Angelina Jolie’s Lawyers Call Brad Pitt’s NDA Request ‘Abusive’ in Winery Case

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage

Angelina Jolie is contesting Brad Pitt’s petition for NDAs successful their yearslong winery dispute, “Page Six” reported connected April 26. Lawyers for Jolie are calling Pitt’s question to get Jolie’s NDAs from immoderate 3rd parties an penetration of privacy, an effort to soundlessness her, and adjacent “abusive.” Attorneys for Pitt asked L.A. Superior Court to disclose the NDAs and different delicate accusation earlier this period successful an evident effort to shed airy connected whether his NDA petition was “the deal-ender [Jolie] subsequently alleged it to be” erstwhile selling her vineyard shares to a Russian oligarch instead. Pitt first sued Jolie implicit the merchantability of their $500 cardinal winery, Château Miraval, in 2022.

Jolie’s attorneys antecedently claimed Pitt wanted her to motion an “onerous” and “expansive” NDA that would “cover Pitt’s idiosyncratic misconduct whether related to Miraval oregon not,” including the maltreatment allegations related to an incidental connected a level successful 2016, successful bid for Jolie to hold to merchantability her involvement successful Miraval to Pitt. When the woody fell isolated implicit the matter, she sold her shares elsewhere.

“By their nature, Pitt’s Requests question to intrude connected Jolie’s privacy,” says Jolie’s caller filing, per “Page Six.” “The Requests question contracts betwixt Jolie (or immoderate of her entities) and immoderate different idiosyncratic oregon entity. Most, if not all, of these agreements volition beryllium employment-related contracts that see Jolie’s compensation oregon compensation she paid to 3rd parties.” Jolie’s lawyers added, “Forcing Jolie to walk the clip and disbursal of gathering and producing each of this documentation is expensive, wasteful, and unreasonable — and the latest manifestation of Pitt’s abusive behaviour toward Jolie. The Court should not let it.”

Brangelina archetypal purchased the famed, 1,200-acre vineyard successful 2008 and were married successful the Châtaeu’s chapel six years later. The mates divorced successful 2019. The quality implicit the spot brought maltreatment allegations against Pitt back into headlines, wherein filings item the carnal maltreatment Jolie and their children faced connected a level successful 2016.