How Brad Pitt Wounded $500 Million in His Vineyard Affair Against Angelina Jolie

It’s a twists and turns affair worthy of the best suspense series scenarios; Baa-Baa for the most glamorous couple of 2010. Fight Club and the heroine of Lara Croft, their divorce did not fail to animate the web. While child custody is traditionally a touchy subject, in this case it wasn’t one of the couple’s six children that pitted the ex-lovers against each other, but their wine property, Chateau Miraval.

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Initially, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie owned 60% and 40% of the estate respectively. Acquired by his company Quimicum, the actor, who has played roles from Quentin Tarantino to Damien Chazelle, sportingly speculated that he and Angelina should be equal shareholders. So, he offered him 10% of his shares for a symbolic $1. Such an explanation seems fanciful; However, non-payment of this amount is one of the arguments that allowed Brad Pitt to win his case before the Luxembourg court these days. Because, after his wife sold her shares to Russian oligarch Yuri Scheffler, owner of the Stoli vodka brand, the matter became more complicated. Keen to remain the owner of his property, the now sixty-year-old tried to demonstrate that the 10% of shares given to his wife free at the time of their marriage no longer had value when they were no longer together and that she had resold them without his consent. The great seducer of Babylon

Clearly heard, because the court of Luxembourg, the country of origin of the company through which they acquired Miraval, ruled in favor of his case, pending the final ruling of the future, according to information reported by Var-Morning. Advantage Brad Pitt so, but more to follow.

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