But Pitt should look in the mirror because it is he, and not the Stoli Group, who carries baggage, some of it recent front page news, that is detrimental to Château Miraval's business." In the new court filing, Jolie's legal team accuses Pitt of "gaslighting," saying Pitt claims that he's "the victim in order to cover up the harm he intentionally caused to his ex-wife (excluding her from the business and holding the most significant part of her net worth hostage) and the business (asset stripping and foolish spending). READ MORE: How a Sydney pet detective solved the case of a Bondi cat mix-up Jolie's (pictured here with Pitt in 2005) legal team claims Pitt tried to silence her about the circumstances of their divorce using the winery. Pitt's lawsuit in June alleged that Nouvel owed Mondo Bongo – Pitt's company – the right of first refusal and the sale of Jolie's stake infringed on that right, but Jolie, in September last year, was cleared to sell her share of the estate. The actor also claimed in the lawsuit that Jolie contributed "nothing" to Miraval's – the winery business – "multimillion-dollar global" success, and "purposely kept Pitt in the dark" when she sold her stake and in doing so, "knowingly violated Pitt's contractual rights." He said both he and Jolie had agreed not to ever sell their individual interests in the family business without getting the other's consent. Pitt filed a lawsuit in June accusing Jolie of damaging the wine business' reputation by selling her half in secret to a "stranger," and he also accused Jolie of seeking "to inflict harm" on him when she sold her interests in the wine company. READ MORE: Zac Efron reveals truth about plastic surgery rumours Château Miraval is a sprawling estate in France, where Jolie and Pitt got married. Jolie, per the court filing, was unwilling to agree to the "hush clause" and sold her portion of the winery to Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary of Stoli Group, instead, in October 2021. Nouvel's lawsuit alleges Jolie negotiated with Pitt's team for months for them to buy her half of the winery, but Pitt allegedly "made an eleventh-hour demand for onerous and irrelevant conditions, including a provision designed to prohibit Jolie from publicly speaking about the events that had led to the breakdown of their marriage. Pitt's behaviour has caused serious harm to Nouvel." To be clear, it is Pitt, and not Jolie, Nouvel or any of the other Defendants, who has acted in a hostile, destructive, and illegal manner. Nouvel, in their countersuit, allege their counterclaims against Pitt "lay bare the true nature of Pitt's egregious misconduct. READ MORE: First pictures on Cambridge kids' first day of school Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's legal battle over their winery has escalated with a new court filing from Jolie's company's team. Per court documents obtained by multiple media outlets, Nouvel alleges Pitt has "frozen Nouvel out of Château Miraval and treats it as his personal fiefdom" and "wasted its assets, spending millions on vanity projects, including more than 1 million on swimming pool renovations and other funds restoring a recording studio." The company also accuses Pitt of "waging a vindictive war" against Jolie after she filed for divorce in 2016. $369.3 million) lawsuit on Thursday in Los Angeles against the Bullet Train star, 58, claiming he "masterminded a so-far-successful plan to seize control of" Château Miraval, a vineyard and home the former couple bought a controlling stake of in 2008. Nouvel, a company founded by the Maleficent actress, 47, reportedly filed a $US250 million (approx. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie 's battle over the French winery they previously co-owned has escalated, with accusations emerging that Pitt tried to leverage the business to silence Jolie about the circumstances surrounding their divorce.
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