Brad Pitt Requests Private Messages Amid Angelina Jolie Legal Battle
Brad Pitt is taking further steps in his ongoing legal battle with ex Angelina Jolie.
Although the former couple—who share kids Maddox, 22, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne—officially finalized their divorce in December following eight years of proceedings, they are still settling a dispute over Château Miraval, the French winery they previously owned together.
Indeed, Pitt filed court documents June 30 seeking to depose Alexey Oliynik, who works for the alcohol brand Stoli Group. Pitt stated in his filing, obtained by E! News, that Oliynik has firsthand knowledge of Jolie's 2021 sale of the former couple's winery to Tenute del Mondo, which is the wine division of Stoli.
The F-1 star alleges in his filing that Oliynik has refused to turn over relevant documents pertaining to the sale of the winery.
'These requests go directly to key allegations about Pitt's objections to the sale,' the motion reads, arguing that the request to depose Oliynik meets 'the standard for discoverability given Pitt's allegations that Jolie acted with malice in selling to Stoli, a counterparty she knew Pitt opposed.'
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E! News has reached out to Pitt and Jolie for comment but has not yet heard back.
Pitt's latest filing comes three years after he initially sued Jolie for selling the winery in 2022, claiming in the original documents, obtained by People, that his ex's sale of their former estate was part of a 'vindictive war' against him.
Jolie, for her part, countersued the Fight Club actor. In her own filing, she alleged that she had only sold the property because Pitt had tried to get her to sign an NDA as part of his own deal, one that would have barred her from discussing a 2016 incident during which Pitt was allegedly physically and emotionally abusive with his family.
Following the couple's filing for divorce, Pitt acknowledged he had abused alcohol during their marriage and became sober. In response to Jolie's allegations, his lawyer said in a statement to NBC News in 2022, "Brad has owned everything he's responsible for from day one—unlike the other side—but he's not going to own anything he didn't do.'
The latest request in the proceedings follows Pitt successfully pursuing an order that required Jolie to hand over eight years of nondisclosure agreements last April. At the time, Jolie's legal team said they were 'more than happy' to comply with the order, saying it would only prove that Pitt's NDA that Jolie refused to sign was egregious.
'Common NDAs are simply not comparable to Mr. Pitt's last-second demand to try and cover up his personal misconduct," Jolie's lawyer Paul Murphy said in a statement to E! News at the time, noting that their team was "gratified that the Court acknowledged that the only potential relevance is to the unconscionability of Mr. Pitt's conduct, a now confirmed key issue in this case.'
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