{"id":609149,"date":"2026-05-28T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609149\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:11:15","slug":"brad-pitt-scores-big-win-in-legal-battle-with-ex-angelina-jolie-over-chateau-miraval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609149\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt scores big win in legal battle with ex Angelina Jolie over Ch\u00e2teau Miraval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Pitt<\/a>\u00a0has scored a legal victory in his ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval battle<\/a> with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to court documents exclusively obtained by Page Six, a Michigan judge ruled on Wednesday, May 20, that lawyers for Stoli\u2019s side improperly blocked testimony during a key deposition tied to the case.<\/p>\n

The court found that former Stoli General Counsel, Todd Culyba, was improperly instructed not to answer 33 questions during a December deposition concerning Jolie\u2019s 2021 sale of her stake in the French winery<\/a> business. <\/p>\n

Brad Pitt has scored a legal victory in his ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie. (Seen above in January 2012) WireImage<\/p>\n

The pair have been entangled in a dispute over the French winery since 2022. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The blocked questions included inquiries about the involvement of Yuri Shelfer \u2014 Stoli\u2019s ultimate beneficial owner \u2014 in Jolie\u2019s sale of her indirect interest in Miraval to the company.<\/p>\n

The judge determined that attorney-client privilege did not extend to the \u201cbusiness aspects\u201d of the deal, which the court said were fair game for questioning.<\/p>\n

As a result, Culyba was ordered to sit for another deposition<\/a> and answer the previously blocked questions, along with related follow-ups, over objections from the Stoli side.<\/p>\n

According to court documents exclusively obtained by Page Six, a Michigan judge ruled that lawyers for the Stoli side improperly blocked testimony during a key deposition tied to the case. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The latest ruling marks another turn in the legal battle between Pitt and Jolie over Ch\u00e2teau Miraval. (Seen above in June 2014) AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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The latest ruling marks another turn in the legal battle between Pitt, 62, and Jolie, 50, over Ch\u00e2teau Miraval.<\/p>\n

Pitt first filed a 2022 lawsuit<\/a>\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. <\/p>\n

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 decision also comes just weeks after Jolie scored a legal victory<\/a> of her own when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied Pitt\u2019s effort to force her to turn over a set of private emails tied to the winery dispute, ruling he had not met the burden to overcome attorney-client privilege claims. <\/p>\n

Pitt filed a 2022 lawsuit claiming Jolie sold her share of Miraval despite a prior agreement that neither would do so unless the other person approved. (Seen above in June 2025) WireImage<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cMoneyball\u201d\u00a0star\u00a0finalized his long-running divorce from the \u201cMaleficent\u201d actress in December 2024. (Seen above in June 2014) AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The motion was \u201cdenied without prejudice,\u201d meaning the \u201cF1\u201d star could raise the issue again later.\u00a0At the time, 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

Pitt previously secured a separate discovery win<\/a> in December 2025 when a judge ordered Jolie to turn over certain unredacted non-attorney communications related to the winery fight.<\/p>\n

Jolie has previously accused Pitt of waging a \u201cvindictive war\u201d against her through litigation, while Pitt\u2019s side has argued the withheld communications are central to understanding the sale.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cMoneyball\u201d\u00a0star\u00a0finalized his long-running divorce<\/a>\u00a0from the \u201cMaleficent\u201d actress in December 2024, bringing an end to more than eight years of legal proceedings. <\/p>\n

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":"Brad Pitt\u00a0has scored a legal victory in his ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval battle with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8078,8077,6491,14196,14193,9400,2755,96,1345,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-brad-pitt","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-breakups","tag-celebrity-divorces","tag-celebrity-exes","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}