Brad Pitt Scores ‘Major Victory’ in Battle With Ex Angelina Jolie Over Chateau: ‘Turned the Tables’

It’s finally come to an end. On December 30, Angelina Jolie’s legal team announced that eight years after the actress ended her marriage to Brad Pitt, they had, at long last, reached a settlement and signed off on their divorce. “Frankly, Angelina is exhausted,” her attorney James Simon said in a statement confirming the settlement news. “But she is relieved this one part is over.”

Another key battle in their contentious split, however, is still being fought. In 2022, Brad sued his ex over the 2021 sale of her stake in Château Miraval, the French vineyard they acquired in 2008, to an alcohol conglomerate led by a Russian billionaire – breaking an agreement Brad claims they had requiring that each get the other’s approval before striking a deal with a third party. Angelina, 49, scored a win in November when a judge ruled that Brad, 61, had to turn over his written communications from around the time of their 2016 split, which followed an argument involving her and their six children on a private plane that she says turned physical. (Brad has long denied her domestic violence claims and was cleared of any wrongdoing in the plane incident by the FBI.) Now, newly surfaced court papers reveal Brad has “turned the tables,” a source exclusively tells In Touch, and asked a judge to order Angelina to produce a trove of her own private correspondence – messages the F1 star believes could reveal problematic details about her actions in the Miraval sale. “This is a major victory for Brad.”

According to Brad’s lawyers, Angelina has “produced only one internal communication discussing or reflecting [on] the sale” of her half of Miraval to the Stoli Group for $64 million, court documents recently obtained by In Touch reveal. (Rather than allow Brad to buy her out for $54.4 million, as he says they agreed, Angelina pulled out when the deal required she sign a nondisclosure agreement she says would have silenced her abuse accusations.) The Maleficent star has claimed her other messages are “privileged” communications, but Brad’s team alleges 126 of the emails “are entirely between non-lawyers” — including to or from her business manager, personal assistants, and image, wine and finance consultants — so therefore should not be exempt. “In a last-ditch attempt to suppress the truth about her wrongful sale…[Angelina] has withheld hundreds of emails exchanged with her inner circle…on claims of attorney-client privilege,” the docs state.

On December 30, Angelina’s lawyer claimed that for the past eight years, “she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family.” She’s also fought Brad’s efforts to secure joint custody. With their divorce now settled, says the source, “one of them could give in on Miraval, but that’s not going to happen. Brad’s not going to let her win.”