Attorneys for actor Brad Pitt are pressing a Los Angeles judge to make his ex-wife, actress Angelina Jolie, hand over three years of financial records in the long-running fight over Château Miraval. Their motion, filed July 31, 2026, argues that Jolie first agreed to produce the material and then reversed course on February 23.
The documents in question cover 2017 through 2019, the stretch immediately following the couple’s 2016 separation. Pitt’s broader request reaches through 2021, and of that span, those three years are the only ones Jolie has refused. Withholding information about what she earned once the marriage ended is the accusation Pitt, 62, has leveled at Jolie, 51. Her side had agreed to provide declarations answering two discovery requests, plus profit-participation statements covering 2017 through 2021 — but she later “withdrew her agreement,” his filing says, turning over statements and tax records for 2020 and 2021 alone.
The Offer Pitt’s Lawyers Put on the Table
There was a way to end this corner of the discovery dispute without the older paperwork ever changing hands, Pitt’s lawyers said. The requests would be dropped, they offered, in exchange for a stipulation from Jolie that she faced no economic pressure before January 1, 2020, and that Pitt never economically coerced her at any point from 2017 to 2019. She declined. How far Pitt’s attorneys may dig into her post-separation earnings is now a question for the judge to settle.
Those earnings matter, his attorneys contend, because of the explanations Jolie herself has offered for wanting out of the wine venture. Three of her earlier assertions were cited in the motion: that financial independence from Pitt was what she was pursuing, that the 2016 breakup had led her to largely put her career on hold and give up years of pay, and that any leverage he held over her grew out of her finances at the time. A person’s financial information stays private unless she makes it relevant, the filing says — and Pitt’s camp maintains Jolie has done precisely that. His team also observed that she rejected the court’s suggestion at a June discovery conference that her testimony about earnings and compensation be narrowed.
Jolie Says She Made No Claim of Financial Distress
Jolie’s lawyers answered Pitt’s original request in June. “The entire basis for Pitt compelling these answers is a made-up theory that Jolie did not allege,” her attorneys wrote. Financial distress is something she has never alleged, according to her filing; what she sought, it says, was to untangle her financial life from the spouse she was divorcing. That distinction is one her lawyers describe as categorically different from general financial hardship, and dispositive. She had no obligation to produce income and tax statements for 2020 and 2021, the response added, but did so anyway, and going back any further would seriously invade her privacy.
By her account, Jolie has not returned to Miraval since 2016. Her filings link her decision to sell to conduct in September 2016 that they describe as physical and emotional abuse by Pitt against her and their children — allegations Pitt has denied and of which he was cleared. Reporting in August indicated that details of Jolie’s post-separation income from movies, sponsorships and other work were also being sought by Pitt’s team; her lawyers, for their part, maintained that such private earnings could not explain why she sold Miraval.
A $67 Million Sale at the Heart of the Case
It all goes back to October 2021 and a $67 million transaction: Nouvel — the company through which Jolie held her 50 percent interest in the Provence, France, estate — went to Tenute del Mondo. A Luxembourg-based spirits manufacturer affiliated with the Stolichnaya vodka brand, Tenute del Mondo belongs to the corporate group tied to Stoli and Yuri Shefler, the Russian-born billionaire who controls it. A lawsuit alleged the former spouses had an agreement barring either of them from putting an interest in Miraval before an outside buyer without the other’s consent; Pitt sued in February 2022. Any such agreement, Jolie says, never existed.
Months before that sale, in July 2021, a judge was asked by Jolie to lift a restraining order that blocked her from selling her shares in the company that owns the château. A buyout of her stake was something Pitt weighed in 2021, but payment terms were never settled on by the two sides, nor were noncompete and non-disparagement provisions. A proposed nondisclosure agreement (NDA) she considered too sweeping is what sank the buyout talks, Jolie has said; an NDA was appropriate to protect the Miraval business, Pitt’s side maintains.
Rulings the Court Has Already Issued
The motion to compel is just the newest skirmish. A Los Angeles judge sided with Jolie in a separate discovery fight on May 4, 2026, ruling that she did not have to give Pitt 22 unredacted communications covered by attorney-client privilege. Then, on June 17, a California court cleared the way for depositions involving Stoli representatives to move forward.
The couple bought Miraval in 2008 and married there in 2014. They separated in 2016 and jointly owned the property until 2021. A roughly eight-year fight ended when the divorce was finalized in December 2024, under terms both sides kept confidential. Trial in the winery case is expected in August 2027.
