Brad Pitt makes 'last-ditch attempt' in Angelina Jolie case

Brad Pitt requests that the L.A. judge order Angelina Jolie to turn over the emails regarding the sale of the French winery, calling the move a “last-ditch attempt.”

In Touch obtains the court documents which show the Oscar winner’s legal team tells the court, “In a last-ditch attempt to suppress the truth about her wrongful sale to the Stoli Parties, [Angelina] has withheld hundreds of emails she exchanged with her inner circle in the period leading up to the sale on claims of attorney-client privilege.”

They continue, “But 126 of those emails are entirely between non-lawyers. These 126 communications should be ordered produced.”

Brad’s lawyer further contends, “After stonewalling for more than a year, [Angelina] finally agreed to produce these documents last summer.”

However, his legal team says,“[Angelina’s] agreement to produce them has turned out to be illusory. Indeed, [Angelina] has produced only one internal communication discussing or reflecting the sale.”

“[Angelina] claims that all of her team’s other internal communications on this subject are protected by the attorney/client privilege. This includes hundreds of emails to or from non-attorneys." 

"Such as her business manager Terry Bird, her image consultants Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, her wine consultant Christophe Salin, her finance consultants Marjorie Brabet-Friel and James Friel, and her personal assistants Michael Vieira and Mindy Nyby."

"126 of these communications do not even involve any attorney participant. [Angelina’s] wildly overbroad assertion of privilege over these 126 communications is unsupported by the law, and it cannot justify her near-complete cover-up of this critically important discovery," the lawyer argues.

The dispute is over a French winery the couple equally owned. However, after their separation, Angelina sold her stake in the business, leading Brad to file a lawsuit, alleging she did not seek his approval before selling.