored three victories in court in three different jurisdictions: Luxembourg, the United States and now France,” the source said of the Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood actor. . “From the outset of this hostile takeover bid, he made it clear that he was not going to be intimidated – and he meant it.”
The Fight Club actor “stood strong and will continue to do what’s right.”
The recent decision was linked to a March 2022 search of the winery, during which officials wielding search warrants took possession of documents and a computer related to accusations against Shefler’s Nouvel company of ” embezzlement and abuse of company assets,” according to the media outlet, citing documents in the case.
Under French law, companies involved in lawsuits may be authorized by the court to collect evidence from the parties they are suing, in conjunction with court-appointed officials.
Pitt said in court documents that he and Jolie originally purchased the winery in 2008 (2008 photo) for $28.4 million.
The latest development in the case comes weeks after Jolie failed to convince the Los Angeles Superior Court to dismiss the case altogether.
The outlet reported that in that case, a separate court later overturned the aforementioned ruling, ordering that items collected from Shefler “remain locked and sealed” pending further court orders.
Thursday, according to the media, judge Valérie Gérard prevented Shelfer and his company Nouvel from accessing documents acquired during the raid.
The judge said that as an “indirect shareholder”, Nouvel “had no legal authority” to request access to the documents, which are in the custody of officials at French company SA Château Miraval de Pitt.
Nouvel was also ordered by the judge to pay approximately $21,000 in court costs; and the documents will be placed in a safe at Château Miraval under the responsibility of the Pitt company, the media reported.
The latest development in the case comes weeks after Jolie failed to convince the Los Angeles Superior Court to dismiss the case altogether.
The legal conflict was of great magnitude, since a Luxembourg court in November restricted Shefler’s power over part of his shares, Pitt thus becoming the majority shareholder.