Brad Pitt has sued his ex-wife Angelina Jolie for selling her stake in a French winery they bought together – and where they married – to a Russian businessman.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles last Thursday (17), Pitt said that Jolie broke an agreement not to sell her interests in Château Miraval without the other’s consent by selling her stake to a unit of the Stoli Group, a maker of spirits controlled by the oligarch Yuri Shefler.
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The Oscar-winning couple had bought a controlling interest in Miraval in 2008, in the village of Correns, in southeastern France, between Marseille and Nice. They got married there in 2014.
Pitt, 58, said he “poured money and sweat” to make Miraval one of the most reputable rosé makers in the world, with annual revenue exceeding $50 million, according to the complaint. He accused Jolie, 46, of seeking “unearned unexpected profits” from her work while inflicting “free damage”. Jolie’s lawyers did not immediately respond on Friday to requests for comment.
According to the lawsuit, Jolie told Pitt in January 2021 that she had reached a “painful, heavy-hearted decision” to sell her stake in Miraval and could no longer have an alcohol business because of her personal objections. Purchase talks between Pitt and Jolie collapsed five months later, according to the complaint.
Tenute del Mondo, a privately owned unit of Stoli, announced the purchase of Jolie’s stake in October. The lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for breach of contract and other legal claims. Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016, and the divorce was finalized in 2019. They have six children.
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