As we discussed yesterday, the fight over Chateau Miraval continues to be a giant mess. Angelina Jolie successfully sold her half of Miraval to a Stoli subsidiary. Her half is called Nouvel, and Stoli is owned by Yuri Shefler. At this point, I don’t understand why the English-language press continues to act like the fight is solely about Angelina and Brad, when it’s clear that Shefler is on the warpath. While Pitt wallows in petulance and sad-sack grievance over Angelina selling Nouvel, Shefler is having the French authorities raid Miraval and there is, I believe, a significant criminal case to be made for Pitt defrauding Nouvel and defrauding his new business partner. Anyway, Nouvel (now owned by Shefler) launched a scathing attack on Pitt in new court filings this week. The Financial Times had some highlights, which we covered yesterday, but People Magazine had even more, including quotes from a “source close to Pitt.”

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s legal battle over the French winery they once owned together continues as Jolie’s former company makes harsh claims about Pitt. About Château Miraval, Jolie’s former investment firm Nouvel said in a new court filing obtained by PEOPLE that Pitt, 59, “has been engaged in a vindictive campaign to dominate and loot the wine business that the couple had built and owned together.”

Nouvel’s attorneys wrote that Pitt’s investment company Mondo Bongo has the same 50 percent ownership of Château Miraval as Nouvel. So, they write, “as a co-equal owner, Pitt enjoys precisely the same rights and obligations as Nouvel — nothing more, nothing less.” However, the filing claims that “following a script that may play in Hollywood but not in a court of law, Pitt and his co-conspirators have engaged in increasingly outrageous actions to retain control over Château Miraval and harm Nouvel by stripping Château Miraval of its assets….Incensed that Jolie sold Nouvel to Stoli rather than him, Pitt has acted like a petulant child, refusing to treat Nouvel as an equal partner in the business.”

Reps for Pitt did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. A Pitt source familiar with the litigation claims to PEOPLE, “Brad built this business with Angelina for their family and she sold it behind his back. He wants to hold on to the business and continue to grow it.”

Nouvel’s filing claimed Jolie “offered to sell her interest” to Pitt and “negotiated with him for months.” But, “Pitt’s hubris got the better of him: he made an eleventh-hour demand for onerous and irrelevant conditions, including provision designed to prohibit Jolie from publicly speaking about the events that had led to the breakdown of their marriage.”

Pitt’s lawyers said the connection to the “Russia-affiliated spirits conglomerate” now “jeopardizes the reputation of the business that Pitt so carefully built.” Nouvel’s latest filing called that a “xenophobic, untrue smear campaign” and said Shefler is a “Russian exile who is a long-time critic of Vladimir Putin.”

In recent court documents, Pitt’s side said he and Jolie bought “the château as a home to share with their children and the vineyard as a family business.” And, “Jolie, though supportive of Pitt’s efforts on behalf of the family, did none of the work necessary for Miraval’s success.”

“The purported sale disrupts Pitt’s right to enjoy the home he established for his family,” his legal team then added. In its filing this week, Nouvel downpalyed Pitt’s involvement with the business (he “is an actor, not a winemaker,” they wrote, “he deals in illusions, not dirt and grapes) and said Château Miraval is no “family home.”

“The notion that Chateau Miraval was the Pitt-Jolie family home died back in 2016 when Pitt terrorized his wife and children in a drunken rage while en route from the chateau to Pitt’s true home — Hollywood,” they wrote. Nouvel legal team added, “This is a fight about money and corporate control, not a fight over a family home.”

A Pitt source responds to claims about his involvement in the wine company, saying, “It’s obviously going very well or else nobody would be fighting over this company. It’s a very successful brand, and he’s done a lot with it.”

Jolie’s attorney Paul Murphy claims, in part, in statement obtained by PEOPLE Tuesday, “The reality is that Pitt refused to complete the Miraval sale with Jolie unless she agreed to be silenced about the abuse. She legally sold her shares, yet Pitt persists in lawsuits against her.”

[From People]

The quotes from Nouvel’s filing are fire, and the quotes from “sources close to Pitt” are fascinating. “Brad built this business with Angelina for their family and she sold it behind his back. He wants to hold on to the business and continue to grow it.” In fact, he cut her out of the business for years and mismanaged her investment, and she was well within her rights to sell to a third party. But Pitt seems to be on the back foot here as well – it was much easier for him when he was bullying and financially abusing his ex-wife, but now he’s dealing with Shefler and Shefler is perfectly willing to air all of Pitt’s fraud and financial abuse in court. Pitt thought he could just sue Jolie and somehow reverse the sale of Nouvel. Nouvel’s new owner said: bitch, you thought. As I said, I think the endgame here is that Shefler will end up owning 100% of Miraval.

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