Actor Brad Pitt is pressing a Los Angeles judge to order his ex-wife, actress Angelina Jolie, to hand over three years of financial records in the long-running fight over Château Miraval. In a motion filed July 31, 2026, his attorneys argue that Jolie first agreed to produce the material and then reversed course on February 23.
The documents in question span 2017 through 2019, the stretch directly following the couple’s 2016 separation. Pitt’s request reaches all the way to 2021, yet of that span, only those three years have drawn a refusal from Jolie. Post-split earnings are what the actor, 62, says his ex-wife, 51, is keeping from him. 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, producing statements and tax records for 2020 and 2021 alone.
The Deal Pitt’s Lawyers Offered
Pitt’s lawyers floated an off-ramp that would have closed this corner of the discovery dispute without the older paperwork changing hands. Two stipulations were the price of dropping the requests: that no economic pressure weighed on Jolie before January 1, 2020, and that at no point from 2017 to 2019 did Pitt economically coerce her. The offer was rejected, so it now falls to the court to decide how far his attorneys may probe into what she earned after the separation.
Income from those years is relevant, his attorneys contend, precisely because of the explanations she has offered for wanting out of the wine venture. Financial independence from Pitt was one stated aim, according to their motion, which also pointed to her claims that she had largely put her career on hold and forfeited years of pay following the 2016 breakup, and that any leverage he held over her sprang from her finances in that period. Her financial information stays private unless she herself makes it relevant, according to the filing, and Pitt’s camp maintains she has done exactly that. His team also observed that at a June discovery conference she rejected the court’s suggestion that her testimony about earnings and compensation be narrowed.
Jolie Says She Never Alleged Financial Distress
June brought a response from Jolie’s lawyers to the original request by Pitt. “The entire basis for Pitt compelling these answers is a made-up theory that Jolie did not allege,” her attorneys wrote. No claim of financial distress has ever been made, the filing states; what she sought was to untangle her financial life from the spouse she was divorcing. That distinction, her lawyers argue, is categorically different from general financial hardship — and dispositive. Statements of income and taxes for 2020 and 2021 had already been turned over voluntarily, with no obligation to do so, the response added, and reaching back any further would seriously invade her privacy.
Miraval has not seen Jolie since 2016, by her account, and the reason she gives for selling is what her filings describe as physical and emotional abuse — directed at her and their children by Pitt in September 2016. Those allegations Pitt has denied, and he was cleared of them. Child welfare officials cleared Pitt of wrongdoing, while the FBI investigated the incident but declined to file charges. Movies, sponsorships and other post-separation work were also on the list of income details Pitt’s team wanted, according to reporting in August, though her lawyers held that such private earnings shed no light on her decision to sell Miraval.
The $67 Million Sale at the Center
October 2021 is where the dispute begins: Nouvel, the company holding Jolie’s 50 percent interest in the Provence, France, estate, went to Tenute del Mondo in a sale she made for $67 million. The property has been described as a “$500million French estate,” and Pitt’s demand as covering “five years’ worth of financial records.” A Luxembourg-based spirits manufacturer, Tenute del Mondo is affiliated with the Stolichnaya vodka brand and belongs to the corporate group tied to Stoli and to the Russian-born billionaire who controls it, Yuri Shefler. February 2022 brought a lawsuit from Pitt alleging an agreement between the former spouses that barred either one from selling an interest in Miraval to an outside buyer absent the other’s consent. Jolie disputes that any such agreement existed.
A restraining order barring her from selling her shares in the company that owns the château was what Jolie asked a judge to lift when she went to court in July 2021. A buyout of her stake was under consideration by Pitt in 2021, but payment terms, along with noncompete and non-disparagement provisions, were never agreed on by the two sides. Jolie has said the buyout talks collapsed over a proposed nondisclosure agreement (NDA) she considered too sweeping; Pitt’s side maintains an NDA was appropriate to protect the Miraval business.
Rulings Already on the Books
This motion to compel is only the latest 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. A California court then cleared the way on June 17 for depositions involving Stoli representatives to proceed.
Pitt and Jolie bought Miraval in 2008 and married there in 2014. They separated in 2016, jointly owned the property until 2021 and finalized their divorce in December 2024 after a roughly eight-year fight, under terms both sides kept confidential. Trial in the winery case is expected in August 2027.
