The fiery authorized battle between A-list actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt nonetheless isn’t cooling off, with new court docket paperwork claiming Jolie instructed their kids to “keep away from” Pitt throughout his custody visits.
Attorneys for Pitt, 60, filed new court docket paperwork on Thursday alleging Jolie, 48, tried to sabotage the connection between the ex-spouses’ six kids and their father. In keeping with ET Information, who obtained the submitting, a longtime safety guard to Jolie mentioned he was informed a contractor overheard the Maleficent actor instructing her children to not converse to Pitt throughout their visits.
Tony Webb, who’s now not employed by Jolie, additionally mentioned she tried to silence her workers and contractors via non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
In an announcement, Jolie’s lawyer known 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.”
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Pitt’s new allegations had been filed within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket, 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 a substitute of to him.
Jolie filed a countersuit of her personal and claimed she offered her portion of the vineyard after negotiations to promote to Pitt got here to a halt. She informed the court docket Pitt insisted Jolie signal a “nondisclosure settlement that might have contractually prohibited her from talking outdoors of court docket 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 personal 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 top and shook her.”
Regardless of an FBI investigation, Pitt has by no means been formally charged with home abuse.
In keeping 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 mentioned he and a number of other different members of employees had been informed by Jolie they’d be sued in the event that they violated their NDAs by testifying within the ex-spouse’s earlier baby custody case.
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Regardless, Webb mentioned some employees members “confirmed that that they had deliberate to testify if subpoenaed.”
Webb mentioned one of many contractors working underneath 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 court docket. Webb mentioned his firm was fired “shortly thereafter.”
Jolie’s lawyer, Paul Murphy, addressed Pitt’s new claims in an announcement to ET Information.
“Mr. Pitt’s continued try and equate widespread NDAs for safety personnel and housekeepers masking confidential data workers 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 just isn’t about NDAs generally, 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 appears to be like ahead to the day when he’s lastly capable of let her go.”
As for the vineyard, Pitt informed 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.
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Her attorneys informed the court docket Pitt “immediately conditioned his buy of Jolie’s share of Miraval on her agreeing to a vastly expanded NDA now masking Pitt’s private misconduct, whether or not associated to Miraval or not.” Jolie has mentioned this obvious NDA enlargement was meant to hide Pitt’s alleged abuse towards her and their kids.
Pitt has informed the court docket it was Jolie who needed an expanded NDA, not him.
