Brad Pitt Escalates Château Miraval Battle, Demanding Angelina Jolie’s Financial Records as Years-Long Legal War Deepens

Nearly a decade after Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ended their marriage, one of Hollywood’s most famous former couples is still fighting — not over custody, not over divorce, but over a vineyard in the south of France that once symbolized their life together.

Now, that battle has entered another tense phase.

Brad Pitt is renewing his effort to obtain years of Angelina Jolie’s financial and property records, arguing that her Hollywood earnings, brand deals and other sources of income could directly affect the outcome of their ongoing lawsuit over Château Miraval.

Jolie’s legal team sees the request very differently.

Her lawyers have described Pitt’s push for the documents as excessive and have characterized it as another example of what they call “controlling conduct.”

At the center of the dispute is a question that sounds simple but has become legally complex:

Why did Angelina Jolie sell her stake in Château Miraval in 2021, and did she have the right to do it without Pitt’s approval?

Pitt, 62, says the answer may depend partly on Jolie’s financial situation at the time.

His attorneys recently filed new legal documents asking a judge to compel Jolie, 51, to turn over financial records covering the period from the couple’s separation through the sale of her interest in the winery.

The records Pitt’s team wants are extensive.

They include information about upfront payments for film roles, brand sponsorships and other professional services Jolie performed during the years before she sold her stake.

Pitt’s lawyers argue that those records could show whether Jolie was genuinely under financial pressure when she decided to sell.

“The requested records bear directly on Jolie’s allegations and should be ordered produced,” his attorneys wrote.

Without those documents, they argued, a jury could be left with what they described as “a materially incomplete picture.”

That claim goes directly to one of the most sensitive issues in the case.

Jolie has said that selling her stake in Château Miraval was part of her effort to achieve financial independence and separate her finances from Pitt after their relationship collapsed.

But Pitt’s legal team argues that if Jolie was earning substantial amounts of money through major Hollywood projects and other business activity, then those earnings could be relevant to how her explanation is evaluated.

Between 2017 and 2021, Jolie remained active in some of Hollywood’s biggest productions.

Her projects during that period included Maleficent, Eternals and Those Who Wish Me Dead.

Pitt’s attorneys believe records connected to that work could help establish the financial context surrounding the 2021 sale.

Jolie’s side strongly rejects that reasoning.

Newly revealed transcripts from an informal discovery conference held on July 8 show just how sharply the two sides disagree.

During the conference, one of Jolie’s attorneys called Pitt’s request for financial documents “an overreach” and “a gross one.”

The lawyer then went further, describing the effort as “essentially more controlling conduct by Pitt.”

According to Jolie’s legal team, the financial questions cannot be separated from the larger history of the former couple’s relationship.

Her attorney argued that Jolie spent years trying to rebuild her life and help her family recover after the breakdown of the marriage.

“For five years she put her career on hold so she can help her family heal from substantial physical and emotional abuse that Mr. Pitt put on that family,” her lawyer said during the conference.

The allegations referenced by Jolie’s team relate in part to the 2016 private jet incident that preceded the couple’s separation.

Jolie has alleged that Pitt was verbally and physically abusive toward members of the family during that flight.

Pitt was investigated at the time, but authorities did not charge him, and Jolie declined to press criminal charges.

The incident has nevertheless continued to appear throughout the former couple’s legal disputes.

Pitt’s lawyers are now trying to narrow the focus of the winery case.

In the latest filings, they accused Jolie of attempting to turn the lawsuit into something broader than the original dispute over Château Miraval.

According to Pitt’s team, Jolie is now trying to litigate “a very different case.”

“It is much more centered on what caused the couple to break up in 2016 and the disputes that arose among them thereafter,” his lawyers wrote.

They indicated that they would seek to prevent the trial from becoming a broader examination of the entire family conflict.

For Pitt, the central issue remains the 2021 sale of Jolie’s interest in Château Miraval.

The former couple purchased the French estate during their relationship, and the property later became one of their most significant joint assets.

They were also married at Château Miraval in 2014.

For years, the estate appeared to represent both their personal relationship and their shared business ambitions.

That changed after the marriage collapsed.

Jolie ultimately sold her stake to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group.

Pitt responded by filing a lawsuit in 2022.

He alleged that Jolie violated an agreement between them under which neither party would sell their interest in the winery without the other’s consent.

Jolie has denied that such approval was legally required.

She later countersued, accusing Pitt of “waging a vindictive war against” her.

From there, the Château Miraval dispute grew increasingly complicated.

One major point of contention became a proposed non-disclosure agreement.

Jolie’s lawyers have argued that Pitt refused to buy her out of the winery unless she agreed to sign an NDA that they say was designed to prevent her from speaking about his alleged abuse and related matters.

Her team has described that proposed agreement as abusive and controlling.

Pitt’s side has disputed the way Jolie has characterized the NDA and has argued that confidentiality provisions were connected to protecting the business.

The disagreement over that document has become one of the most contentious parts of the case.

Now, the fight over Jolie’s financial records threatens to expand the dispute again.

Jolie has resisted turning over some records, citing attorney-client privilege and arguing that the documents Pitt seeks are either protected or irrelevant.

Her lawyers also reject the idea that her financial need should become a central issue in the litigation.

In a filing made in June, Jolie’s legal team pushed back against Pitt’s claim that she had made financial vulnerability a major part of her case.

“The issue is not whether Jolie needed the money,” her attorneys wrote.

Instead, they said, the issue was that she wanted to “untangle her life and her finances” from a former husband they described as controlling and abusive.

“That distinction makes all the difference,” the filing stated.

That argument highlights the fundamental divide between the former spouses.

Pitt’s team wants the dispute treated largely as a business and contractual case.

Was there an agreement governing the sale of Château Miraval?

Did Jolie violate it?

And are her claims about needing financial independence relevant enough to justify examining her income?

Jolie’s side argues that the sale cannot be understood without examining the circumstances surrounding the collapse of their marriage and her desire to separate herself legally, personally and financially from Pitt.

Those competing narratives may ultimately shape how the case unfolds before a jury.

The legal fight also comes after the former couple finally completed another extraordinarily long legal process.

Pitt and Jolie separated in 2016 after approximately 12 years together and two years of marriage.

They share six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox.

Their divorce proceedings stretched on for years and became one of Hollywood’s most closely followed celebrity separations.

The divorce was finally settled in December 2024.

But finalizing the marriage did not end the conflict over Château Miraval.

Instead, the vineyard became a separate legal battlefield.

What was once the setting for their wedding and a symbol of their partnership is now at the center of allegations involving contracts, money, confidentiality agreements and deeply personal accusations from the end of their marriage.

Neither side appears willing to retreat.

Pitt is now asking the court to force Jolie to reveal more about her finances.

Jolie is arguing that the request is unnecessary, intrusive and part of a larger pattern of control.

And as both sides prepare for the possibility of putting their arguments before a jury, the case continues to become more complicated.

For Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the marriage is legally over.

But the fight over the life they once built together is not.

And years after they walked away from each other, Château Miraval remains the one place where their past continues to collide with their present.