{"id":840133,"date":"2026-08-02T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:27:17","slug":"angelina-jolie-and-brad-pitts-200m-miraval-winery-threatened-by-wildfires-amid-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840133\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt\u2019s $200m Miraval winery threatened by wildfires amid legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $233 million winery at the centre of a bitter legal battle between Angelina Jolie<\/a> and Brad Pitt<\/a> is under threat from devastating wildfires.<\/p>\n

Aerial pictures obtained by\u00a0TMZ<\/a>\u00a0on Friday show smoke from the fires sweeping across France edging dangerously close to Ch\u00e2teau Miraval<\/a>, which is located in the village of Correns close to the Provence region.<\/p>\n

\"Brad<\/p>\n

Pitt and Jolie were together since 2004, married in 2014 and split by 2016.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

However, it appears the area remains unharmed thus far. <\/p>\n

The publication reports that firefighters are using helicopters and trucks to battle the nearby flames with water used from a private lake on the property.<\/p>\n

A legal battle between Jolie and Pitt regarding Ch\u00e2teau Miraval has been in existence since the actress first filed for divorce in September 2016, citing irreconcilable differences.<\/p>\n

The couple had purchased Ch\u00e2teau Miraval\u00a0for $28.4 million in 2008; it\u2019s where Pitt proposed to Jolie and eventually where the duo married in secret.<\/p>\n

After their divorce, Pitt sued Jolie in February 2022 over the sale of her shares of the French vineyard.<\/p>\n

Nouvel, a company founded by the\u00a0Maleficent\u00a0actress, reportedly filed a $US250 million (approx. 369.3 million) lawsuit in September 2022 against the\u00a0Bullet Train\u00a0star.<\/p>\n

The claim alleged Pitt \u201cmasterminded a so-far-successful plan<\/a>\u00a0to seize control of\u201d Ch\u00e2teau Miraval.<\/p>\n

The company also accused Pitt of \u201cwaging a vindictive war\u201d against Jolie after she filed for divorce in 2016.<\/p>\n

The messy legal battle is still ongoing, despite the couple\u2019s divorce being finalised in December 2024.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes in France as fires continue to rip through Europe amid extreme summer temperatures.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, it was reported that George Clooney<\/a>\u00a0and his wife\u00a0Amal<\/a> had to evacuate their home in Brignoles, a town in the Southeast of France, with\u00a0their nine-year-old twins<\/a>,\u00a0Alexander and Ella<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The couple purchased the 172-hectare Domaine de Canadel in 2021 for around $USD8.3 million (approximately $11.9 million), eventually\u00a0making the property their primary residence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0People<\/a>, the family wrote a letter to Brignoles Mayor Didier Br\u00e9mond addressing the devastation across Europe.<\/p>\n

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George Clooney\u00a0and his wife\u00a0Amal had to evacuate their home in Brignoles, a town in the Southeast of France, with\u00a0their nine-year-old twins,\u00a0Alexander and Ella.\u00a0GC Images<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Didier, at this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment,\u201d the letter began.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise two things, first we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we\u2019ll be part of making it whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love Brignoles and our friends who live there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $233 million winery at the centre of a bitter legal battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-840133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}