Angelina Jolie says Brad Pitt’s ‘abuse’ began before plane incident

The authorized battle between exes Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt over their previously shared vineyard continues, and neither facet is holding again.

In a brand new authorized submitting Thursday that was obtained by PEOPLE, Jolie’s legal professionals allege that Pitt bodily abused her, and that the abuse was not restricted to the 2016 aircraft incident that made headlines in recent times.

“Whereas Pitt’s historical past of bodily abuse of Jolie began nicely earlier than the household’s September 2016 aircraft journey from France to Los Angeles, this flight marked the primary time he turned his bodily abuse on the youngsters as nicely,” Jolie’s legal professionals allege within the new courtroom doc. “Jolie then instantly left him.”

Representatives for Pitt and Jolie didn’t instantly reply to EW’s request for touch upon this new allegation. Pitt has denied any abuse prior to now.

In February 2022, Pitt sued Jolie for promoting her share within the French winery Chateau Miraval — which that they had bought collectively in 2008, and the place they have been married in 2014 — with out his approval. Later that yr, Jolie countersued, claiming she had tried to promote her share of the winery to Pitt first however that negotiations fell aside after his crew insisted that she signal a nondisclosure settlement that may stop her from talking publicly in regards to the 2016 aircraft incident.

Jolie and her legal professionals have beforehand alleged that in a flight on the household’s personal aircraft in 2016, Pitt bodily assaulted Jolie and their kids. Each the FBI and the Los Angeles County Division of Youngsters and Household Providers investigated the alleged incident. The latter dominated that Pitt didn’t abuse the youngsters, and the FBI declined to carry any legal costs in opposition to the actor.

In response to Jolie’s attorneys’ submitting on Thursday, Pitt’s attorneys filed a movement on Friday asking Jolie to reveal some other nondisclosure agreements she entered into with third events, together with her private employees.

“If Jolie conditioned her continued employment of a person on that particular person’s settlement to an NDA masking what they witnessed in her dwelling — together with her remedy of her kids and Pitt — that may be extremely probative of whether or not she really believed the availability requested by Pitt was an ‘unconscionable gag order,'” Pitt’s attorneys acknowledged in authorized paperwork obtained by Leisure Weekly. “The identical is true with respect to any NDA between Jolie and any third social gathering with whom she is in a relationship or who has assisted with the care of the couple’s kids.”

The paperwork continued, “To the extent that Jolie requested this third social gathering’s silence about her household or homelife, significantly in a circumstance the place there was no enterprise justification, it might converse volumes about whether or not Jolie truly considered Pitt’s requested NDA, which was linked to the Miraval enterprise, because the deal-ender she subsequently alleged it to be… Jolie adamantly refuses to supply the various different NDAs that she signed or requested from others in the course of the related time interval, together with associated paperwork, presumably as a result of she is aware of they may severely undermine her defenses.”

A choose declared Pitt and Jolie legally single in 2019, and the previous spouses share joint custody of their six kids: Maddox, 22; Pax, 20; Zahara, 19; Shiloh, 17; and 15-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.

[This article has been updated to include Pitt’s attorneys’ filing on Friday.]

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