Warring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally reached an agreement in their vicious eight-year divorce.
However, the former couple remain at loggerheads over their £50million French chateau and vineyard they once jointly owned. Jolie’s lawyer said the Maria actress has been left “exhausted” after the long-running battle over their children and £319m fortune.
Pitt, 61, and Jolie, 49, signed off on a default declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, saying they have entered into a written agreement on their marital and property rights. “More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr Pitt,” the Tomb Raider star’s attorney, James Simon, said in a statement.
“She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr Pitt, and since that time, she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family. This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
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Getty Images)The filing said they give up the right to any future spousal financial support but gave no other details. A judge will need to sign off on the agreement.
Jolie and Pitt were Hollywood’s most famous A-list for 12 years, two of them as a married couple. The Oscar winners have six children together. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 after a private jet flight from Europe during which she said Pitt was abusive towards her and their children.
The FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services investigated Pitt’s actions on the flight and deemed no action needed to be taken. A judge in 2019 declared them divorced and single, but the splitting of assets and child custody needed to be separately settled.
Soon after, a private judge, who the two had hired to handle the case, reached a decision that included equal custody of their children. But Jolie filed to have him removed from the case over an unreported conflict of interest.
An appeals court agreed the judge was removed, and the couple had to restart the process. During the long divorce fight, four of the couple’s six children became adults, negating the need for a custody agreement for them.
The only two who remain minors are 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. In June, one of their daughters, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, successfully petitioned to remove Pitt’s name from hers. Their other children are 23-year-old Maddox, 21-year-old Pax and 19-year-old Zahara.
The couple’s use of the private judge – an increasingly common move among splitting celebrities– has kept the proceedings and details of the divorce largely under wraps. There have been no official court actions in the case in nearly a year and no indication that the two had been nearing an agreement.
Some elements of their disputes, however, have been revealed through a separate lawsuit filed by Pitt over Jolie’s sale of her half of a French winery the two owned together. The couple married at their estate in Correns in 2014, The actor had wanted to buy her half of Chateau Miraval and said she abandoned their negotiations and sold her part to the Tenute del Mondo wine group, a subsidiary of the Stoli Group.
Pitt said it was a “vindictive” and “unlawful” move that should not have been made without his consent and ruined a private space that had been a second home. The fight has been dubbed “The War of the Rosés”. Jolie’s attorneys said Pitt had demanded she sign a wide-ranging non-disclosure agreement as part of the proposed deal.
In court documents, she described that as an attempt to cover up his physical abuse of her, which she said turned towards the children on the 2016 flight. Along with the federal and LA County officials, the initial judge in the case heard testimony on the allegations before deciding to give Pitt equal custody of the children.
The divorce agreement does not affect the winery lawsuit, where the legal battle between the two stars could continue. Publicly, Pitt and Jolie have been tight-lipped on their split.
Pitt said in a 2017 interview with GQ he had had a drinking problem at the time of the plane incident and the split but had since become sober and was going to therapy. He has not defended his behaviour on the flight.
Jolie has also declined to make any public statements about the family issues or the divorce. However, she has sought a broader examination of his behaviour in the divorce and winery cases.
Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston when he and Jolie met as co-stars on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2004. He split from Aniston early in 2005 and they became official that summer. Pitt began dating jewellery designer Ines de Ramon, 32, in 2022.
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