Brad Pitt claims ‘vindictive’ Angelina Jolie ‘secretly’ sold estate as payback

Brad Pitt says Angelina Jolie “secretly” sold her share of their French estate to a “Russian oligarch” in order to get back at him.

Brad Pitt says Angelina Jolie “secretly” plotted to sell her share of their French estate, Chateau Miraval, to get back at him amid their bitter custody battle.

According to legal documents obtained byPage Six, the Bullet Train star claims that he and Jolie agreed they would never sell their share in the $US30 million property – which they bought in 2008 – without the other’s approval.

Yet when they got divorced in 2019, Jolie decided she wanted out and started to negotiate a buyout option with Pitt, 59.

The 47-year-old actress allegedly even agreed to divide the business up 68 per cent to 38 per cent in Pitt’s favour because he had invested more money and time into the project.

Yet in the summer of 2021, Pitt found out via a press release that the Maleficent actress had sold her 50 per cent stake to a “Russian oligarch,” whom Pitt had previously turned down.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are embroiled in a nasty custody battle. Picture: Robert Kamau/GC Images

Pitt claims his “vindictive” ex-wife “collaborated in secret” with Yuri Shefler, who also owns Stoli Group, to ensure he would be “kept in the dark.”

The new filings claim that Jolie “no longer wanted to sell to Pitt” in the “wake of the adverse custody ruling,” in which he was granted joint custody of their six children. (The decision was later overturned.)

“Her decision to terminate negotiations with Pitt was intentional and pretextual,” the document filed in LA Superior Court states. “As will be demonstrated at trial, Jolie’s actions were unlawful, severely and intentionally damaging Pitt and unjustly enriching herself.”

Not only that, but Pitt believes his ex-wife specifically chose Shefler because she knew it would be bad for business given his ties to Vladimir Putin – specifically his “invasion of Ukraine and homophobic legislative agenda.”

“Stoli and Jolie have sought to force Pitt into a partnership with a stranger, and worse yet, a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions,” the document alleges.

Now that half of the property has been sold to a third party, Pitt says it defeats the purpose of buying Miraval as a “loving home for their six children” in the first place.

The pair share six children. Picture: Justin Tallis/PA Images via Getty Images

The latest filings come nine months after Jolie filed a $US250 million countersuit against the Fight Club actor for trying to “seize control” of the French winery to “ensure … [she] would never see a dime” of its vast profits.

The suit – which Jolie’s company, Nouvel, brought – also claimed that Pitt tried to force Jolie to sign a “hush-clause” that would silence her from discussing the circumstances of their divorce.

It adds, “In retaliation for the divorce and custody proceedings, Pitt embarked on a multifaceted, years-long campaign to seize control of Chateau Miraval and appropriate the company’s assets for his benefit and that of his own companies and friends.

“Appointing himself the rightful owner of Chateau Miraval, his twin objectives were to usurp the value of Jolie’s company, Nouvel, and to obtain sole ownership of Chateau Miraval.”

Pitt filed his original lawsuit against Jolie in February 2022, claiming that she deprived him “of his right to enjoy his private home and to oversee the business he developed from scratch.”

Angelina Jolie with her children Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (L) and Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (R) in 2015. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France.

The 35-room mansion is surrounded by lush gardens with a moat, fountains, aqueducts, a pond, a chapel and a vineyard. The pair even married at Chateau Miraval.

Jolie and Pitt were wed in 2014 after nine years dating.

They announced their shock split in 2016.

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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