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Amid their nasty battle over their Château Miraval, Angelina Jolie is demanding cash from ex Brad Pitt!
In new court docket papers, obtained by “Further,” Jolie is requesting $33,000 from Pitt to pay for her authorized charges, months after he filed a movement for her to show over non-public messages between her and her crew.
The declaration said, “Jolie, via counsel, repeatedly requested Pitt to withdraw [the motion]. She even warned him quite a few occasions that if the Court docket denied Pitt’s movement, Jolie would ask the Court docket to order Pitt to pay Jolie’s attorneys’ charges opposing the movement. Pitt nonetheless refused to withdraw it. Jolie thus requests that the Court docket order Pitt to reimburse her for the substantial attorneys’ charges she was pressured to incur.”
Jolie additionally detailed how their separation affected her financially. She wrote, “The occasions resulting in my have to separate from my ex-husband have been emotionally troublesome for me and our youngsters. Upon submitting for divorce, I left him management (and full residency) of our household properties in Los Angeles and at Miraval, with out compensation, which I hoped would make him calmer in his dealings with me after a troublesome and traumatic interval.”
In response to Jolie, she and her children haven’t returned to Miraval, on account of “the painful occasions resulting in the divorce.”
“Publish-separation, I instantly started to search for a brand new home for me and our youngsters, initially renting a house whereas on the lookout for a extra secure answer,” Jolie famous.
“As a result of I wished to make sure that Brad remained an vital a part of our youngsters’s lives, I appeared to purchase a property close to his residence. On the time, my financial savings have been tied up in Miraval, and I had not requested Brad for alimony or every other monetary help. I used to be additionally very involved in regards to the well being of our youngsters, and so, for roughly two years, I declined work in order that I may focus my consideration on caring for our youngsters and their restoration.”
Attributable to her resolution to chop again on work, Angelina claimed, “I used to be subsequently not able to purchase outright a house for our youngsters in Los Angeles. I requested Brad to mortgage me the cash to purchase a house, which he agreed to do with curiosity.”
Jolie additionally recalled her 2017 conversations with Pitt to purchase her curiosity in Miraval, saying, “These discussions have been all the time troublesome for me, on account of my deep emotional ties to our household residence there and the way our relationship ended. Miraval was one of many first main investments we made collectively, and it was a focus of our household life. We have been married there, I spent a part of my being pregnant there and I introduced our twin youngsters residence there from the hospital. To have such a sudden break from my residence and reminiscences has been arduous, and it was particularly troublesome for the youngsters to have their lives so disrupted.”
As for the NDA that Pitt allegedly requested her to sign up 2021 following her home violence claims, she mentioned, “There was no sensible want for the NDA, as I had not pressed costs or spoken out in regards to the occasions that led to our divorce. In actual fact, for the earlier 5 years, I had by no means publicly mentioned a phrase about his actions. Because the mom of our youngsters, in addition to an advocate for victims of violence around the globe, I discovered his demand extraordinarily painful.”
She went on, “Though I had all the time voluntarily stored Brad’s actions confidential for the well being of our household and had no plans to ever publicly disclose the details, I couldn’t conform to this coercive demand.”
Their talks over her stake in Miraval then broke down and Jolie ended up promoting her curiosity to Stoli Group.
In July, Pitt requested to achieve entry to messages between Stoli Group’s Alexy Oliynik, Jolie, and her crew over the deal.
Jolie’s lawyer Paul Murphy opposed Pitt’s movement, writing within the court docket docs, “The attorney-client privilege is a bedrock of American jurisprudence and an important safety to shoppers in litigation. But [Pitt] strikes to compel [Jolie] to provide 126 privileged communications the place Jolie and a number of other of her closest advisors are discussing her legal professionals’ authorized recommendation. The movement is a clear try and invade Jolie’s privileged communications along with her legal professionals and needs to be denied for a lot of causes.”
Brad and Angelina finalized their divorce in late 2024.
Brad hasn’t commented on Angelina’s newest declaration.