Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce continues to be acrimonious. In new court documents related to their ongoing legal battle over the former couple’s winery Château Miraval, Jolie writes that she and their children haven’t been to the property since their separation, citing “painful events” as the cause.
In new court documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on October 6th and obtained by People, Jolie says that she left her ex husband “control (and full residency) of our family homes in Los Angeles and at Miraval, without compensation, which I hoped would make him calmer in his dealings with me after a difficult and traumatic period.”
Jolie maintains that that neither she nor her six kids with Pitt—Maddox, 24; Pax, 21; Zahara, 20; Shiloh, 19; and twins Vivienne and Knox, 17—have returned to the property. “To this day, the children and I have never again set foot on the property, given its connection to the painful events leading to the divorce,” Jolie wrote in her statement.
Jolie and Pitt met on the set of the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. They were together for twelve years and separated in 2016 after two years of marriage. In December 2024, they finalized their lengthy divorce. However their legal battle over Château Miraval, which they co-owned, is still not over. Jolie sold her stake of the French winery to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group in 2021. In February 2022, Pitt filed a lawsuit alleging that Jolie’s sale infringed upon a prior agreement that neither would sell unless the other person approved. Jolie responded with a countersuit in September 2022, alleging that Pitt has been “waging a vindictive war against” her since their divorce.
In the most recent court filing, Jolie goes on to detail her process of trying to find a new home for her family after leaving Pitt. “Post-separation, I immediately began to look for a new house for me and our children, initially renting a home while looking for a more stable solution,” she writes. “Because I wanted to ensure that Brad remained an important part of our children’s lives, I looked to buy a property near his home. At the time, my savings were tied up in Miraval, and I had not asked Brad for alimony or any other financial support.”
A source close to the matter shared: “This is a commercial dispute that has nothing to do with the divorce proceedings, this filing is one side trying to conflate the two and justify the sale of Miraval.”
“It was a focal point of our family life,” wrote Jolie in the October 6th filing. “We were married there, I spent part of my pregnancy there and I brought our twin children home there from the hospital. To have such a sudden break from my home and memories has been hard, and it was especially difficult for the children to have their lives so disrupted.”
Vanity Fair has reached out to Jolie and Pitt for comment.
Original story appeared in VF España.
