Angelina Jolie is challenging Brad Pitt‘s latest attempt to obtain her financial records from the past, escalating their long-running legal fight over Château Miraval.
According to a court filing submitted on June 26 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Jolie asked the judge to deny Pitt’s request for access to her tax returns and other financial documents covering 2017 through 2019. The move came after Pitt filed papers on June 18 seeking the records because Jolie had allegedly made her financial “vulnerability” a key point of her case.
Jolie’s legal team rejected that argument, maintaining that Pitt has repeatedly misrepresented her position throughout the litigation. In the filing, her attorneys said the dispute has never been about financial hardship but about her desire to “untangle her life and her finances from her controlling and abusive ex-husband.”
Pitt’s lawyers, however, contend that Jolie herself placed her finances at the center of the case by claiming she sought “financial independence” and had decided she “needed to sell her interest in Château Miraval” to achieve it. They argued that those assertions make her financial records relevant to the lawsuit.
Jolie’s attorneys pushed back, saying she “has never alleged that she was in financial distress.” They also accused Pitt’s legal team of using “selective quotes and inaccurate paraphrasing” against Jolie instead of accurately reflecting what she has argued in past court filings.
In Pitt’s filing, his team of lawyers asserted that Jolie had “repeatedly placed at issue the financial distress and susceptibility to economic pressure she allegedly faced following her separation from Pitt in 2016. Yet there is substantial reason to doubt this allegation.”
They also described Jolie as “one of Hollywood’s most prominent and highly compensated actresses, with income streams from major studio projects and profit-participation rights” during the period in question.
Jolie’s latest filing states that she has already provided tax returns and profit-participation records for 2020 and 2021, despite being under no obligation to do so. Requiring her to hand over documents from the earlier years, her attorneys argued, would be “a serious invasion of Jolie’s privacy rights.”
Pitt’s legal team, in turn, countered that her financial records remain relevant because of the arguments she has raised in the case. “Jolie has made her financial condition central to her cross-claim and defense. She cannot now use her alleged financial vulnerability as a sword while simultaneously invoking privacy interests as a shield against scrutiny,” they noted.
The ongoing dispute dates back to February 2022, when Pitt sued Jolie over Château Miraval. He alleged that she breached their agreement by selling her stake in the French winery without his approval. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, and it was finalized in December 2024.