布拉德·皮特（Brad Pitt）和安吉丽娜·朱莉（Angelina Jolie）尚未解决他们的离婚和监护问题。本周早些时候，我发布了有关他的集体诉讼使其成为正确的住房开发。And now he’s making headlines over another legal situation involving Chateau Miraval, the property that he and Angelina bought together during their relationship. Curiously, however, there are no headlines about the OTHER legal situation related to this latest one, so this isn’t just about the Brange situation but also about how Brad Pitt can manipulate his Hollywood influence and weaponise it to great effect.

TMZ broke the story yesterday布拉德（Brad）起诉安吉丽娜（Angelina）出售她的Miraval股票，声称他们“总是有了解……未经他人同意，他们都无法出售他们的利息”。Per TMZ：

“去年七月，安吉丽娜（Angelina）上法庭，告诉法官她已经达成协议出售她的兴趣to an unnamed person. Pitt says in September he agreed to allow Angelina topursue the salebut made it clear ... he was not consenting to the sale, but rather would give thumbs up or down to the proposed buyer.

Brad says in October he was shocked to learn a company called Tenute del Mondo -- a subsidiary of Stoli Group (the vodka co.) -- controlled by Russian oligarch, Yuri Shefler, bought her interest in the winery.

他说，安吉丽娜（Angelina）从未寻求他的同意，并有意保留了他的交易条款。

布拉德说，谢弗勒对自己经营酒庄的能力造成了破坏。”

The detail about the Russian oligarch here is deliberately inflammatory. She sold her shares in a winery to a company that specialises in alcohol with alcohol-related business interests around the world. Which means they have experience in alcohol brand and production management. Which …could be an asset when running a winery?

尽管如此，这实际上并不是整个故事。所有这些首次在去年夏天首次引起了公众关注，因为安吉丽娜（Angelina）试图卸下她的米拉瓦尔（Miraval）股份，并声称布拉德试图为她座舱。她发起了法院诉讼，要求法官允许她出售，并解释说她被排除在有关业务的决策之外，并且正在从布拉德（Brad）为业务付出的行动中损失钱，而没有她的投入。法官批准了她的请求，她卖给了蒙多（Del Mondo）的Tenute。

TMZ’s characterisation that Brad “agreed to allow” Angelina to pursue the sale, then, is misleading. He was fighting it. A court approved it. She didn’t need his permission, so whatever “understanding” he’s claiming they had is a generous description on TMZ’s part of this situation.

但是还有更多…

Angelina exited the chat, and Tenute del Mondo is now Brad’s business partner. To simplify, when Angelina was still in business with Miraval, she owned it under a company called Nouvel. This is how the sale was done – she sold Nouvel to Tenute del Mondo. The reason I’m clarifying this is because…

在一月份，就在上个月，Nouvel不再是安吉丽娜（Angelina）的公司，而是现在的Tenute del Mondo的子公司 - 对布拉德·皮特（Brad Pitt）的公司提起了法庭诉讼。法院文件can be read hereNouvel和Tenute del Mondo对Brad的公司Mondo Bongo的主张的一部分是：

“Nouvel and Tenute have repeatedly attempted to obtain information about Quimicum and Chateau Miraval from Mondo Bongo and Mr. Pitt and to communicate with them in an attempt to get the business affairs of Quimicum and Chateau Miraval in order. Mondo Bongo and Mr. Pitt have refused to cooperate, and have continued to act as if they were the controlling shareholders of both companies.”

这一切都是非常复杂的法律SH-T，我并不是说我知道谁实际上是错误的或正确的。My point is that TMZ is reporting on a story about Brange, so naturally it’s going to get play all over the place since they’re both so famous, and everyone has picked it up… but there are so many other important details that are missing.

Because it changes the complexion of the situation when you know that there was already a court filing AGAINST Brad on the books related to Miraval and his alleged mismanagement of the business. But when a large majority of the people learning about this situation are only getting the “Brad sues Angelina” part of it, the motivation behind the omission of the other details comes into question.

TMZ somehow got their hands on the court documents about Brad suing Angelina but they didn’t include publicly filed court documents about a court proceeding involving Brad related to the same property?

And on the subject of TMZ and their reporting, if you’re at all familiar with TMZ’s role in the celebrity industrial complex, you know they love legal sh-t. They are always out here reporting on celebrity legal drama, big or small. If you’re looking for related celebrity alcohol business legal content at TMZ, just yesterday they posted aboutKendall Jenner’s tequila company getting sued。So you would think that the new owners of Nouvel, Tenute del Mondo, suing Brad would be kinda newsworthy?

You would think that the homeowners who bought into Make It Right mounting a class action lawsuit against Brad would be newsworthy? That story hasn’t gotten any play at TMZ either.

有趣的是，TMZ早在2021年5月报告说布拉德赢得了“50/50 joint custody” of their children, calling it a “big loss for Angelina” but did NOT give an update on the situation two months later, in July 2021 when an appellate court in California disqualified the judge who had ruled in Brad’s favour for not disclosing his conflict of interest. The decision in appeals court to disqualify that judge voided the judge’s decisions in their custody case. No mention of this at TMZ. And further, there was no mention in October 2021 when the California Supreme Court UPHELD the appellate court’s decision…

Which was a BIG win for Angelina.

Again, no mention at TMZ.

现在，六个月后，他们获得了有关布拉德·索宁·安吉丽娜（Brad Suing Angelina）的独家产品，但在这里没有介绍全部图片……尽管布拉德（Brad）的位置肯定在娱乐媒体中得到很好的代表。巧合还是阴谋？