Brad Pitt won a legal battle against ex-wife Angelina Jolie over their French winery Château Miraval, a new report claimed.
Judge Lia Martin said she was "inclined to" grant Brad’s request, which would require Angelina to turn over all NDAs she has entered into with various third parties since 2014, the year they married, including those signed by her employees.
According to the Daily Mail, Angelina’s counsel disagreed with the judge's tentative verdict. Lawyer Paul Murphy allegedly requested the judge to examine many circumstances, including limiting the distribution of Angelina's NDAs to 2020 to 2021 and excluding any relating to her companies.
"I don't see this as a character question. There may be agreements that [Angelina] entered into with people that may have terms similar or not. The court is not making any findings today about admissibility of the documents,” the judge stated in Los Angeles Court on Thursday, indicating that the final order would be issued by this afternoon.
As previously reported, the famous ex-lovers have been feuding over Angelina's choice to sell her interest in their French winery to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, who owns the Stoli Group, in 2021.
This next step came after Brad's lawyers filed a request in court on April 5 demanding that Angelina reveal the nondisclosure agreements she had forced others sign, Newsweek reported.
His statement came in response to a motion filed by Angelina's lawyers to divulge correspondence that they claim show Brad refused to allow Jolie sell her stake of the vineyard to him unless she agreed to a "more onerous" and "expansive" NDA.
Angelina revealed that she chose not to sell to Brad for $54 million because she believed a non-disparagement agreement was a thinly veiled "unconscionable" attempt to "control" her.
“For Pitt to equate common NDAs covering confidential information employees learn at work, with him attempting to cover up his history of abuse is, frankly, shameful. All she wanted was separation and health. She deserves peace after all these years," Paul previously stated, as per RadarOnline.
Brad refuted allegations of abuse and that his NDA was unduly severe, noting that her lawyer had recommended a far broader, reciprocal non-disparagement provision.
"By way of example only, if Jolie has required others to sign NDAs that were at least as broad as the one she claims was so 'unconscionable' here, it would severely undermine her claimed excuse for terminating negotiations with Pitt and covertly negotiating with Stoli," the lawyer argued.
