Brad Pitt has won a legal victory in his ongoing Chateau Miraval battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
A Michigan judge ruled on Wednesday, May 20, that Story’s attorneys wrongly blocked her from testifying during a key deposition related to the case, according to court documents obtained exclusively by Page Six.
The court found that Stoli’s former general counsel Todd Kriva was improperly instructed not to answer 33 questions in a December deposition regarding Joly’s 2021 stake sale in his French winery business.
The blocked questions included questions regarding the involvement of Yuri Scherfer, the ultimate beneficiary of Storie, in Joly’s sale of an indirect interest in Miraval to the company.
The judge ruled that attorney-client privilege did not extend to the “business side” of the transaction, which the court said was subject to cross-examination.
As a result, Mr. Kriva was ordered to reappear at the deposition, over the objections of Storey, and to answer previously blocked questions, along with related follow-up.
The latest ruling marks a new phase in the legal battle between Pitt, 62, and Jolie, 50, over Chateau Miraval.
Mr. Pitt first filed suit in 2022, alleging that his ex-wife sold her interest in Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of Story Group, despite a prior agreement not to sell either without the other party’s approval.
Jolie denied the agreement and filed a countersuit, claiming the actor and producer was “waging a war of revenge” against her.
The ruling also comes just weeks after Jolie scored her own legal victory when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that Pitt had not met her burden of overcoming attorney-client privilege claims, denying Pitt’s efforts to compel her to hand over a range of private emails related to the winery dispute.
The motion was “dismissed without prejudice”, meaning the F1 star could raise the issue again later. At the time, a source exclusively told Page Six, “It’s remarkable that Jolie has privileged and withheld so many documents. These emails are just part of the evidence in this case.”
Pitt previously secured another discovery victory in December 2025 when a judge ordered Jolly to turn over some unredacted non-lawyer communications related to the winery dispute.
Ms Jolie had previously accused Mr Pitt of waging a “war of revenge” against her through the lawsuit, while Mr Pitt had argued that the suppressed communications were important to understanding the sale.
The “Moneyball” star finalized his long-running divorce from the “Maleficent” actress in December 2024, ending more than eight years of litigation.
The former couple have six children: Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.
