Angelina Jolie filed a cross complaint responding to Brad Pitt's lawsuit over her selling her interest in their wine company, claiming he tried to prevent her from speaking about alleged abuse
Angelina Jolie has responded to Brad Pitt's lawsuit over the wine company they previously co-owned together, airing some shocking new claims against her ex-husband involving their 2016 plane incident.
Tuesday's cross complaint, filed by Jolie's lawyers in Los Angeles, contains allegations about the Sept. 14, 2016, private plane altercation that led to her divorce filing days later. (A redacted FBI report that Jolie anonymously submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for earlier this year included many of the same allegations about the incident this past August.)
The new filing reads, "When one of the children verbally defended Jolie, Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him. To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane's seats injuring Jolie's back and elbow. The children rushed in and all bravely tried to protect each other. Before it was over, Pitt choked one of the children and struck another in the face. Some of the children pleaded with Pitt to stop. They were all frightened."
The documents claim that over the course of "many tense hours" on the flight, Pitt "periodically emerged from the back of the plane to yell and swear at them" and "at one point, he poured beer on Jolie; at another, he poured beer and...
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