A former safety guard for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie alleges that the actress tried to drive a wedge between the actor and their kids.
In courtroom paperwork obtained by ET, which have been filed on Thursday, legal professionals for Pitt declare {that a} former safety guard, Tony Webb, was instructed that Jolie had instructed her kids to not converse to Pitt throughout custody visits.
The paperwork additionally declare that Jolie tried to threaten the safety guards into silence by the usage of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
The paperwork have been filed as a part of the years-long authorized battle between the exes over their Château Miraval winery, and their subsequent back-and-forth authorized sparring over the usage of NDAs.
Based on the courtroom docs, Webb “was the top of Jolie’s safety element for 20 years, and he remained in that function for about 4 years after the couple divorced.”
Webb claims that Jolie “required him and his contractors to signal NDAs relating to varied private {and professional} particulars of her, and her household’s, life.”
After the couple divorced and was drawn right into a battle over custody of their six kids, the docs declare that Webb “obtained a number of calls from Jolie’s consultant, who instructed Mr. Webb to remind his workers that they’d entered into NDAs with Jolie and that in the event that they testified in a custody continuing, Jolie would sue them.”
Webb states that he conveyed this message to his contractors, and that each contractors “confirmed that they’d deliberate to testify if subpoenaed.”
Moreover, the docs declare that “one among them instructed Webb that ‘he would testify about statements he overheard that Ms. Jolie made to the youngsters, encouraging them to keep away from spending time with Mr. Pitt throughout custody visits.'”
The docs declare that “the 2 safety contractors each testified” regardless of the alleged menace of being sued, and “shortly thereafter Jolie fired Mr. Webb’s firm.”
It seems that Webb himself — who now works for Pitt — doesn’t declare to have personally heard Jolie’s alleged feedback to her children.
Jolie’s lawyer, Paul Murphy, launched an announcement to ET on Thursday addressing the claims made within the docs.
“Mr. Pitt’s continued try to equate widespread NDAs for safety personnel and housekeepers protecting confidential info staff study at work, with him demanding an expanded NDA to make sure the continued coverup of his deplorable actions stays shameful,” Murphy said. “This case isn’t about NDAs basically, however about energy and management. All Angelina has ever needed was separation and well being, with constructive relationships between all members of their household, together with Mr. Pitt. She appears ahead to the day when he’s lastly in a position to let her go.”
The newest submitting comes simply over a month after Jolie’s legal professionals filed paperwork claiming Pitt was “bodily abusive” towards her earlier than the alleged 2016 incident on a airplane, which she has mentioned was the impetus for her submitting for divorce.
The movement filed by Jolie’s authorized workforce on April 4 largely revolved across the former flames’ acrimonious authorized dispute over their shares of possession of their French vineyard, Château Miraval.
Jolie’s legal professionals filed the movement asking a courtroom to compel Pitt and his authorized workforce to offer “responses” and “paperwork” explaining why the Oscar-winning actor “all of a sudden conditioned his buy of Jolie’s share of Miraval on her agreeing to a tremendously expanded NDA now protecting Pitt’s private misconduct, whether or not associated to Miraval or not.”
Jolie claims within the paperwork that Pitt’s demand for this NDA was his try to “cowl up” his alleged abuse of her and their kids.
Pitt was by no means charged with a criminal offense after an investigation by authorities into the allegations of bodily abuse on the 2016 flight.
In distinction to the claims made by Jolie’s legal professionals, docs filed by Pitt’s authorized workforce in June 2023 declare that it was really Jolie’s workforce who requested a “broader” NDA, not him.
For extra on Jolie and Pitt’s years-long divorce and as-yet-unsettled custody battle, see the video beneath.
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