Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of choking and hitting her children

Brad Pitt’s Hollywood resurgence that led to an Oscar win a $100 million action blockbusterand a starring role in Damien Chazel‘s newest award player, was simply derailed. Earlier this year, he filed a lawsuit against his former spouse angelina Jolie over ownership of the French winery, which the couple bought in the 2000s. Today, Jolie responded with a counterclaim, claiming that Pitt “choked” and “beat” her children.

Per diversityAccording to the counterclaim, Pitt “choked one of the children and punched another in the face” in 2016. These allegations were previously reported as part of an anonymous lawsuit filed by Jolie accusing Pitt of assaulting her and her children on a private plane. Jolie also told the FBI that Pitt “physically and verbally assaulted her.” However, the FBI did not pursue criminal charges, “leading to Jolie anonymously filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI to obtain documents related to the federal investigation into Pitt,” she writes diversity.

The new suit goes into more detail than previous reports, stating that “Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pinning her against the bathroom wall.” hit the ceiling of the plane multiple times, prompting Jolie to exit the bathroom.” The filing continues:

When one of the children verbally defended Jolie, Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him. Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him. To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane seats, injuring Jolie’s back and elbow. The children rushed in, all trying valiantly to protect each other. Before it was over, Pitt choked one of the children and punched another in the face. Some of the children begged Pitt to stop. They were all afraid. Many cried.

Already in June Pitt sued Jolie for selling her share of the winery, which the couple owed, Château Miraval, to a company indirectly owned by a Russian oligarch. According to the lawsuit, Pitt accused Jolie of trying to “cause harm” by selling to “a hostile competitor eager to take control of Miraval.”

After the plane crash, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt. Last October, she attempted to sell her stake in the winery. Pitt halted the negotiations by forcing Jolie to sign an NDA “that would have contractually barred her from speaking out of court about Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and her children.”

Already in June Pitt sued Jolie for selling her share of the winery, which the couple owed, Château Miraval, to a company indirectly owned by a Russian oligarch. According to the lawsuit, Pitt accused Jolie of trying to “cause harm” by selling to “a hostile competitor eager to take control of Miraval.”

The $250 million lawsuit, filed by the company Jolie founded to manage her stake in the winery, is an even more damning case against Pitt. The lawsuit alleges that Pitt “demanded incriminating and irrelevant terms at the eleventh hour, including a stipulation prohibiting Jolie from speaking publicly about the events that led to the breakup of their marriage.” Jezebel‘s Kylie Cheung notes that Pitt’s team accused Jolie of “desperately trying to find something” and that “this is all for show.”

The countersuit couldn’t come at a worse time for Pitt, who is making such a successful Hollywood comeback that he’s considering retiring. Since winning his long-awaited Oscar for Once upon a time… in Hollywood In 2019 he starred in two of the year’s biggest hits, express train and The Lost City. Later this year he will star in Damien Chazelle’s star-studded early Hollywood epic Babylona film that speaks to the violent bacchanalia of tinsel town.

Pitt is also a producer on several #I also-inspired Oscar players, she said, woman speaks, and (probably) Blondall competing for awards this fall – not to mention the irony against which all three dramatize abuse Women enmeshed in patriarchal systems by powerful men to evade accountability. Although many have accused Blond of misogyny, she said is explicitly about the Harvey Weinstein scandal. 2019, Brad Pitt spoke out about threatening Weinstein for molesting Pitt’s then-girlfriend Gwenyth Paltrow.

“In that moment I was just a boy from the Ozarks on the playground, and that’s how we met things,” Pitt said at the time. “I just wanted to make sure nothing further happened because Paltrow was going to do two [more] movies [with Weinstein]. I think the interesting thing is that we, specifically Hollywood, but the workplace, the dynamics of men and women are being recalibrated, recalibrated in a very good way that’s long overdue. And I think that’s an important story to tell.”