Angelina Jolie's attempt to toss out Brad Pitt's $350million lawsuit over their French vineyard is rejected by court | AW592JH | 2024-03-16 20:08:01
It signifies that the previous Hollywood power couple's
ANGELINA Jolie's try and throw out Brad Pitt's lawsuit over their French winery has been rejected by a decide, The U.S. Sun can reveal.
It signifies that the previous Hollywood power couple's acrimonious court battle over the Chateau Miraval vineyard has cleared a key hurdle to go to trial.
The event comes after Angelina, 48, sought in November to overturn a tentative ruling permitting Brad's claims to proceed.
However Decide Lia Martin rejected Angelina's arguments on the LA Superior Courtroom final week and upheld her previous ruling.
Brad, 60, is asking to reverse Angelina's sale in 2021 of her stake within the winery to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler.
He claims the sale was not valid but Angelina's legal professionals argued that his lawsuit is "frivolous, malicious, and a part of a problematic pattern."
The decide final week gave Pitt's authorized group the green mild to sue Angelina for breach of implied-in-fact contract, and breach of quasi-contract.
The As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood star was additionally given the go-ahead to amend an overruled declare for breach of the implied covenant of excellent faith and truthful dealing.
It is the newest authorized blow for Jolie and Stolichnaya vodka proprietor Shefler this yr.
A courtroom in Luxembourg just lately provisionally stripped Shefler of a few of his shares, successfully making Pitt the bulk shareholder.
Pitt and Jolie bought the 1,300-acre Miraval property in Provence, Southern France, in 2008 and married there in 2014.
However Angelina secretly negotiated the sale of her stake to alcohol tycoon Shefler's group for $64 million via her funding firm Nouvel.
She inked the cope with Shefler shortly after a decide granted Brad 50/50 custody of their youngsters as part of their bitter divorce.
It allegedly breached an settlement that she would supply Brad first refusal and never promote without his consent.
The U.S. Sun revealed last month that Brad had accused Shefler, 56, of making an attempt to "bully" and "threaten" him with smears in their battle over Miraval.
The actor claimed in courtroom docs that, after "secretly" shopping for Nouvel, Shefler unilaterally put out a press release saying their "partnership" and then demanded the pair meet for talks.
Brad says he was "finally threatened" if he didn't cooperate.
The legal documents& exclusively& obtained by& The U.S. Sun& said, "Shefler personally took action to foster his supposed partnership with Pitt after the transaction closed, writing Pitt repeatedly to bully him into going alongside."
Pitt sued Jolie& in February 2022 over the sale of Nouvel and its 50% stake in Chateau Miraval to a business group controlled by Shefler.
In September of that yr, Nouvel hit again with a cross-complaint towards Pitt and is in search of $350 million in damages.
Pitt's authorized staff claims that Shefler – whose business empire owns the Stolichnaya& vodka& model – was desperate to money in on the star's "Hollywood movie star."
Shefler claims the courtroom in& California& has no jurisdiction to listen to a full trial on the matter.
His authorized group has previously described Brad as "an actor, not a winemaker" and added that he "offers in illusions, not filth and grapes."
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