After an exhausting eight-year legal battle, there is finally a truce between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The two actors have signed a divorce agreement, but the parties' lawyers continue to be on the warpath: the dispute over Chateau Miraval, the $164 million French estate and winery purchased jointly by the former couple and long at the center of a dispute after Jolie sold her share in 2021 to Tenute nel Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group that owns highly prized labels such as Masseto, Luce and Ornellaia, remains open.
Angelina is "exhausted" but "relieved" that this phase of the battle is over: "She wants to focus on finding peace and healing for her family," the actress's lawyer James Simon told People, while a source close to Brad Pitt confided to the New York Post that it was the actor's new partner, Ines de Ramon, who convinced the Oscar winner to sign: "She wants to have a life with him, maybe even children, without the shadow of the War of the Roses hanging over her head."
Brad is 61, Angelina turns 50 this year . Former UN ambassador for refugees and most recently Oscar-winning star of the film Maria about Maria Callas, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 and since then the couple had clashed heavily over child custody and other financial disputes, first and foremost the one still open over Chateau Miraval: Brad wanted to buy his share but Angelina had backed out "vindictively" and "illegally", according to the actor, ruining the magic of what he considered "a second home".
Pitt and Jolie got together 20 years ago after love at first sight on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith that ended his marriage to Jennifer Aniston. Brad was marrying for the second time, Angie for the third time, having already married Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. In 2014, after years of living together, they said "yes" at Chateau Miraval, followed, just two years later, by the announcement of their separation. The actress had accused Pitt of being violent towards her and their six children (three adopted) Maddox, 22, Zahara, 19, Pax, 20, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16, during a trip on a private jet from Europe.
