Brad Pitt is being sued for embezzling money from Chateau Miraval by the company his ex-wife Angelina Jolie is trying to sell her shares of. Actor Troy, 60, and Maleficent star, 48, have been embroiled in a bitter legal dispute surrounding their co-ownership of the $500 million French winery they originally bought in year 2008. And now Pitt is being sued again by Tenute del Mondo, after he previously sued the company because he said they did not have the right to receive Jolie’s shares in the winery. In newly obtained court documents, Tenute filed a lawsuit against Pitt and his company, Mondo Bongo, alleging that they used Chateau Miraval as a ‘personal piggy bank’ to fund projects. their sentences for many years.
One such project was a swimming pool used only by Pitt, which Tenute claims the actor spent more than $1 million to renovate. Other ventures include a recording studio, a cosmetics line and a gin brand. “Pitt caused millions of his funds to be spent on projects that benefited him personally,” the lawsuit alleges. It goes on to state, ‘Worse yet, Pitt has diverted the company’s assets to his side businesses – including a recording studio called Studio Miraval, a cosmetics line called Le Domaine and a label gin brand called The Gardener.’
‘This theft put millions of dollars into the pockets of Pitt and Mondo Bongo’s business ventures, and diverted them dividends and debt repayments that would otherwise have been paid to Tenute as one of the last owners of Chateau Miraval.’ Tenute accused Pitt and his company of concealing their financial activities and hindering their involvement in the winery.
‘Pitt and Mondo Bongo have turned Chateau Miraval into their own piggy bank. They engaged in a series of transactions using Chateau Miraval’s funds to deprive Tenute of profits and loan repayments.’ They claim Brad has made it nearly impossible for them to get involved with the winery as he continues to fight Jolie in court. Tenute – the winemaking subsidiary of international beverage company Stoli Group – is demanding large damages.
Meanwhile, sources close to Brad told TMZ that Tenute’s interest in the Chateau Miraval wine business stems from ‘his name recognition’, which they are currently trying to do. trying to ‘smear’. Insiders assert that Chateau Miraval’s success is directly attributable to Pitt’s leadership, and that allegations of misuse of funds are false, as they would undermine the winery’s value.
Last month, Jolie sparked tensions with Pitt as their fight over Chateau Miraval got even worse when her lawyers called his request for an NDA “abusive” just days after she accused him of trying to “bleed her out” in their bitter ongoing legal case. battle. Pitt recently filed a motion to see Jolie’s NDA with any third party and now her lawyers call the move ‘expensive’, ‘wasteful’, ‘unreasonable’ and ‘abusive’. use’ according to court documents obtained by Page Six on Friday.
The newspaper reported that Jolie argued in court documents that her ex asked her to sign an extended NDA in their ‘scuttled’ deal over the winery because he was trying to prevented her from speaking about allegations that he abused her and her children. including a flight from France to California in 2016. Early last month, Jolie’s claims through her lawyer were reported: ‘While Pitt’s history of physical abuse towards Jolie began well before the family’s plane trip from France to Los Angeles in September 2016, this flight marked the first time he physically abused the children. also.’
Now, according to Page Six, the actress is claiming in new court documents that turning over other NDAs she signed would be an invasion of privacy to other parties — which notes publication presumably studios, brands and employees – as it revealed ‘contracts that included Jolie’s compensation or compensation she paid to third parties’. Jolie’s side also asserted that Pitt wanted her to sign an unfairly ‘extensive’ and ‘extensive’ NDA, ‘covering up Pitt’s personal misconduct, whether related to Miraval or not’, to in exchange for her selling her shares to him.
Their deal eventually fell through when Jolie claimed it was due to NDA and the actress proceeded to sell her shares to a subsidiary of the Stoli Group. Pitt responded by opposing the Stoli deal while accusing her of unfairly selling his shares. Far from draining her money, a DailyMail.com investigation revealed that Jolie’s relationship with Pitt made her nearly $100 million richer. That money came from loans, child support, gifts and the millions she made from selling a 50% stake in the property at the center of the dispute – Chateau Miraval – 10% of It was a gift from Pitt.
The couple’s former French home, a 1,200-acre estate and vineyard, was worth $60 million when they bought it in 2008. Now, thanks to Pitt’s efforts and investment in the business, it is worth a staggering $164 million. And, while Jolie appears impoverished in her latest court filings, sources close to Pitt indicate that the Tomb Raider star has enough money to sign a recent deal to take over 57 Great Jones Street , a unique space in Manhattan once owned by Andy. Warhol and was previously rented for $60,000/month.
Jolie signed an eight-year lease for the 6,600-square-foot space to use as a store to promote her fashion brand, Atelier Jolie. Pitt had initially sought to buy out Jolie himself to keep the winery ‘in the family’ if she wanted to opt out. But the deal collapsed amid acrimony. Pitt accused Jolie of violating their purchase agreement when she sold her 50% stake in Chateau Miraval to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler in 2021 without her ex-husband’s consent.
According to Jolie, Pitt’s previous offer to sell it for $54 million failed due to his demands. When the couple bought Miraval in 2008, Pitt held 60% of the winery and real estate business while Jolie held 40%. Pitt poured millions into real estate, riding a wave of commissions and expanding his business in an effort to increase sales by 300%. Soon, the property they bought for an estimated $60 million was worth nearly $164 million.
At the time of their wedding, Jolie ‘stopped investing’ according to previously filed court documents – something she has denied. However, Pitt transferred 10% of his shares to her as a wedding gift in December 2013 ‘for the sum of 1 Euro [never paid]’ so that by the time they got married in August 2014, they are 50/50 equal partners. Meanwhile, as the battle to sell the winery gets underway, Pitt has won a number of legal victories in recent months, including a key ruling in Luxembourg that gave him control of the vineyard. award-winning Chateau Miraval pending further hearings. Just last month, he scored another victory when the LA Superior Court dismissed Jolie’s claim that his lawsuit was ‘frivolous, malicious and part of a problematic matter’.
