The situation between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt appears to be escalating.
The two Hollywood icons were together for over ten years but were married for only two years.
Jolie, star of Salt, filed for divorce in 2016, alleging that Pitt was abusive to her and their children during a flight from France to California earlier that year.
Pitt has consistently denied these allegations.
Although their divorce proceedings are still ongoing and seem far from being resolved, a judge declared them legally single in 2019.
Their ongoing legal disputes mainly concern the custody of their six children, their estate, and their French winery, Chateau Miraval.
The former couple purchased the winery in 2008, and Jolie has since sold her share to a subsidiary of the Stoli Group, which is owned by a Russian oligarch.
Pitt, who is 60, claims this violated an agreement they had to not sell their shares without mutual consent. However, Jolie, 49, asserts that no such agreement existed.
Pitt subsequently sued Jolie for selling her stake, and the lawsuit is still in progress.
Last week, new court documents were filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. These documents show Jolie’s attorneys accusing Pitt of attempting to get Jolie to sign an $8.5 million non-disclosure agreement.
According to documentation obtained by PEOPLE, Jolie’s attorneys stated that Jolie ‘was not acting with malice and the intent to hurt Pitt in response to any custody ruling’.
They allege that Pitt refused to purchase her share of the winery unless she agreed to the NDA, which was ‘enforceable by an $8.5 million holdback specifically designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up’.
Jolie’s legal team further commented: “While Pitt advances what is effectively an outdated privacy-of-domestic-violence argument to shield his abuse, his argument is not the law, at least not in this century, and he cites no authority that would give him such unwarranted protections.
“In any event, he waived any privacy protections when he sued Jolie.”
The NDA reportedly pertains to the alleged abuse that Jolie cited as her reason for selling her stake in the winery to a third party. However, court documents obtained by UNILAD indicate that Pitt’s legal team argues the NDA ‘had nothing to do with the divorce or the children’.
The central question is ‘whether Jolie truly withdrew from the negotiations with Pitt because of the NDA he requested’.