Angelina Jolie’s lawyer accuses Brad Pitt of demanding ‘harassing information’ and attempting to control the actress

Angelina Jolie’s lawyer has accused Brad Pitt of attempting to ‘control’ her and the narrative of their legal showdown after she scored a courthouse victory. 

Pitt’s requests to have Jolie ordered to produce financial records were denied by a judge in a tentative ruling on Tuesday – however the actor, 62, was granted the ability to renew the motions should her ‘income or financial condition’ from 2017 to 2019 arise during her testimony, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Mail. 

The motions were filed after Jolie, 51, claimed to have ‘largely put her career on hold’ and forwent ‘years of compensation’ following their 2016 separation.

Jolie’s lawyer did not mince his words when responding to the ruling in a statement provided to The Daily Mail – where he slammed Pitt’s ‘unyielding demand for harassing information’ from Jolie. 

‘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. 

‘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.’

Angelina Jolie’s lawyer did not mince his words after a judge denied Brad Pitt’s motion to have his ex produce financial records; pictured 2012

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives and a lawyer for Pitt for comment but has not yet heard back. 

Pitt’s legal team has been seeking information about Jolie about her finances after she alleged to have gone ‘years’ without compensation following their split. 

Jolie had allegedly agreed with Pitt to produce financial records from the years 2017 to 2021, but apparently only supplied documents for the years 2020 and 2021.

His lawyers recently asked the court to order Jolie to produce records showing her income from 2017 to 2019, alleging she had been withholding specific financial documents despite agreeing to produce said records. 

‘Jolie’s Cross-Complaint alleges that, after the parties’ 2016 separation, she put her career on hold, ‘forgoing years of compensation’; that Pitt possessed ‘substantial leverage and control’ over her due in part to her financial condition at that time; and that by 2019 she concluded she needed to sell her interest in Miraval to obtain ‘financial independence’ from him,’ Pitt’s filing read in court documents previously reviewed by The Daily Mail.

‘On February 23, 2026, Jolie withdrew both her agreement to provide declarations responsive to Request Nos. 81 and 82 for the full 2017-2021 period and her agreement to produce participation statements from that same period.’

They alleged she instead provided ‘supplemental responses limiting her production to 2020 and 2021, and later produced profit participation statements and tax returns for those two years only as well.’

The filing also claimed that Jolie had rejected a proposal to state that she wasn’t under ‘economic pressure’ prior to January 1, 2020 and that her ex had not exerted ‘economic coercion on her’ between 2017 to 2019. 

‘Prior to the IDC [Informal Discovery Conference], Plaintiffs proposed that Jolie stipulate that she was not under economic pressure before January 1, 2020, and that Pitt did not exert economic coercion on her from 2017 to 2019. Jolie declined.

Jolie’s lawyer slammed Brad’s ‘unyielding demand for harassing information’ from the actress; pictured 2014

‘At the IDC, the Court then separately proposed limiting the scope of Jolie’s testimony concerning her earnings and compensation. Again, Jolie declined the proposal. Instead, Jolie confirmed at the IDC that she may argue at trial that Pitt used Miraval as leverage to control her and that her decision to put her career on hold bears on why the proposed NDA was allegedly abusive. The parties therefore did not resolve the dispute.’

The filing also stated: ‘The Requests seek information directly bearing on financial assertions Jolie pleaded: that she forwent “years of compensation,” that Miraval was her “most important asset,” and that Pitt’s control over Miraval distributions gave him “substantial leverage and control” over her during the period leading to her 2019 decision to sell her stake in Chateau Miraval.’

In a previous legal filing, Jolie hit back at Pitt’s characterization of her remarks for ‘financial independence’, claiming she was misquoted.

She also noted she had already provided financial records despite having ‘no obligation to do so.’

They also alleged digging into Jolie’s finances from 2017-2019 pose a ‘serious invasion’ of her ‘privacy rights.’

Jolie’s finances became of interest to Pitt’s legal team after she alleged to have went without ‘years of compensation’ following their split

‘In short, the entire basis for Pitt compelling these answers is a made-up theory that Jolie did not allege. Nevertheless, to narrow the dispute, and although she feels very strongly that she did not have to do this, Jolie already agreed to produce and has in fact produced her tax returns, and all of her profit participation statements showing any income received, for 2020 and 2021 Although Jolie had no obligation to do so, producing these documents should have ended this dispute. These two years of private financial information—leading up to (2020) and during (2021) – the very dispute that is at the center of this case—already provided Pitt all the insight he needs into Jolie’s financial condition. Going back any further is a serious invasion of Jolie’s privacy rights’.

For a decade, Pitt and Jolie were seen as Hollywood’s ‘It’ couple during their long-term relationship after they met on the set of the 2005 film Mr and Mrs Smith.

They married in August 2014 during a secret ceremony in the South of France and welcomed three children together during their romance: Shiloh in 2006 and twins Vivienne and Knox in 2008.

They also adopted two more, Zahara and Pax, and Pitt legally adopted the son that Angelina had adopted before they got together, Maddox.

But in 2016, it came to an explosive end after the pair got into an alleged physical altercation while on a private flight with their six children and Jolie later filed for divorce.

The former couple have six children together, but many of the children have dropped their father’s last name

Jolie later claimed that Pitt ‘choked’ one of the children during the horrifying dispute and ‘struck’ another in the face, leaving her and the youngsters feeling like ‘hostages’ and cowering in fear under a blanket for hours until they landed.

She also alleged that he grabbed her by the head, slammed her against a wall, and violently shook her at one point during the flight – which resulted in her injuring her back and elbow.

Pitt’s representative called Jolie’s account ‘completely untrue’ to CNN at first, but then released an amended statement to the publication that read, ‘Angelina’s story continues to evolve each time she tells it.

‘Brad has accepted responsibility for what he did but will not for things he didn’t do. He has been on the receiving end of every type of personal attack and misrepresentation.

‘Thankfully, the various public authorities she has tried to use against him over the past six years have made their own independent decisions. Brad will continue to respond in court as he has consistently done.’

Since they split, the two stars have been embroiled in one of the most publicized legal battles in Hollywood history over custody of their children, as well as the winery that they once owned together.

In May 2021, after years of duking it out in court, Pitt and Jolie were officially granted joint custody of their six children, but one month later, the judge’s decision was thrown out.

The fallout from their split has gotten progressively uglier.

Zahara, Vivienne, Maddox, Shiloh and Knox have all dropped their father’s last name. It’s unclear where Pax stands.

Pitt has since moved on romantically and has been dating jewelry designer Ines de Ramon for the last few years.

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