It’s slow-going, but for those of us who have followed the Jolie-Pitt saga for years, we’re watching the slow-motion implosion of Brad Pitt. Not just Pitt the man – we’re seeing an implosion of his entire image, and an implosion of years of lies and smears against Angelina Jolie. The biggest mistake was when Brad Pitt tried to bully Angelina yet again by suing her over her legal sale of Nouvel, her half of Chateau Miraval. She countersued Pitt and her legal team is vigorously defending Jolie and her actions with extensive documentation. One of Jolie’s latest moves was to reveal more information about the NDA Pitt tried to attach to Jolie’s sale of Nouvel to him. It was the NDA which made her walk away and sell to Tenute del Mondo. Jolie’s team reveal in court documents that Pitt demanded a “newly expanded NDA, enforceable by an $8.5 million holdback specifically designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up.” As we’ve said before, Jolie has extensive documentation of everything. So in lieu of actually going into court to push back on Jolie with his own (nonexistent) documentation, Brad’s team ran to People Magazine to whine.

A source close to Brad Pitt is responding to Angelina Jolie’s latest filing in her ongoing legal battle with her ex over Château Miraval, the French winery they previously co-owned together.

Jolie’s attorneys recently filed court documents arguing that Pitt tried to have Jolie sign a revised non-disclosure agreement “specifically designed to force her silence about his abuse and cover-up,” while arguing in support of a recent motion to compel Pitt to disclose personal communications.

“This was a simple business dispute, but sadly, this legal attack is just the latest example of them harming the entire family by making it personal,” the source says.

Pitt’s attorneys previously described Jolie’s motion “wide-ranging and intrusive.”

“The other side is desperately and repeatedly trying to do anything to distract from the fact that it was her — and not Brad — who requested an NDA about the divorce, a fact which completely undermines the legitimacy of their never-ending attacks,” the source close to Pitt says. “They don’t want anyone to focus on the fact that she deprived the kids of their inheritance of Miraval by breaching the agreement and selling it and taking the money.”

A source close to Jolie says, “Brad Pitt’s insistence on an NDA to cover up his criminal conduct is unconscionable, and no abuse survivor should be coerced and forced into silence. She never pressed charges, she left him all their properties, and she is the one who tried to sell him the business in the first place. Yet he was not satisfied and still he sued her and continues to attack her in the press today. All she wants is peace and the ability to heal their family.”

[From People]

“The other side is desperately and repeatedly trying to do anything to distract from the fact that it was her — and not Brad — who requested an NDA about the divorce.” O RLY?? Back it up. Show the receipts. A big part of the case hinges on the NDA, an NDA which Jolie found so offensive and harmful that she walked away from selling Nouvel to Pitt. Now Team Pitt is claiming – to People Magazine, not IN COURT – that Jolie was the one who “requested an NDA about the divorce.” That’s Pitt’s argument? That Jolie requested the NDA, then the second she saw it, she decided to walk away and never sell Nouvel to Pitt? And a year ago, Team Pitt’s argument was that Jolie blind-sided Pitt by not selling Nouvel to him… which was another lie.

“She never pressed charges, she left him all their properties, and she is the one who tried to sell him the business in the first place. Yet he was not satisfied and still he sued her and continues to attack her in the press today.” All of that… plus he wouldn’t even let their children move their stuff out of his homes. And she had to take him to court to get some financial support after years of Pitt not giving her any money beyond one “loan.”

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