The case moves on to trial after Brad Pitt prevails in the crucial arguments in his stunning battle with Angelina Jolie
The court decision «is a clear victory for Brad» in his lawsuit against Angelina Jolie over a French winery they co-owned, a source close to Brad Pitt tells PEOPLE.
In his protracted legal dispute with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over the French vineyard Château Miraval, Brad Pitt just achieved a significant victory.
Judge Lia Martin of Los Angeles County Superior Court denied three demurrers, or motions to dismiss, recently submitted by Jolie’s legal team in connection with Pitt’s own claims in court that Jolie broke a verbal and written agreement to not sell their shares in Miraval without both parties’ consent, according to new court documents filed on Friday, Nov. 8 and obtained by PEOPLE on Monday, Nov. 11.
Pitt’s lawyers claimed that the former couple’s businesses, 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.» The ruling was made in response to Jolie’s requests to have three separate causes of action dismissed by Pitt in a complaint filed in the case back in April.
Pitt’s attorneys claimed in the April complaint that this written agreement between the two businesses pertaining to any sale of Miraval existed in addition to Jolie and Pitt’s verbal agreement to obtain each other’s approval before selling their shares.
