Angie Jolie issued a countersuit against Brad Pitt on Tuesday, revealing new details about what she believes was aggressive behavior on board a private flight she was on with her ex-husband. The lawyers for Ms.
She could not sell half of the company to Pitt because he insisted that she bind to a contract that would have prevented her from speaking out outside of court about Pitt’s physical and psychological abuse and mistreatment of her and their kids.
During a flight from France to California in September 2016, Mr. Pitt, Ms. Jolie, and their kids were describe in the lawsuit as having had a sustained verbal and physical outburst that lasted for several hours. In the petition, Pitt is charge with “choking one of the kids and slapping another on the face,” “pulling Jolie by the head and hitting her.”
As a result of the investigation by federal authorities having jurisdiction over aircraft, no charges were issue in connection with this incident. The divorce petition was issued by Ms. Jolie a few days after the couple fled their home in Los Angeles.
Anne Kiley’s Take on the Issue
Mr. Pitt’s divorce lawyer, Anne Kiley, is quote as saying that although her client had accept responsibility for certain past behaviours, he would not accept responsibility for any conduct he was not responsible for.
Ms. Kiley also revealed that an attorney sent a proposal to settle the divorce case earlier this year to an attorney for Mr. Pitt. As part of the preliminary proposal, the parties stipulate that neither party would make disparaging statements about the other to the general public unless the situation were resolve in court. It was report that after hearing back from Ms. Jolie’s representatives, Mr. Pitt’s team was open to discussing the non-disparagement clause. However, they dropped the topic of non-disparagement after hearing back from Mr. Pitt’s team. “
Both Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt have endured a long, contentious custody battle with each other. Mr. Pitt is filing a lawsuit over the French vineyard he bought with Ms. Jolie more than a decade ago, contributing to the lengthy nature of the divorce proceedings. Earlier this year, Mr. Pitt issued a lawsuit against his ex-wife, alleging she and the Stoli Group had breached his “contractual rights” when they sold her share of the company to a subsidiary without his knowledge or permission.
According to Ms. Jolie complaint, her investment had to be sold elsewhere because of a breakdown in discussion due to his insistence upon a nondisclosure agreement that compel her to sell her investment elsewhere. A federal agent, who investigated the allegations that Pitt mistreated Jolie and her kids during the flight in 2016, alleges that after conducting the investigation, he “conclusively determined that the government had probable cause to prosecute Pitt as a federal criminal for his acts that day,” according to her complaint.
The F.B.I.’s Take on the Issue
A redact F.B.I. report on the case has been report in various media outlets since August. According to this report, The New York Times retrieved the redacted report that says the agent sent “proof of the probable cause statement associated with this occurrence” to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. As per the report, the case agent and the U.S. Attorney’s Office representative have discussed the merits of this investigation after carefully reviewing the evidence.
As a result, the parties have decided not to press criminal charges against each other. In a statement, the Los Angeles office of the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney’s office decline to comment on whether Angelina Jolie was “conflict on whether or not to remain supportive of the accusations.”
Jolie’s Lawyer’s Take on the Issue
The counterclaim by Ms. Jolie state that she had taken enormous measures to prevent the kids from being subject to the same devastation Pitt caused that day. This was the first time that Jolie had to deal with such issues in the open when Pitt sued her for regaining control over her finances and for him to be able to get her back as a business partner. There was an argument between Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt during their 2016 vacation after he believed she was too subordinate to their kids and thought she was too controlling of them.
According to the lawsuit, Pitt is accuse of “pulling Jolie by the head and jostling her, then grasping her shoulders and jolting her again” before pushing her into the bathroom wall. As soon as Pitt finished speaking, he slam the table with a violent impact.
During the alleged assault, Ms. Jolie allegedly grabbed one of the youths who had come to her rescue from behind after Mr. Pitt reportedly charged at him from behind. Mr. Pitt allegedly choked one of the kids during the dispute. According to a complaint issued by the victim, he punched another child.
Media coverage of this flight incident in 2016 was extensive. Still, after that time, the coverage mostly stopped after a year or two. It wasn’t until November of that year that the F.B.I. announce that its investigation was complete and that the trip would not be charge due to the investigation.
In August, Puck News reported that Ms. Jolie was among those who issued a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details about an investigation by the F.B.I. into the movie. Because the F.B.I. report was heavily redact, it is impossible to determine whether or not any of the kids were accuse of being physically abuse by Mr. Pitt.
The Couple’s Past
In 2005, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt first crossed paths while working on their action flick “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” a movie in which they both played married assassins. A wedding was held at Château Miraval in 2008 after the couple purchase it to use it both as a residence and a business location. They have six kids, aged 14 to 21, and they are all adults in the present and are all part of the Jolie/Pitt family. The owners of a famous rosé vineyard in France are currently battling for control of the vineyard due to their divorce.
The Issue
According to a February lawsuit Mr. Pitt issued against Ms. Jolie and her former company, claiming that by selling her part of the business to Tenuti del Mondo, a subsidiary of Stole Group, Ms. Jolie had violated the terms of their contract. As per the lawsuit that he issued, the two of them made a pact that they would never sell their shares without getting permission from each other. Having been inform of Pitt’s contractual rights by Jolie, the actor issue a lawsuit on his behalf, claiming that she secretly sought, then close, the allege transaction, all while “knowingly infringing upon Pitt’s contract rights.”
Mr. Pitt’s former firm, acquired by Stole Group last month, argued in a countersuit that it was not a hostile takeover. In her countersue, Ms. Jolie argued that Pitt’s “acknowledged alcohol addiction” led her to sell her share of the company because of his “acknowledged condition of alcohol addiction.” Pitt, a former husband of Angelina Jolie in 2019, reveal to the Times that he had been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and was seriously committee to sobriety in the day following her divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016. In her papers, Mr. Pitt vehemently contested the existence of any such agreement between the parties, saying that no such agreement existed between the parties, whether there was an oral or written agreement between the parties.
During litigation issued by Mr. Pitt and Ms. Jolie in separate lawsuits, the two parties described diametrically opposite accounts of what led to the collapse of negotiations regarding the acquisition of her share in a company by Mr. Pitt. After Mr. Pitt claims Ms. Jolie reneged on the preliminary agreement last year after the court ruled in favour of his client last year regarding the custody dispute, Ms. Jolie went to Stole Group, Mr. Pitt claims. In response, Ms. Jolie countersued, claiming that Mr. Pitt withdrew from the agreement because she refused to agree to the nondisclosure agreement.
