Angelina Jolie is required to submit eight years’ worth of non-disclosure agreements ( NDAs ) in her ongoing legal battle with ex-husband Brad Pitt over their French winery, Château Miraval , a Los Angeles judge has ordered. In April, Jolie’s legal team filed a motion seeking to release communications that they say would prove Pitt would not let her sell her share of the winery to him unless she agreed to an “expansive” NDA. Last week, Pitt’s lawyers asked that Judge Lia Martin compel his ex-wife to submit the NDAs she had signed in the past.
Judge Martin ruled in favor of Pitt’s request on Thursday (16 May). The legal documents state that Jolie, 48, must “produce, within 60 calendar days of this Order, all non-privileged documents in her possession, custody or control that are responsive to” the previous action filed by Pitt. Pitt’s legal team argued that the NDAs were “highly relevant” to Jolie’s “purported justifications for refusing to adhere to her contractual obligations to Pitt” when she sold her shares of the winery to a Russian oligarch named Yuri Shefler .
According to People , a source close to Pitt, 60, called the recent ruling a “significant blow to the credibility” of Jolie’s case and a “strong statement challenging them to match their rhetoric with actual facts, which they consistently have been not been able to do”. Jolie’s attorney, Paul Murphy, told The Daily Mail that they are “more than happy to turn [the NDAs] o.
