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ACTRESS ANGELINA JOLIE is suing her ex-husband Brad Pitt for $250 million in damages allegedly caused in connection with the wine production business they shared in France.
The actress’s lawsuit comes after Pitt, whom she divorced six years ago, sued her for deliberately damaging the reputation of their wine company in France and selling her share of it to a “stranger”.
The couple had acquired the Chateau Miraval vineyard in 2008 for 45 million euros, with its corresponding mansion, in Provence (southeastern France), where years later they married and enjoyed several family vacations with their six children.
In the counterclaim filed this week by the actress, and accessed by CNN, Jolie accused her ex-husband Brad Pitt of waging a vindictive war against her and of “hijacking” control of the lucrative winery business they once shared.
Jolie, who filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 following a heated argument aboard a private plane that went on to be investigated by the FBI, is asking her ex-husband for $250 million in damages, the network claims.
Jolie’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of her former company Nouvel LLC, alleges that Pitt and his allies took illegal and malicious actions intended to harm both the actress and her company by devaluing her investments and depriving her of her rightful role in the management of Chateau Miraval, the world-famous rosé wine producer.
It also says that Pitt embarked on a multifaceted campaign over the years to take control of Chateau Miraval and appropriate the company’s assets for the benefit of himself and his own companies and friends.
Against this, the actor’s team handling the legal case opened by the sale of this property accuses Jolie of intentionally harming her ex-husband by selling her share in the company without his consent.
Pitt’s defense also argues that Jolie not only contributed nothing to the success of Miraval, a project that the actor was passionate about, but that she consummated the sale in secret and knowingly violated the conditions she had agreed with her ex-husband, according to which neither of them could sell their interests in the business without the other’s consent.
