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Brad Pitt asked a L.A. judge to step in and order his ex-wife Angelina Jolie to turn over hundreds of emails she has refused to produce as part of their nasty court battle, In Touch can exclusively report.
According to court documents obtained by In Touch, Brad, 60, and his legal team slammed Angelina, 49, as they exes continue to fight over her sale of her stake in Chateau Miraval.
Brad said, “In a last-ditch attempt to suppress the truth about her wrongful sale to the Stoli Parties, [Angelina] has withheld hundreds of emails she exchanged with her inner circle in the period leading up to the sale on claims of attorney-client privilege. But 126 of those emails are entirely between non-lawyers. These 126 communications should be ordered produced.”
Brad said he first requested documents regarding the sale from Angelina more than two years ago. His lawyer said, “After stonewalling for more than a year, [Angelina] finally agreed to produce these documents last summer.”
Brad’s attorney continued, “However, [Angelina’s] agreement to produce them has turned out to be illusory. Indeed, [Angelina] has produced only one internal communication discussing or reflecting the sale.”
“[Angelina] claims that all of her team’s other internal communications on this subject are protected by the attorney/client privilege. This includes hundreds of emails to or from non-attorneys, such as her business manager Terry Bird, her image consultants Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, her wine consultant Christophe Salin, her finance consultants Marjorie Brabet-Friel and James Friel, and her personal assistants Michael Vieira and Mindy Nyby. 126 of these communications do not even involve any attorney participant. [Angelina’s] wildly overbroad assertion of privilege over these 126 communications is unsupported by the law, and it cannot justify her near-complete cover-up of this critically important discovery.”
Brad demanded Angelina be ordered to turn over the emails in question.
As In Touch previously reported, Miraval is a French winery the couple purchased while married with the plan to turn it into a business that would be passed down to their children.
Brad said he spent a ton of time and money on the project and turned Miraval into a lucrative wine business. Brad and Angelina each owned 50 percent of the business.
Brad and Angelina split in 2016 after an incident on a private plane. In 2021, Angelina emailed Brad informing him she wanted out of the business.
Brad said he and his team negotiated with Angelina to buy her stake in the company. Brad offered his ex-wife $54.4 million that would be paid out over six years.
The actor said Angelina dropped out of talks with him and sold her stake to a company named Stoli Group, owned and controlled by a Russian billionaire named Yuri Shefler. The actor said his ex-wife was paid $64 million in her deal with Stoli.
Brad claimed that Angelina violated an agreement not to sell her stake without his approval. Angelina disputed the claim she was required to get Brad’s approval for the deal.
In his lawsuit, Brad claimed that Stoli and Yuri attempted a hostile takeover of Mirval after buying Angelina’s stake in the company.
Nouvel, the company that held Angelina’s stake and which was sold to Stoli, filed a countersuit against Brad for $350 million in damages. The suit accused Brad of misusing company assets for vanity projects. Brad denied the accusations. Both cases are ongoing.
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