Brad Pitt's Legal Battle with Ex Angelina Jolie Heats Up as He Demands Private Messages Related to Winery Sale

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Brad Pitt filed new court documents relating to his legal battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over the French winery they co-owned

In a motion to compel, the actor-producer demanded private communications from the Stoli Group’s Alexey Oliynik, who Pitt claims has firsthand knowledge of Jolie’s sale of her half of Château Miraval

Per the document, his “requests go directly to key allegations about Pitt’s objections to [Jolie’s] sale”

Brad Pitt is demanding private communications from ex-wife Angelina Jolie in a new filing relating to their legal battle over Château Miraval.

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On June 30, the F1 star, 61, filed court documents obtained by PEOPLE revealing his attempts to depose Alexey Oliynik, who works for Stoli Group. Pitt claimed that Oliynik had firsthand knowledge of Jolie’s 2021 sale of the French winery the former couple co-owned to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group.

In February 2022, Pitt filed a lawsuit alleging that Jolie, 50, made the sale despite a prior agreement that neither would do so unless the other person approved. The Maria star responded to Pitt’s filing with a countersuit in September 2022, claiming he's been "waging a vindictive war against" her since she filed for divorce in 2016.

Reps for Pitt and Jolie did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Per Pitt’s new document filed in the Superior Court of California, Oliynik has refused to turn over relevant documents or appear for a deposition, arguing that he could not be forced to do so as a resident of Switzerland.

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“These requests go directly to key allegations about Pitt’s objections to the sale,” the Oscar winner’s legal team writes in his filing, and “easily meet the standard for discoverability given Pitt’s allegations that Jolie acted with malice in selling to Stoli, a counterparty she knew Pitt opposed.”

Pitt and Jolie, who share six children — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 16 — separated in 2016 after 12 years together and two years of marriage. The Mr. and Mrs. Smith stars finalized their protracted divorce last December.

Jolie's legal team has said in court documents that Pitt refused to buy her out of the winery business because she didn't want to sign a non-disclosure agreement "designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up," referring to a private jet flight in 2016 in which Pitt was allegedly verbally and physically abusive with his family. (The actor-producer was not charged by authorities after investigations and Jolie declined to press charges at the time.)

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2015; Chateau Miraval

In May 2024, a judge ruled that Jolie must produce eight years' worth of non-disclosure agreements in an attempt to illustrate that the Girl, Interrupted Oscar winner herself used the kind of NDAs that she objected to signing in 2021.

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Following the news of the former couple’s settlement, a source close to Jolie told PEOPLE that she hopes Pitt can now "move on," citing the winery lawsuit: "Sadly, until he drops his lawsuit, this family will not have the peace and healing they so very much desire and deserve."

A source close to Pitt said that Jolie's actions in their ongoing legal battle have caused "tremendous collateral damage to those in and around the family."

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