In the ongoing legal dispute between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie over their former shared winery in France, the couple is continuing their battle. In newly filed legal documents by Pitt's lawyers on Thursday, he describes Jolie's sale of her portion of Château Miraval in 2021 as "vindictive" following an "adverse custody ruling."

The lawsuit asserts that the alleged sale was "illegal" because Jolie and Pitt broke their "contractual agreement" to "hold Miraval together and not sell their interests separately without the other's consent."

In 2008, the former couple purchased the rural estate and winery located in the south of France.

According to the legal records, Pitt's attorneys argue that Jolie's decision to halt negotiations and sell her shares was intentional and pretextual. They claim that her actions were illegal, aimed at harming Pitt, and unfairly benefiting herself, which they plan to demonstrate during the trial.

The legal conflict arises from the couple's divorce proceedings, which began when Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016. Jolie's former company Nouvel is suing Pitt for more than $250 million in damages, claiming that since she filed for divorce in 2016, Pitt has been "waging a vindictive war against" Jolie.

Although they were legally declared single in 2019, they have yet to reach a shared parenting agreement for their minor children.

In October 2021, Jolie sold her shares in Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, a division of the Stoli Group, owned by Russian businessman Yuri Shefler.

Initially, Pitt filed a claim against the seller in 2022, arguing that the transfer was "illegal" as they had supposedly agreed when they purchased Château Miraval that neither would sell without the other's consent.

Jolie filed a countersuit, asserting that no such agreement existed and that she sold her stake in the vineyard to achieve "financial independence" from Pitt and to "find some form of peace and closure to this deeply painful and traumatic chapter of her and their children's lives."