Brad Pitt will “respond in court” to Angelina Jolie‘s claims he was violent towards their children. The “Maleficent” actress claimed in legal documents earlier this week that her ex-husband had “choked” one of their children and “struck another in the face” during a flight from France to California in September 2016.
And while the “Bullet Train” star’s attorney slammed the claims as a “personal attack” and insisted he hadn’t been violent towards his brood, his team apparently plan to use legal channels to clarify his version of events.
Pitt’s attorney, Anne Kiley, told E! News: “Brad has owned everything he’s responsible for from day one – unlike the other side – but he’s not going to own anything he didn’t do. He has been on the receiving end of every type of personal attack and misrepresentation.”
Thankfully, the various public authorities the other side has tried to use against him over the past six years have made their own independent decisions,” Kiley said. Brad will continue to respond in court as he has consistently done.
Jolie made the abuse claim as part of her cross-complaint in the former couple’s legal battle over Château Miraval, the winery they once owned together.
Lawyers acting on behalf of the “Tomb Raider” actress – who has Maddox, 21, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and 14-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox with Pitt –claimed negotiations to sell her share of the business to her ex-husband broke down over his demand that she sign “a non-disclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children”.
The filing goes on to describe an alleged outburst from Pitt as the family flew from France to California in September 2016, which allegedly began when the “Moneyball” star accused his then-wife of being “too deferential” to the children before yelling at her in the bathroom. The documents continued: “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.
Source: IOL
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