Nearly a decade after Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ended their relationship, one of the most complicated pieces of their shared life remains unresolved: the French winery they once owned together.

Pitt, 62, is once again asking a court to require Jolie, 51, to turn over financial and property records as their long-running legal battle over Château Miraval continues. His attorneys argue that information about Jolie’s Hollywood earnings and other professional income could be important in determining why she sold her ownership stake in the winery in 2021.

Jolie’s legal team sees the request very differently.

Her attorneys have characterized Pitt’s effort to obtain those records as an excessive intrusion and another example of what they describe as controlling behavior by her former husband.

The disagreement has added another layer to a dispute that has grown far beyond the business transaction that originally triggered it.

Pitt Wants Records From the Years Before the Winery Sale

In newly filed legal documents, Pitt’s attorneys asked a judge to compel Jolie to produce financial information covering the period between the couple’s 2016 separation and her 2021 sale of her stake in Château Miraval.

The requested material includes records involving payments for movie roles, brand sponsorships and other professional work Jolie performed before she said she needed to sell her interest in the winery in order to become financially independent.

Pitt’s lawyers argue that those records could help establish whether Jolie’s financial circumstances were consistent with the way she has described the events surrounding the sale.

They contend that without the documents, a jury could be left with an incomplete understanding of the dispute.

During the period in question, Jolie continued working in Hollywood and appeared in projects including Maleficent, Eternals and Those Who Wish Me Dead.

But Jolie’s lawyers insist Pitt is focusing on the wrong question.

Jolie’s Team Calls the Request an ‘Overreach’

The extent of the disagreement became clearer through transcripts from an informal discovery conference held on July 8.

During that proceeding, one of Jolie’s lawyers described Pitt’s pursuit of her financial documents as a major overreach and argued that it amounted to further controlling conduct.

Jolie’s attorney also connected the dispute to Pitt’s previous request that she sign a nondisclosure agreement as part of discussions involving their winery interests. According to her legal team, Jolie viewed that proposed agreement as abusive and controlling.

Her lawyers have argued that the years following the couple’s breakup cannot be understood purely as a financial story.

They say Jolie spent roughly five years placing much of her career on hold as she focused on helping her family recover from what her attorneys describe as significant physical and emotional abuse involving Pitt.

Pitt has not been charged in connection with those allegations.

The Winery Became a Battleground Years After Their Split

Pitt and Jolie were together for 12 years and married for two before separating in 2016.

They share six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox.

Although they separated a decade ago, their divorce itself took years to complete. The former couple finalized it in December 2024.

Their dispute over Château Miraval, however, continued.

The property in southern France had once represented a very different chapter in their relationship. Pitt and Jolie shared ownership of the estate and its wine business during their years together.

In 2021, Jolie sold her stake to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group.

That transaction became the center of the current legal fight.

Pitt sued Jolie in 2022, alleging that the former spouses had previously agreed neither would sell their interest in the winery without the other person’s approval.

Jolie denies that she needed Pitt’s permission to complete the sale. She later filed a countersuit accusing him of pursuing what she characterized as a vindictive campaign against her.

The NDA Dispute Remains Central

One of the most contentious questions surrounding the case involves why negotiations for Pitt to buy Jolie’s winery stake fell apart before she sold it elsewhere.

Jolie’s attorneys have said Pitt would not complete a buyout unless she agreed to a nondisclosure provision.

Her team argues that the proposed NDA was intended to prevent her from speaking about allegations of abuse involving a 2016 private plane flight with their family.

Jolie has alleged that Pitt was verbally and physically abusive during that flight.

Authorities investigated the incident, but Pitt was not charged, and Jolie did not press charges.

The competing interpretations of that NDA have become crucial to the larger lawsuit.

For Jolie’s side, the dispute is about her effort to disentangle her personal and financial life from an ex-husband whom her lawyers characterize as controlling.

For Pitt’s side, the focus should remain on the business agreement governing Château Miraval and whether Jolie was entitled to sell her stake without his consent.

Pitt’s Lawyers Say the Case Is Drifting Away From the Winery

Pitt’s latest legal filing reflects concern that the lawsuit is expanding beyond the original business dispute.

His legal team argues that Jolie is increasingly framing the case around the breakdown of their relationship in 2016 and the family conflicts that followed.

Pitt’s attorneys indicated that they may try to limit arguments concerning the broader family dispute and keep the trial centered more narrowly on the ownership and sale of Château Miraval.

Jolie’s team has challenged that approach.

In a June filing, her lawyers disputed the idea that she had made financial hardship the centerpiece of her case.

They argued that the critical issue was not whether Jolie desperately needed money from the sale, but rather that she wanted to separate her finances and business interests from Pitt after their relationship ended.

That distinction now sits at the heart of the fight over whether her earnings records should be disclosed.

If Pitt’s argument prevails, details about Jolie’s movie salaries, sponsorship income and other financial matters from the years before the Miraval sale could become part of the evidence.

If Jolie succeeds in resisting the request, the case may proceed without that broader examination of her finances.

A Once-Shared Dream Has Become Their Lasting Legal Conflict

The dispute is especially striking because Château Miraval was once closely associated with Pitt and Jolie’s life as a couple.

Years after their romantic relationship ended and even after their divorce became final, the property continues to tie them together in court.

Their lawyers now disagree not only over what happened to the winery, but over how much of the former couple’s personal history should be allowed into the case.

Pitt’s side wants financial records it believes could challenge Jolie’s explanation for selling.

Jolie’s side argues those demands miss the larger reason she wanted to leave the business behind in the first place.

What began as a disagreement over a 2021 sale has therefore become something much broader — a battle over contracts, money, privacy, allegations from the end of a marriage and competing versions of why two former partners could no longer remain financially connected.

Their divorce may be finished.

The fight over the life they once built together is not.