The lengthy legal battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie over their co-owned winery, Chateau Miraval , is set to go to trial next year. According to the latest development in the ongoing battle between the couple, a judge allowed Pitt to move forward to court after he found a basis in the actor's claims that a verbal agreement with his ex-wife was binding. The former Hollywood power couple, who once shared ownership of the French estate, are now at odds over Jolie’s sale of her shares to a Russian billionaire, a deal that Pitt claims 'violated' their agreement.
Pitt has argued that they had the understanding to avoid unilateral actions affecting Chateau Miraval’s ownership. To settle the dispute, he had reportedly asked Jolie to reverse the sale of her stake, a proposal she did not accept. The ruling was made in response to Jolie's requests to dismiss three separate causes of action Pitt made back in April, in which his attorneys asserted that the former couple's companies, "entered into a written agreement in 2013 to give each other a right of first refusal over any sale of their respective interests in Miraval" and that the written agreement "precluded Mondo Bongo and Nouvel from selling their interests without the other's consent.
" Reports stated that Jolie contended that Pitt was offered the opportunity to buy her stake but declined to proceed unless she agreed to keep silent about alleged domestic abuse. Pitt’s camp, however, has maintained that this was a "bu.
