The fiery authorized battle between A-list actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt nonetheless isn’t cooling off, with new courtroom paperwork claiming Jolie instructed their kids to “keep away from” Pitt throughout his custody visits.
Attorneys for Pitt, 60, filed new courtroom paperwork on Thursday alleging Jolie, 48, tried to sabotage the connection between the ex-spouses’ six kids and their father. In line with ET Information, who obtained the submitting, a longtime safety guard to Jolie stated he was advised a contractor overheard the Maleficent actor instructing her youngsters to not communicate to Pitt throughout their visits.
Tony Webb, who’s not employed by Jolie, additionally stated she tried to silence her staff and contractors by way of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
In a press release, Jolie’s lawyer referred to as Pitt’s new authorized submitting “shameful.” The lawyer accused Pitt of equating Jolie’s “widespread NDAs” together with his personal requests to allegedly strengthen present NDAs to help within the “coverup of his deplorable actions.”
Pitt’s new allegations had been filed within the Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, the place Pitt and Jolie are arguing over the Château Miraval vineyard they used to personal collectively within the south of France. In February 2022, Pitt started the messy authorized continuing when he sued Jolie for promoting her share of the vineyard to a Russian oligarch as an alternative of to him.
Jolie filed a countersuit of her personal and claimed she bought her portion of the vineyard after negotiations to promote to Pitt got here to a halt. She advised the courtroom Pitt insisted Jolie signal a “nondisclosure settlement that may have contractually prohibited her from talking exterior of courtroom about Pitt’s bodily and emotional abuse of her and their kids.”
A lot of the general public consideration on the lawsuit has revolved round Jolie’s claims Pitt was verbally and bodily abusive to her and their kids. The allegations stem from a now-infamous 2016 flight on a non-public jet that the household took collectively. Onboard, Jolie claimed Pitt “choked one of many kids and struck one other within the face” and “grabbed Jolie by the pinnacle and shook her.”
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Days after the flight, Jolie filed for divorce.
Regardless of an FBI investigation, Pitt has by no means been formally charged with home abuse.
In line with Pitt’s newest authorized submitting, Webb had been on Jolie’s payroll as head of her safety for over twenty years, and even after she divorced Pitt. Webb stated he and several other different members of employees had been advised by Jolie they’d be sued in the event that they violated their NDAs by testifying within the ex-spouse’s earlier youngster custody case.
Regardless, Webb stated some employees members “confirmed that they’d deliberate to testify if subpoenaed.”
Webb stated one of many contractors working below him allegedly heard Jolie “encouraging (their kids) to keep away from spending time with Mr. Pitt throughout custody visits.” Webb didn’t hear the remark himself.
The authorized submitting maintains this safety contractor who allegedly heard the remark, in addition to one other, testified in courtroom. Webb stated his firm was fired “shortly thereafter.”
Webb now works for Pitt, the submitting claims.
Jolie’s lawyer, Paul Murphy, addressed Pitt’s new claims in a press release to ET Information.
“Mr. Pitt’s continued try to equate widespread NDAs for safety personnel and housekeepers masking confidential info staff be taught at work, with him demanding an expanded NDA to make sure the continued coverup of his deplorable actions stays shameful,” Murphy wrote. “This case isn’t about NDAs usually, however about energy and management. All Angelina has ever needed was separation and well being, with optimistic relationships between all members of their household, together with Mr. Pitt. She seems to be ahead to the day when he’s lastly in a position to let her go.”
As for the vineyard, Pitt advised the courts he and Jolie agreed they’d promote their stakes in Château Miraval individually and “solely with the opposite’s consent.” Jolie denies this.
Her attorneys advised the courtroom Pitt “all of the sudden conditioned his buy of Jolie’s share of Miraval on her agreeing to a enormously expanded NDA now masking Pitt’s private misconduct, whether or not associated to Miraval or not.” Jolie has stated this obvious NDA enlargement was supposed to hide Pitt’s alleged abuse towards her and their kids.
Pitt has advised the courtroom it was Jolie who needed an expanded NDA, not him.
In April, Jolie advised the L.A. courtroom Pitt’s alleged bodily abuse predates the 2016 personal jet incident.
Jolie and Pitt share six kids: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
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