Brad Pitt Says Angelina Jolie Wanted to 'Inflict Harm' with Vineyard Sale

Brad Pitt accused his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, who share six kids, of damaging the reputation of the wine business they previously co-owned by selling her half to a stranger.

In 2008, the former couple bought a controlling stake in the South of France vineyard and home Château Miraval.

In Pitt's latest court filing in his ongoing battle with Jolie over the sale, the actor, 58, claimed that Jolie, 47, intentionally sought to inflict harm on him by selling her interests in the company.

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He stated they had agreed to never sell their respective interests in the family business without the other's consent.

Pitt's legal team writes in the documents, filed Friday at Los Angeles County Superior Court, that Miraval became his passion project that grew into a multimillion-dollar global business and one of the world's most highly regarded producers of rosé wine through his work.

The actor accuses Jolie of contributing nothing to Miraval's success.

In the filing, Pitt's lawyers say Jolie planned to sell her interest in October to Tenute del Mondo, which is bent on taking control of Miraval and is indirectly owned and controlled by Yuri Shefler, the Russian billionaire who controls the Stoli Group.

Pitt's lawsuit accused Jolie of pursuing and consummating the sale in secret and purposely keeping Pitt in the dark, and knowingly violating Pitt's contractual rights.

The lawsuit claims that Jolie's business Nouvel owed his company, Mondo Bongo, the right of first refusal, and the sale infringed on that right. Jolie, who filed for porce in 2016, was previously cleared to sell her share of the estate in September.

Pitt's team says Shefler launched a hostile takeover of Miraval and is trying to get ahold of confidential and proprietary information for the benefit of his competing enterprise and accuses Shefler of having cutthroat business tactics and dubious professional associations, which in turn jeopardizes the reputation of the brand Pitt so carefully built.