Angelina Jolie’s fight with Brad Pitt over a French winery has turned into a fight over three years of her private financial records, and the judge was not persuaded.
A judge on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, refused to hand Pitt three years of private financial records belonging to his ex-wife, and Jolie’s attorney, Paul Murphy, responded by accusing Pitt of harassment and of trying to control both Jolie and the story being told about their case in the long-running dispute over Château Miraval.
Pitt’s side had pressed for documents covering 2017 through 2019, including any compensation from entertainment deals. His lawyers argued that Jolie’s reasons for deciding to sell her stake in the Provence winery might be illuminated by the figures.
Sufficient reason to override Jolie’s privacy interests was something Pitt had not shown, the judge found. Her legal team confirmed it does not intend to introduce evidence about her income from those years.
A Setback, Not the Final Word
The ruling does not necessarily close the question. Should Jolie’s position shift during testimony and those earnings become legally relevant, the judge said, Pitt may renew his motion for records of her income or financial condition from 2017 to 2019.
Murphy told TMZ the motion should never have been filed, and he argued Pitt can mount a defense without reaching into his ex-wife’s private finances.
“Mr. Pitt’s unyielding demand for harassing information is just the latest manifestation of his attempts to control her and the narratives in this case. What Angelina wants and has always wanted is to untangle her personal and financial life from her ex-husband,” Murphy said.
“Rather than do the right thing and buy her out at an agreed price, Mr. Pitt at the last minute tried to use her exit from Miraval as leverage to force her [to] sign an NDA to cover up his abuse of her and their children. That is what this case is about, not her personal income from five years before she sold her interest,” Murphy continued.
Pitt has denied Jolie’s abuse allegations. The motions over her finances began after Jolie claimed she had to put her acting career on hold following the divorce and forwent years of compensation.
Jolie reportedly opposed turning over records from 2017 to 2019 and then agreed to provide records for only 2020 and 2021. Pitt’s lawyers wrote in earlier filings that she needed to sell her winery share to obtain financial independence, and that she rejected a proposal to confirm she was not under economic pressure before 2020 — specifically, a confirmation that Pitt had not exerted economic coercion on her.
From “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” to Court
Tenute del Mondo, the wine arm of Stoli Group, bought Jolie’s Miraval interest in October 2021, ending her direct ownership of the French estate. A lawsuit from Pitt followed, claiming the two had agreed not to sell their respective interests without consulting each other, and the litigation has continued despite the couple’s 2024 divorce settlement.
The pair met on the set of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” in 2004, when Pitt was still married to “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston. A separation announcement from Pitt and Aniston came in January 2005. Jolie and Pitt got engaged in 2012, then married at Château Miraval in 2014. An incident on a private plane preceded her divorce filing in 2016, and a judge declared them legally single in 2019.
Why She Waited for the Twins
Jolie and Pitt share six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne — and several of them have distanced themselves from their father, with some no longer using his surname. The youngest, twins Knox and Vivienne, have now reached 18 — a milestone Jolie has pointed to before. She told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2024 that she could leave once the twins turned 18, and that she lives in Los Angeles “because I have to be here from a divorce.”
Her Los Angeles mansion has since sold for $24.75 million, according to an Oct. 18 report, about $5 million below its asking price.
The Miraval case remains live. Jolie’s older financial records could still come within Pitt’s reach — but only if her own testimony makes that possible.
