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Brad Pitt accuses Angelina Jolie of withholding information in $500 million winery dispute; says she hid several emails regarding the sale
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s legal battle over their French winery, Chateau Miraval, continues. Pitt accuses Jolie of withholding crucial emails regarding the sale of the winery to a Russian billionaire, claiming she sold her stake without his consent. Pitt’s legal team argues Jolie’s claims of attorney-client privilege are unfounded and seeks to nullify the sale.
Once the beloved couple of Hollywood, and now exes fighting for a payback, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been the talk of the town for quite some time now. According to the latest update, Brad has accused Angelina of withholding critical information about the controversial sale of their $500 million French winery.
This French winery in question called the Chateau Miraval, was bought by Brad and Angelina together. However, when the couple got divorced in 2016, right after that Brad claimed Angelina sold their joint estate to a third party without his knowledge and consent. Reportedly, initially, Jolie sent an email stating she wanted to get out of the winery business.
$54.4 million over six years was negotiated as the payment for Angelina’s stake in the estate. However, Brad and his legal team claim the actress dropped out of negotiations and sold her stake to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, at $64 million. The couple has been thus fighting over the matter for years.
According to Touch Weekly, Brad’s legal team has claimed Angelina has withheld hundreds of emails to keep the truth confined. Submissions from Brad’s case read – “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.”
The legal team of Brad has taken the liberty to call the documents illusory, as according to them Angelina ‘produced (the docs) only one internal communication discussing or reflecting the sale’. “[Angelina] claims that all of her team’s other internal com ..