Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s long-running Château Miraval dispute has taken another turn. The actress is now asking a judge to block what she says is an unnecessary request for years of her private financial records.
Although the former couple finalized their divorce in December 2024, the legal fight over their once-shared French winery continues. This latest disagreement centers on whether Jolie should be required to hand over tax returns and other financial documents dating back to 2017.
Brad Pitt is seeking financial records dating back to 2017, but Angelina Jolie argues the request invades her privacy
According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Pitt’s legal team asked the Los Angeles Superior Court to order Jolie to produce records showing her income and profit participation payments from 2017 through 2019.
His attorneys argued that Jolie had made her finances relevant to the case by claiming she sought “financial independence” after their split. Pitt’s filing also stated that she had “repeatedly placed at issue the financial distress and susceptibility to economic pressure she allegedly faced following her separation from Pitt in 2016,” according to PEOPLE.
Jolie’s legal team strongly disputed that characterization. “The issue is not whether Jolie needed the money — the issue is that she was trying to untangle her life and her finances from her controlling and abusive ex-husband,” her attorneys wrote in a June 26 filing obtained by PEOPLE. “That distinction makes all the difference.”
Her lawyers argued that Jolie never claimed she was facing financial hardship. Instead, they said she simply wanted to separate her financial affairs from Pitt during their divorce.
The filing also noted that Jolie had already provided tax returns and profit participation statements for 2020 and 2021, despite maintaining she wasn’t obligated to do so. Requiring records from 2017 through 2019, her attorneys argued, would amount to “a serious invasion of Jolie’s privacy rights,” according to PEOPLE.
They further accused Pitt’s legal team of relying on “selective quotes and inaccurate paraphrasing” rather than what Jolie had actually alleged in court. “Discovery motion practice should be grounded in what actually appears in the pleadings, not on re-characterizations designed to grab headlines but that have no basis in reality,” the filing stated, per PEOPLE.
Pitt’s attorneys, however, argued that Jolie “cannot now use her alleged financial vulnerability as a sword while simultaneously invoking privacy interests as a shield against scrutiny,” according to PEOPLE.
The dispute is the latest chapter in the former couple’s Château Miraval battle, which began in 2022 after Pitt sued Jolie over the sale of her stake in the winery. Jolie later countersued, alleging Pitt had been “waging a vindictive war against” her since she filed for divorce in 2016.
Last month, a California judge also granted Pitt’s request to depose members of the Stoli Group, whose representatives allegedly know about Jolie’s 2021 sale of her interest in the estate.
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Originally reported by Vanshika Vasundhare Singh on Mandatory
