Angelina Jolie asks Brad Pitt to ‘stop fighting’ and drop charges

Angelina Jolie wants her controversial legal battle with ex-husband Brad Pitt to be over.

In a new statement from her lawyer Paul Murphy, the Research The actress has asked Pitt to drop his lawsuit against her over their once-shared French wine estate, which the High-speed train star filed in 2022.

“As Angelina again calls on Mr. Pitt to stop the fighting and finally put her family on the path to healing, unless Mr. Pitt withdraws his complaint, Angelina has no choice but to obtain the evidence necessary to prove his allegations false,” Murphy said in a statement provided to Weekly Entertainment THURSDAY.

Jolie’s team had previously asked Pitt to submit a slew of personal communications to the case, prompting her team to file a motion to dismiss.

Murphy said in his statement: “Mr. Pitt has control over all of the properties the couple shared as well as the business, but he is still demanding more and is suing Angelina for $67 million plus punitive damages. In doing so, Pitt has clearly exposed why he tried to punish and control Angelina by demanding a newly expanded confidentiality agreement.”

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A rep for Pitt declined to comment on the case. However, a source familiar with Pitt’s case described the matter to EW as a business dispute that got complicated after Jolie’s team introduced personal issues into the proceedings.

Pitt has filed a lawsuit against Angelina Jolie after claiming that his ex-wife sold her 50% stake in their joint winery, Chateau Miraval, to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler after she agreed to sell it to Pitt, who owns the other half of the estate. Jolie’s lawyers have claimed that she backed out of her agreement to sell her share of the estate to Pitt after he asked her to sign a comprehensive confidentiality agreement as part of the deal.

Jolie’s team previously said in a court filing that the nondisclosure agreement was “a significantly expanded confidentiality agreement that now covers Pitt’s personal misconduct,” while Pitt’s team claimed it was simply to “protect the reputation of the Miraval brand.” Jolie’s lawyers called the nondisclosure agreement “controlling and punitive” and “unfair” because it would prevent her from legally discussing Pitt’s alleged abuse of her and their children. (The most public incident of alleged abuse occurred during a 2016 flight that the FBI investigated, and Jolie cites it as the reason she ultimately filed for divorce in 2019, though Jolie claims Pitt’s abuse predates that instance.)

In May, a judge ordered Jolie to turn over eight years of other confidentiality agreements to prove that Pitt’s confidentiality agreement was unusual compared to typical nondisclosure agreements.

Angelina Jolie’s team recently asked Pitt to share a number of third-party communications as evidence in the case. Pitt’s most recent filing, which EW reviewed, calls the request a “sensationalist fishing expedition” that seeks to “extensively and intrusively uncover some of the most personal aspects of her ex-husband’s life,” including communications about therapy, drinking, “random drug and alcohol testing,” the couple’s divorce, and the 2016 robbery incident. Pitt’s lawyers argued that the requests went way too far because “Brad Pitt has voluntarily offered to produce documents sufficient to show everything that happened during the robbery that precipitated the former couple’s divorce.”