Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's battle for the Chateau Miraval winery.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's exploitative legal disputes included a disagreement over a winery in the south of France that the couple purchased in 2008. When the couple separated in 2016, numerous reports surfaced that Pitt had physically and psychologically abused his family on an airplane flight. Jolie accused Pitt of trying to get her to sign a nondisclosure agreement regarding his behavior as part of a deal to sell the winery for $67 million in 2021.

Shocking details of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's never-ending legal battle that began after their acrimonious breakup in 2016 recently came to light. In a new article for the July/August issue of Vanity Fair, special correspondent Mark Seal revealed the former spouses' conflict surrounding their once-beloved French winery, Chateau Miraval.

The couple bought the vineyard in 2008 for about 25 million euros and became co-owners of the property and the winery. Vanity Fair quoted the family's former head of security, winemakers, real estate agents and others with detailed knowledge of the couple's time in the south of France.

The report notes that in 2021, Jolie, 47, and Pitt, 58, seemed to have reached an agreement under which he would purchase her half of the business. The deal stalled when Pitt tried to include a nondisclosure agreement that would have prohibited the "Sinister Movie" star from talking about their famous altercation in front of their children on a private jet in 2016, according to the Vanity Fair article.

Pitt's reps claimed that it was actually Jolie who first brought up the non-disclosure agreement when the "12 Monkeys" star began negotiating its contents, and that's when Jolie backed out of the deal. DailyMail.com reached out to Angelina Jolie's representatives to clarify this information.

Not long later, Jolie sold her part to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, who is labeled an "oligarch" by the U.S. Treasury Department. Pitt and Jolie met in 2005 on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," where they played a bored married couple who discover they were both hit men, mercenaries for rival agencies invited to kill each other.

They married at Chateau Miraval in 2014 and have raised six children - three biological and three adopted - now ranging in age from 14 to 21. The Vanity Fair article notes that the first cracks in the marriage began to show in 2015.

Those tensions reached a breaking point when the family was returning to the U.S.

Pitt claims he was stunned when Jolie sold her share of Chateau Miraval, the 35-room estate and famous vineyard in the south of France that they bought for $60 million in 2011. The 1,000-acre property, now worth $164 million, is where the couple married in 2014.

Pitt's representatives countered that the real reason Jolie backed out of the deal was her anger over a separate custody decision that gave him more access to the children. Jolie's attorneys also tried to correct the unfair portrayal of her role in the success of the wine brand during their co-ownership, claiming that she invested $60 million in the company. A source connected to Pitt said her investment totaled about $38 million.

It was previously reported that Pitt learned that his ex-wife had sold half of their property and business to a "Russian oligarch" from a press release. The couple had a "mutual and binding commitment" to the $160 million Chateau Miraval business, and they agreed not to sell it without the other's permission. According to Vanity Fair, Jolie claims "no such agreement ever existed." Pitt learned of his ex-wife's sale of her 50 percent stake when a 2021 press release announced that he had new business partners, so the actor's lawyers claim. The buyer was part of a "Russian" vodka conglomerate headed by Shefler, who used his relationship with the celebrity to improve his reputation, Vanity Fair's sources claim.

Thus, Pitt considers Jolie's sale of Chateau Miraval to be linked to Russia and Vladimir Putin, which could irrevocably damage the brand, the actor claims. In her counter-accusatory complaint, Jolie accused Pitt of forcing her to sell her company to his Mondo Bongo company and spreading lies about Shefler's ties to the Kremlin.

Pitta was also accused of hiding assets and using profits from wine sales to build a swimming pool and a luxurious staircase, which was rebuilt several times.

"The only thing that corresponds to Jolie's complaint is that she and Pitt bought Château Miraval as a 'loving home for their six children,'” Pitt's lawyers protested in documents filed in 2022. “As stated in the second amended complaint, Pitt and Jolie had a mutual and binding commitment, which is reflected in their behavior and statements to each other over time, that they would keep Miraval together and, if necessary, sell their interests only with each other's consent.”

It seems that the legal battle is still ongoing, and French authorities are conducting an investigation into the business, VF reports.

The Vanity Fair article concludes with a note that since September 2016, neither the Pitt nor Jolie families have returned to stay at the property.