Brad Pitt has rеjected Angelina Jolie’s intrusive request to view his messages
Brad Pitt is accusing Angelina Jolie of taking «intrusive» measures in their ongoing winery case.
In the legal battle over Jolie’s sale of the former couple’s French winery Château Miraval, her legal team has requested Pitt disclose third-party communications he had about the 2016 family plane ride that led to Jolie filing for divorce.
Pitt’s lawyers, in new court documents obtained by PEOPLE, call Jolie’s requests «wide-ranging and intrusive,» as well as a «sensationalist fishing expedition.» They asked for her motion to be denied.
They assert that Pitt «voluntarily offered to produce documents sufficient to show everything that occurred on the flight that precipitated the ex-couple’s divorce — the event that Jolie alleges made Pitt’s NDA request so offensive here.»
According to his lawyers, «Jolie, however, rejected Pitt’s compromise and moved to compel his communications with third parties — including his most trusted advisors —
about such sensitive issues as the therapy he voluntarily undertook after the flight incident in an effort to better himself,
‘drug and alcohol testing’ he has allegedly undergone, his alleged ‘overuse or abuse of alcohol,’ and other actions taken in the aftermath of the flight.»
Pitt’s attorneys contended that the winery sale disagreement shouldn’t be affected by his «private,
third-party communications» from that period of time because Jolie wants them in any case to transform the business conflict into a retrial of the couple’s divorce case.
PEOPLE’s request for comment was not immediately answered by a representative for Jolie.
A judge decided in May that Jolie had to turn up eight years’ worth of non-disclosure agreements as part of the winery dispute.
Pitt’s attorneys claim that when she wanted out, he offered to buy her interests of the vineyard, but she turned him down because of an NDA.
