The actress’ new lawsuit reveals disturbing details about the couple’s 2016 argument on a private jet. She accuses her ex-husband of abusing their two children.
Their romance started as a fairy tale…and finally ended in a high-profile divorce. Since September 20, 2016, the very long and thorny procedure of the separation of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continues to be the main news of the American press. This time, the actress’ new complaint, published this Tuesday, October 4, by American media, accuses her ex-husband of physically assaulting two of their children during a violent argument in September. : 2016 during a private jet flight.
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Suspected beating and strangulation
On September 14, 2016, the entire Jolie-Pitt family, Brad, Angelina and their six children, left Nice for Los Angeles on their plane. According to the American Weekly Directory Us Weeklyactor of World War Z after a fifteen-hour flight in which he “swallowed nothing else Diet Coke“, and would lose his temper with his wife and children.
The subject of the dispute. According to these new court documents, which have been cited by several US media outlets, including: New York Times and: variety, the actor criticized his wife at the time for being “extremely inappropriate” with their offspring. During this fight, he would “pour beer” on his ex-wife and “beer and red wine” on the children.
But the facts are not limited to this. According to Angelina Jolie, the actor would start hitting. He allegedly “grabbed her by the head and shook her” before “pushing her against the toilet wall (on the plane)”.
At that point, “the children intervened,” according to the court document. An enraged Brad Pitt would then “choke one of the kids to death and punch the other in the face.” Some “asked to stop”, others “cried”, we learn.
At the center of this new accusation is the title fight club– assured in the voice of the press release sent to the address this Wednesday, October 5 CNN: that these allegations of violence are “totally false. »
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One legal battle leads to another
If Brad Pitt was released two months later, Angelina Jolie started a divorce process six days after the incident. The couple, who are not yet officially separated, are now continuing their battle in court, specifically to determine custody of their five minor children: twins Knox and Vivienne, 12-year-old Shiloh, 14-year-old Zahara and 17-year-old Pax.
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According to new documents submitted to justice, this bitter dispute would also have affected the sale of the Château Miraval wine estate in the Var, where the couple married and for which they are now separated. In her counterclaim on Tuesday, Angelina Jolie argued that the sale of her stock was driven by her embarrassment over being involved in a liquor business with Brad Pitt, who “is known to have problems with alcohol addiction.” In addition, at the time of this case, the actress assures that her ex-husband would have sought consent “which would contractually prevent him from speaking about the physical and emotional abuse inflicted on her and their children (…).
In June, the actor accused his former partner of having “malicious intentions” against him when he finally sold his shares to a certain Yuri Scheffler. His lawyers cited alleged connections between the Russian oligarch and President Vladimir Putin’s entourage, damaging his image.
Source: Le Figaro
