{"id":651590,"date":"2026-05-06T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651590\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:15:10","slug":"angelina-jolie-scores-big-win-over-brad-pitt-in-miraval-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651590\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie scores big win over Brad Pitt in Miraval legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelina Jolie<\/a> has scored a big legal win over Brad Pitt<\/a> in their ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided that Pitt, 62, can\u2019t force Jolie, 50, to turn over a set of private emails<\/a> tied to the sale of her stake in the French winery, siding with the actress that the communications are protected, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.<\/p>\n

The judge denied Pitt\u2019s motion, ruling that he \u201chas not met his burden\u201d to override her claim they are protected. The motion was \u201cdenied without prejudice,\u201d meaning Pitt could raise the issue again later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Angelina Jolie (pictured above in October 2025) scored a legal win over Brad Pitt in their ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval battle. Getty Images<\/p>\n

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that Pitt can\u2019t force Jolie to turn over a set of private emails tied to the sale of her stake in the French winery. (The exes pictured above together in 2014) UK Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Paul Murphy, counsel for Jolie\u00a0in this matter, shared in a statement with Page Six: \u201cThis is an important victory for Ms. Jolie.\u00a0The decision shows that Mr. Pitt was completely out of bounds when he sought access to obviously privileged documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember, he initially demanded 126 privileged documents, but then backtracked to 22, and now Mr. Pitt is\u00a0getting nothing, zero,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cThis is part of\u00a0Mr. Pitt\u2019s\u00a0pattern of demanding control over anything Angelina, including control over her communications with her own attorneys. We are extremely gratified that the both the Court of Appeal and the trial court ultimately put a stop to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A source exclusively told Page Six, \u201cIt\u2019s notable how Jolie has withheld so many documents as privileged. These emails are just some of the evidence in the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jolie sold her 50 percent stake in the Ch\u00e2teau Miraval winery to Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary of the Stoli Group, in October 2021. Abaca \/ AKM-GSI<\/p>\n

The judge sided with the actress (seen above in August 2024) that the communications are protected, according to court documents obtained by Page Six. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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The ruling marks the latest twist in the \u201cF1\u201d star\u2019s long-running push to access certain communications tied to Jolie\u2019s 2021 sale \u2014 including messages with her business team that he has argued are not protected by attorney-client privilege. <\/p>\n

On Oct. 29, 2025, Pitt\u2019s legal team submitted into evidence<\/a> communications to and from Jolie\u2019s team regarding her 2021\u00a0sale of her stake in the French winery the\u00a0former couple co-owned.<\/p>\n

One exhibit was a November 2023 email in which\u00a0Jolie\u2019s lawyers responded to a lawsuit from Pitt, allegedly involving millions in damages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The judge denied Pitt\u2019s motion, ruling that he \u201chas not met his burden\u201d to override Jolie\u2019s claim that her emails are protected. (The two pictured above together in June 2014.) WireImage<\/p>\n

A source exclusively told Page Six, \u201cIt\u2019s notable how Jolie has withheld so many documents as privileged. These emails are just some of the evidence in the case.\u201d (The exes pictured above together in 2011) FilmMagic<\/p>\n

An October 2023 email from Jolie\u2019s team also mentions that Pitt was \u201cseeking ongoing damages<\/a> for alleged harm to Miraval\u2019s ongoing operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Pitt argued that certain messages \u2014 including ones involving Jolie\u2019s business team \u2014 shouldn\u2019t be shielded and should be handed over. The actor asked the judge to force Jolie to turn over emails with her business manager,\u00a0Terry Bird, her British publicists,\u00a0Chloe Dalton\u00a0and\u00a0Arminka Helic, as well as two financial consultants.<\/p>\n

In docs obtained by Page Six at the time, The \u201cFight Club\u201d star stated that the \u201cGirl, Interrupted\u201d actress previously admitted in her own declaration that she regularly had conversations with Bird about \u201call aspects\u201d of her business and professional life, including conversations about legal matters.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cMoneyball\u201d\u00a0actor finalized his long-running divorce from the \u201cMaleficent\u201d star in December 2024, bringing an end to more than eight years of legal proceedings. Getty Images for AFI<\/p>\n

The former couple share six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne. WireImage<\/p>\n

Jolie, however, maintained they were part of a legal strategy and therefore privileged.<\/p>\n

Pitt first filed a 2022 lawsuit\u00a0claiming that his ex-wife had sold her share of Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group, despite a prior agreement that neither would do so unless the other person approved. Jolie denied that agreement and responded by filing a countersuit, claiming the actor-producer has been \u201cwaging a vindictive war against\u201d her.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cMoneyball\u201d\u00a0actor finalized his long-running divorce<\/a> from the \u201cMaleficent\u201d star in December 2024, bringing an end to more than eight years of legal proceedings. The former couple share six children: Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie has scored a big legal win over Brad Pitt in their ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval battle. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9455,3491,49,48,361,4269,5426,362,13444,75,282,337],"class_list":["post-651590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-brad-pitt","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-exes","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-celebrity-news","tag-courts","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}