Angelina Jolie’s ex-wife, Brad Pitt, filed a complaint against her ex-husband on Tuesday, including new details about what she described in court papers as abusive behavior by him on a private plane in 2016 that led to the dissolution of their marriage.
In a lawsuit in Los Angeles, which was filed as part of a legal battle over a winery that the two prominent Hollywood actors owned together, Jolie’s lawyers stated that negotiations to sell her stake in the plant collapsed, because it included clauses requiring her to sign a “non-disclosure agreement that would have prevented her from speaking out of court.” on the physical and emotional abuse of Pete, her and their children.
The legal battle file describes Pete’s physical and verbal abuse of his wife and children, when the family traveled from France to California, according to a report by the newspaper.The New York Times“.
Julie’s file says: “Pett strangled one child and hit another child’s face” and “grabbed Julie by the head and shook her.”
On one occasion, he says, “he poured a beer house on Julie; another time, he poured beer and red wine on the children.”
Federal authorities, which have jurisdiction over the flights, investigated the incident but refused to file criminal charges.
Days after the trip, Jolie filed for divorce.
For her part, Brad Pitt’s lawyer, Ann Kelly, said her client accepted responsibility for some things but “would not take responsibility for things he did not do.”
She also said that during this year’s divorce settlement negotiations, which were separate from negotiations over the winery, Jolie’s lawyer sent a motion to Pete’s attorneys to try to settle the case, and that one of the proposals stated that neither party could make a derogatory comment about the other in public, except in court.
The legal battles between Jolie and Pitt have spanned years, as they battled for custody of their children.
And recently, a lawsuit was added by Pete over the French winery, Château Maraval, which the pair bought more than a decade ago.
Pitt’s lawsuit, filed this year, accused his ex-wife of violating his “contractual rights” when she sold her stake in the company to a subsidiary of the Stoli Group without his consent.
While Jolie said she sold her stake after negotiations broke down between their lawyers, due to “non-disclosure demands”.
An FBI investigation that looked into Jolie’s complaint that Pitt physically assaulted her and their children on the plane in 2016 concluded that “the government has probable cause to charge Pitt with a crime for his conduct that day.”
But after reviewing the document, a representative of the US Attorney’s Office discussed the merits of this investigation with the case’s attorney and “it was agreed by all parties that criminal charges in this case would not be pursued due to several factors.”
In November 2016, the FBI released a statement saying it had closed its investigation into the flight and no charges had been filed.
The 2016 trip was the subject of numerous media reports, shortly after it happened.