Brad Pitt's Big Win: Court Orders Angelina Jolie To Submit Unedited Documents Over Chateau Miraval War

Brad Pitt has scored a big win in his ongoing legal battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over the shared French winery, Château Miraval. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered Jolie to hand over previously withheld, unedited communications tied to the dispute, marking a significant development in the years-long case. The ruling was issued on Wednesday, December 17, a day prior to Pitt’s 62nd birthday. Granting Pitt’s motion to compel discovery, the court directed Jolie, 50, to produce complete versions of select communications that had earlier been partially redacted on the grounds of privilege.“The Court orders Jolie to produce in full, within 45 days of this Order, unredacted versions of the communications exchanged between non-attorneys

in the 22 documents identified on Jolie’s February 14, 2025 privilege log with the Document ID numbers set forth in the Appendix to this Order,” the court document stated.

According to a source quoted by People, Pitt’s legal team believes the emails could prove crucial to his case. “The emails would prove Jolie has been disingenuous since the start regarding her true intentions about selling her share of the business to Stoli,” the source claimed.Also Read: Highest Grossing Hollywood Films 2025: F1, Mission Impossible, Jurassic World Rebirth Took Over Indian Box OfficePitt filed the lawsuit in 2022, alleging that Jolie violated an agreement between them by selling her stake in Château Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group, without his consent. Pitt maintains that both parties had agreed not to sell their shares without mutual approval.Jolie has consistently denied that any such agreement existed. In response, she filed a countersuit, accusing Pitt of “waging a vindictive war against” her in the aftermath of their separation.Her legal team has further argued that Pitt refused to buy out her share of the winery because she declined to sign a non-disclosure agreement. According to Jolie’s lawyers, the NDA was allegedly “designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up.” The allegation relates to a 2016 private jet flight during which Pitt was accused of verbal and physical abuse toward his family. Pitt was not charged following investigations, and Jolie chose not to press charges at the time.Recent court filings have revealed that Pitt is seeking $35 million in damages, tied to Jolie’s 2021 sale of her stake in the winery. On October 29, Pitt’s legal team submitted communications exchanged with Jolie’s representatives as part of their evidence.One exhibit included a November 2023 email from Jolie’s lawyers addressing Pitt’s damages claim. “The burdensome nature of any production is a matter of Mr. Pitt’s own creation—he is suing Ms. Jolie for $35 million in damages,” her lawyers wrote. “As a result, he has to incur the expense of producing the documents that will show (or not show) those damages.”Another email from October 2023 stated that Pitt was “seeking ongoing damages for alleged harm to Miraval’s ongoing operations.” Jolie’s team also pointed to what they described as “Pitt’s continuing refusals to produce documents relating to the reasons why he needed his four-year NDA covering his personal misconduct,” arguing that these communications were central “to the heart of our case and must be produced.”Pitt and Jolie, who share six children — Maddox, 24; Pax, 22; Zahara, 20; Shiloh, 19; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17 — finalised their divorce in December 2024.