In a new court filing, Angelina Jolie has accused her ex-husband Brad Pitt of having a “history of physical abuse” against her before their alleged plane 2016 altercation. The 48-year-old actress’ legal team filed paperwork on Thursday, April 4, against the 60-year-old actor.
“While Pitt’s history of physical abuse of Jolie started well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip from France to Los Angeles, this flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on the children as well,” the Salt actress’ lawyers said, according to documents obtained by multiple outlets. “Jolie then immediately left him,” her lawyers added in the paperwork.
Jolie’s attorneys also claimed that Pitt wanted her to “contractually bind herself” to silence after he found out in 2021 that she submitted a sealed filing of their legal situation containing “emails, summaries of the family’s expected testimony and other evidence.”
In a statement to Page Six, Jolie’s lawyer Paul Murphy alleged, “Mr. Pitt refused to purchase Ms. Jolie’s interest when she would not be silenced by his NDA. By refusing to buy her interest but then suing her, Mr. Pitt put directly at issue why that NDA was so important to him and what he hoped it would bury: his abuse of Ms. Jolie and their family.”
Pitt has not publicly responded to Jolie’s new court filing.
In October 2022, Jolie accused her ex-husband of physically abusing her and their children on a flight back to California in 2016. According to court documents obtained by News47.us from the Los Angeles Superior Court, Jolie claimed that she and Pitt got into an argument in the bathroom of the plane, where he allegedly “grabbed [her] by the head and shook her.” He then allegedly pushed her against the wall of the bathroom and “punched the ceiling of the plane numerous times.”
One of Pitt and Jolie’s six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne — defended Jolie, and Pitt allegedly “choked one of his children and struck another.” In the documents at the time, the child’s name was redacted. Jolie also accused Pitt of “pouring beer and red wine on the children.”
In a recent court filing, Angelina Jolie accused her ex-husband Brad Pitt of physically abusing her before an alleged incident in 2016. Jolie’s legal team filed paperwork on Thursday claiming that Pitt had a history of abuse that started before their plane trip from France to Los Angeles. The filing also stated that Pitt turned his abuse on their children during this trip, prompting Jolie to leave him.
Jolie’s lawyers also claimed that Pitt wanted her to sign an agreement to keep quiet after she submitted sealed documents containing evidence of their legal situation. Jolie’s lawyer, Paul Murphy, stated that Pitt’s refusal to purchase her interest without the NDA raised questions about his abuse towards Jolie and their family.
Pitt has not responded publicly to Jolie’s accusations in the new court filing. In previous court documents from October 2022, Jolie alleged that Pitt physically abused her and their children during a flight to California in 2016. One of their children defended Jolie, stating that Pitt choked one child and struck another. Jolie also claimed that Pitt poured beer and wine on the children.
