Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are battling over the ownership of a palace in France
Five years after the Hollywood couple split up, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have yet to reach a financial settlement. In a new episode of the ongoing fierce conflict between the two stars, the handsome actor filed a lawsuit accusing his ex-wife of trying to sell her share of the house they bought together in the province of Le Var, in southern France, behind his back.
The house in dispute is an old mansion called "Miraval" with an area of 10 square kilometers, and its value is estimated at 140 million euros (164 million dollars). The palace holds an emotional memory for both parties; Because it was the place where they got married in 2014, in an intimate ceremony that only their six children attended.
Brad Pitt, in his lawsuit filed with the Luxembourg Court, is based on an agreement signed by the two parties, according to which neither of them disposes of his share in the minor without informing the other party in advance, and thus has the advantage in buying his partner's share. Angelina Jolie owns half of the mansion.
The divorced couple had deposited their ownership stakes in a limited liability company, of which Brad owns 60 percent of the shares and Angelina owns the rest. But the actor transferred 10 percent of his shares to his wife, before the divorce, so that they became equal in shares.
According to the complaint papers, for the past four years, Angelina has not stopped putting sticks in the company's wheels, including that she has been postponing the approval of the annual accounts and the appointment of a new manager.
The dispute culminated when Angelina tried to spin the deal and sell her stake through her own company, to prevent her ex-husband from objecting to the deal. Which can be considered a new example from previous examples aimed at evading its legal obligations.
For their part, the actress's lawyers remained silent and have not yet responded to these accusations.
As much as the love story of the famous duo was admired in the past, so that the press used to merge their names together “Brangelina”, the divorce disputes come to distort that ideal image of a beloved star and actress, an ambassador of goodwill, who gained a lot of appreciation thanks to her humanitarian stances and support for the issues of displaced victims wars. Due to her activism, she obtained Cambodian citizenship in 2005.
