{"id":1638062,"date":"2022-09-09T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638062"},"modified":"2022-09-09T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T21:36:25","slug":"angelina-jolies-ex-company-accuses-brad-pitt-of-vindictive-war-over-french-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angelina-jolies-ex-company-accuses-brad-pitt-of-vindictive-war-over-french-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie\u2019s ex-company accuses Brad Pitt of \u2018vindictive war\u2019 over French vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fangelina-jolies-ex-company-accuses-brad-pitt-of-vindictive-war-over-french-vineyard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638062&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Jack Queen<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Angelina Jolie\u2019s former investment company accused Brad Pitt of waging a \u201cvindictive war\u201d in a countersuit it filed against her  ex-husband in an acrimonious battle over a French vineyard that the U.S. actors once shared. <\/p>\n<p>Nouvel LLC, Jolie\u2019s former investment company that owns a stake in the Ch\u00e2teau Miraval vineyard, said in its countersuit filed on Tuesday that Pitt had seized control of the winery in southeastern France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since his former wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce from him in 2016, Brad Pitt has been waging a vindictive war against her and Nouvel,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also accused Pitt of squandering the vineyard\u2019s assets on vanity projects and said he \u201clooted\u201d its valuable trademarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPitt has frozen Nouvel out of Chateau Miraval and treats it as his personal fiefdom,\u201d said Nouvel\u2019s countersuit, which was filed in California state court in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Nouvel is seeking at least $250 million in damages for Pitt\u2019s \u201cunlawful and oppressive conduct\u201d. Jolie sold Nouvel last year.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt sued Jolie and Nouvel in the court in February, alleging she unlawfully sold her stake in Ch\u00e2teau Miraval, where the couple, both Oscar winners, were married in 2014, to an international alcohol company. <\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Jolie and Pitt did not immediately respond to inquiries on Thursday. Nouvel\u2019s attorneys declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p>Jolie and Pitt purchased the 1,300-acre Chateau Miraval in 2008. The vineyard is located in the village of Correns, between Marseille and Nice. <\/p>\n<p>Nouvel said in the court filing that Jolie sought to sell her 50% stake to Pitt after their divorce in 2016 but failed to reach a deal because of Pitt\u2019s \u201cunreasonable terms\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Jolie sold Nouvel to alcohol distributor Stoli Group in October 2021, but Pitt would not agree to relinquish his absolute control over it, according to the countersuit. <\/p>\n<p>Pitt said in his lawsuit that he and Jolie had agreed that they would never sell their interests in the vineyard without the other\u2019s consent. The sale violated that agreement and denied Pitt his right of first refusal, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Pitt also said Jolie was not entitled to \u201cunearned windfall profits\u201d from the sale because she had stopped contributing to Chateau Miraval while Pitt \u201cpoured money and sweat equity\u201d into the business. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jack Queen; editing by Tom Hals and Angus MacSwan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/angelina-jolies-ex-company-accuses-2\/actor-brad-pitt-and-actress-director-angelina-jolie-pose-at-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI870XM-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI870XM-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Queen (Reuters) \u2013 Angelina Jolie\u2019s former investment company accused Brad Pitt of waging a \u201cvindictive war\u201d in a countersuit it filed against her ex-husband in an acrimonious battle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}