A Russian businessman has been sued by Brad Pitt’s ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, for selling her share in the French vineyard they acquired together and where they were married.
By selling her stake to Stoli Group, a spirits company run by tycoon Yuri Shefler, Pitt claims Jolie violated their agreement not to sell Château Miraval shares without his approval in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday.
A majority stake in Miraval, in the town of Correns in south-east France, between Marseille and Nice, was purchased by the Oscar-winning couple in 2008. In 2014, they were married there.
58-year-old Brad Pitt claimed he had “poured money and sweat equity” into creating Miraval one of the world’s best-known manufacturers of rosé wine, with annual revenues reaching $50 million (£36.8 million).
“Unearned windfall earnings” and “gratuitous injury” were among the charges he leveled against Jolie, 46.
Requests for response from attorneys for Jolie’s team were not immediately returned on Friday.
Claims in the complaint include that Jolie informed Pitt in January 2021 that she had made a “difficult choice” to sell her Miraval interest and that she could no longer operate an alcohol firm due of her own reservations. Pitt and Jolie tried to buy each other out for five months, but they broke off, the complaint said.
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