{"id":115901,"date":"2024-08-03T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/angelina-jolie-claims-brad-pitt-tried-to-force-nda-to-cover-abuse\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:17:18","slug":"angelina-jolie-claims-brad-pitt-tried-to-force-nda-to-cover-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/angelina-jolie-claims-brad-pitt-tried-to-force-nda-to-cover-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie Claims Brad Pitt Tried to Force NDA to Cover Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Angelina Jolie<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s ongoing legal battle with ex Brad Pitt<\/strong><\/a> is getting more heated, as she alleged that the actor tried to force her to sign an $8.5 million non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to cover up \u201cyears of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

In new court documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on July 25 and obtained by Us Weekly<\/em>, Jolie\u2019s attorneys argued their support for Pitt, 60, to disclose \u201cprivate, third-party communications\u201d he had about their family\u2019s 2016 plane ride that resulted<\/a> in Jolie, 49, filing for divorce. Pitt\u2019s legal team previously responded to the motion, calling the separate filing asking for his personal communications \u201cwide-ranging and intrusive.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the July 25 docs, Jolie\u2019s legal team said the actress \u201cwas not acting with malice and the intent to hurt Pitt in response to any custody ruling\u201d when she sold her share of Ch\u00e2teau Miraval \u2013 the former couple\u2019s winery \u2013 in 2021. (Pitt sued Jolie over the transaction in 2022, claiming that she illegally sold her shares of the French company. The exes have also been embroiled in a years-long custody battle over their kids: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.)<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, it was Pitt who refused to buy her interest unless he received his newly expanded NDA, enforceable by an $8.5 million holdback specifically designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up,\u201d read the docs.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRelated: <\/span>Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Battle of the Winery: Everything to Know<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tBattle of the exes. Brad Pitt filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife Angelina Jolie in February 2022, claiming that she illegally sold her shares of Miraval, a French company including a chateau and vineyard that the former couple purchased together in the south of France. The Mr. and Mrs. Smith stars first gained a controlling [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jolie noted in her motion that \u201cabuse survivors are often discredited and rarely believed on their word alone.\u201d She claimed Pitt wanted to \u201cbury\u201d his \u201cown hurtful emails demonstrating his past abuse of Jolie and their children\u201d when the Offer of Proof was considered for their past testimony. \u201cIn response, he demanded Jolie sign the expanded NDA to prevent her from ever speaking of it,\u201d said Jolie\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n

The Once Upon a Time \u2026 In Hollywood<\/em> actor maintained that he did not use the NDA in an attempt to cover up any alleged abuse, per the court documents.<\/p>\n

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In a May filing obtained by Us<\/em>, a judge ruled that Jolie must produce all NDAs she agreed to with third parties over an eight-year period from 2014 to 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue of NDAs has become a key battleground in the dispute over the award-winning Ch\u00e2teau Miraval business,\u201d a member of Pitt\u2019s legal team\u00a0Us<\/em>. \u201cJolie claims she backed out of selling her stake to Pitt after he asked her to sign an \u2018unconscionable\u2019 privacy agreement as part of the business deal \u2013 a defense Pitt insists is undermined by her own routine use of NDAs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cJolie\u2019s defense is a cover story she cooked up to \u2018rationalize\u2019 the decision to sell her stake\u201d in Miraval.<\/p>\n

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