Almost eight years after they called it quits, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are still embroiled in a court battle over a French winery.
After submitting a request for further information on the Department of Justice’s investigation into alleged assaults that took place between Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt aboard a 2016 transatlantic trip, Angelina Jolie halted her legal struggle with the department on Thursday.
In records acquired by Fox News Digital, Jolie, 49, petitioned on September 25 to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice “with each party to bear its own fees and costs.” The order was approved by a court the next day.
The “Maria” actress sued the FBI in April 2022, almost six years after the agency had opened an investigation over a purported incident that Pitt, now 60, had with Jolie and their kids in 2016 on a private jet heading from France to Los Angeles.
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Two months after the inquiry concluded and no charges were made against Pitt, she filed for divorce a few days later.
As “Jane Doe,” Jolie filed the case and sought information about the inquiry under the Freedom of Information Act, claiming that her goal was to “protect the children in the family law system.”
The denial to produce the information “continues to hamper, her efforts to obtain for her children necessary ongoing care and medical attention, and has further harmed the children in the family law system,” according to documents she claimed. “Information withheld by DOJ and the FBI contains evidence of the harm,” she said.
Pitt reportedly “grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her” and “choked one of the children and struck another in the face” during an argument in 2016. He doused her and their six kids with “beer and red wine” after that.
As to the records submitted in Los Angeles Superior Court, “A few kids begged Pitt to stop.” “Everyone was afraid. A lot of people were in tears.”
Jolie’s representatives did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The actor from “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” and Jolie haven’t been able to settle a few outstanding legal matters, even though they filed for divorce in 2016 and a judge ruled the former pair to be legally single in 2019.
In 2021, Pitt was granted joint custody of the couple’s children, but Jolie appealed the decision. At this moment, it’s unknown how the two feel about child custody. The only surviving children under eighteen are the twins Vivienne and Knox.
Pitt and Jolie’s remaining children are Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18. All of them are older than 18.
They have been embroiled in a legal dispute regarding Château Miraval, the French vineyard that Jolie and Pitt jointly bought in 2008.
The ex-couple frequented Château Miraval throughout their partnership, having acquired a majority interest in the property in 2008. In 2021, Jolie tried to sell her business, Nouvel, to Tenute Del Mondo, a division of the Stoli Group, in an attempt to transfer her 50% ownership stake in Miraval. Pitt has disputed this transfer, saying the move violates a contract between the two.
Jolie’s firm, meanwhile, said that since her initial divorce filing in 2016, Pitt had been the driving force behind a “vindictive campaign” to “loot” the lucrative enterprise.
According to court records previously acquired by Fox News Digital, Nouvel accused Pitt of “hijacking” Château Miraval and “wasting” the company’s funds on pointless repair projects, including spending $1 million on swimming pool upgrades.
