Brad Pitt Wins Key Arguments in Miraval Fight with Angelina Jolie, Case Proceeds Toward Trial

A source close to Brad Pitt tells PEOPLE the court ruling "is a clear victory for Brad" in his lawsuit against Angelina Jolie over a French winery they co-owned

By Tommy McArdle  Published on November 11, 2024 03:58PM EST3Comments
Angelina Jolie attends the opening night of "The Outsiders" at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on April 11, 2024 in New York City; Brad Pitt attends the Los Angeles premiere of Columbia Pictures' "Bullet Train" at Regency Village Theatre on August 01, 2022 in Los Angeles, California
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Brad Pitt just secured an important win in his ongoing legal battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over the French winery Château Miraval.

In new court documents filed on Friday, Nov. 8 and obtained by PEOPLE on Monday, Nov. 11, judge Lia Martin of Los Angeles County Superior Court dismissed three demurrers — otherwise known as motions to dismiss — recently filed by Jolie's legal team related to Pitt's own assertions in court that Jolie violated a verbal and written agreement to not sell their stakes in Miraval without both parties' permission. 

The ruling was made in response to Jolie's requests to dismiss three separate causes of action Pitt made in a complaint filed in the case back in April, in which Pitt's attorneys asserted that the former couple's companies, Mongo Bongo and Nouvel, "entered into a written agreement in 2013 to give each other a right of first refusal over any sale of their respective interests in Miraval" and that the written agreement "precluded Mondo Bongo and Nouvel from selling their interests without the other's consent."