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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce proceedings, as predicted back in 2018, are still on track to “outlive us all.”

The post-marriage back and forth between the celebrity couple has basically lasted longer than the marriage itself, from tying the knot in 2014 to filing for divorce in 2016 and having it finalised in 2019.

The legal battle was mostly about who would be granted custody of their six kids – Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, twins Vivienne and Knox, 13, and Son Maddox, who is now 20.

The heat was really turned up when Angelina requested primary custody of five of their six children, and now the legal battle continues to go the messy route.

Their co-owned French estate and vineyard, Château Miraval, the venue for the couple’s secretive wedding ceremony were married, is at the centre of their latest tug-of-war:

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Brad filed a lawsuit in Luxembourg yesterday (September 21), accusing Angelina and her business partners of trying to cut him out of a potentially lucrative sale of Château Miraval shares, per US Weekly.

It is alleged that Angelina tried to sell her 50% share in the $164 million estate without first giving Brad the option to buy her out, according to the court filing.

Here’s Page Six with more:

According to the lawsuit seen by Page Six, both Pitt, 57, and Jolie, 46, held their shares for Miraval in separate limited liability companies (LLCs).

According to the court papers, Miraval is owned by Quimicum, a company in which Pitt originally held a 60 per cent share through his company Mondo Bongo, while Jolie held 40 per cent through her company Nouvel.

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Three years before they split in 2016, Pitt transferred 10 percent of the estate from Mondo Bongo to Jolie’s Nouvel, making them equal shareholders.

It was a part of their divorce agreement that they would ask each other for permission if they ever wanted to sell their shares, but it seems Angelina went with a sneakier option.

The suit is accusing Jolie of “systematic obstruction” which could get her more money at Brad’s expense:

“It is worth mentioning that, for the last four years, Nouvel [Jolie’s company] did not act in the best interest of Quimicum by systematically delaying the approval of the annual accounts and the renewal of the manager,” the suit states.

…A source told us: “It’s another example of Angelina trying to circumvent the rules and avoid their obligations.”

Another source added that it is quite “upsetting that she would behave this way” considering that Brad was the one who “did all of the work on building Miraval”.

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Meanwhile, the custody case is still ongoing, with judges being disqualified willy-nilly.

There have been accusations of “celebrity litigants seeking special treatment” and strategic ‘lie in wait’ disqualification challenges that will likely do major harm to the children and families at large if continued.

You can read more about that here and here.

[sources:pagesix&usweekly]