Brad Pitt Says Angelina Jolie ‘Withdrew Her Agreement’ to Turn Over 3 Years of Financial Records
Brad Pitt says Angelina Jolie initially agreed to produce a broader set of financial documents in their Château Miraval lawsuit, then reversed course months before his lawyers asked a judge to intervene.
The dispute concerns Jolie’s financial records from 2017 through 2019. Pitt’s attorneys say she had agreed to provide discovery responses and profit-participation statements covering a wider period before changing that position on Feb. 23, according to RadarOnline’s report on the filing.
Jolie ultimately produced profit-participation statements and tax records for 2020 and 2021, Pitt’s side says. His lawyers now want the court to compel the earlier material, arguing that her income during the years after their separation could be relevant to explanations she has given for wanting to sell her interest in the French winery.
Jolie’s attorneys dispute that premise. They say she has never claimed she lacked the money to support herself and argue that wanting financial independence from an estranged spouse is different from claiming financial distress. Pitt sued Jolie in 2022 over her 2021 sale of her Miraval interest, their divorce was finalized in December 2024, but the winery case continued.
Pitt Says Jolie ‘Withdrew Her Agreement’ in February
Pitt’s filing describes discussions in which Jolie’s side allegedly agreed to provide declarations responsive to two discovery requests for the full 2017-2021 period, along with profit-participation statements covering those years. His lawyers say that changed on Feb. 23, when Jolie “withdrew her agreement” and subsequently limited what she produced to 2020 and 2021.
Pitt’s attorneys also proposed a way to end this portion of the discovery fight without obtaining the earlier records. According to the filing, they offered to withdraw the requests if Jolie stipulated that she had not been under “economic pressure” before Jan. 1, 2020, and that Pitt had not subjected her to “economic coercion” from 2017 through 2019. Jolie declined.
The disagreement is now over what the court should allow Pitt’s side to examine about the years between the couple’s 2016 separation and Jolie’s eventual Miraval sale. His lawyers contend that her earnings and compensation during that period could bear on arguments she may make about why she wanted out of the business relationship.
Jolie Says She Never Claimed She Was in Financial Distress
Jolie’s lawyers say Pitt is treating two different arguments as though they were the same. Her filing states that she “has never alleged that she was in financial distress” and says her position has instead been that she wanted to untangle her financial life from the husband she was divorcing.
That objection predates the latest reporting on Pitt’s request. PEOPLE reported in August that Pitt’s team was seeking information about Jolie’s income from movies, sponsorships and other work after the couple separated, while her attorneys argued that those private earnings would not establish why she sold Miraval.
Jolie has also connected her decision to leave the winery to the collapse of her relationship with Pitt and has said she did not return to Miraval after 2016. She has argued in earlier filings that negotiations for Pitt to buy her interest ultimately failed over a proposed non-disclosure agreement that she considered too broad. Pitt has disputed that characterization and denied Jolie’s allegations concerning his conduct.
The $67 Million Miraval Sale Remains at the Center of the Lawsuit
Jolie sold Nouvel, the company through which she held her Miraval interest, to Tenute del Mondo in October 2021 for $67 million. Tenute is part of the corporate group associated with Stoli and businessman Yuri Shefler.
Pitt sued Jolie the following February, alleging that the former spouses had an agreement requiring consent before either sold an interest in Miraval to an outside party. Jolie disputes that claim and has argued that she first attempted to sell her stake to Pitt before completing the Tenute transaction.
The proposed Pitt-Jolie buyout has consequently become important to both sides. Jolie says the negotiations broke down because of the NDA Pitt wanted included in the transaction. Pitt’s side has argued that an NDA was appropriate to protect the Miraval business and has disputed her characterization of its scope.
Recent Miraval Rulings Have Not All Favored the Same Side
Jolie prevailed in a separate discovery fight on May 4 when a Los Angeles judge ruled that she did not have to provide Pitt with 22 unredacted communications protected by attorney-client privilege. The court found that Pitt had not met the burden necessary to overcome that protection.
Pitt received favorable rulings the following month. On June 17, a California court ordered depositions involving Stoli representatives to move forward. One week later, the California Court of Appeal reversed an order that had removed Shefler from the lawsuit for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding sufficient California connections arising from his involvement in the transaction.