A source close to Angelina Jolie has claimed the actor is hopeful Brad Pitt will stop ‘attacking’ her now they have reached a settlement in their years-long divorce proceedings.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott J. Nord approved the settlement on December 31, 2024, one day after both Jolie and Pitt signed off on it and more than eight years after Jolie first filed for divorce in 2016.
The couple had been dating for 12 years and married for two when they split, with Jolie citing ‘irreconcilable differences’. In the settlement, the couple have given up the right to any future spousal financial support, the Associated Press reports.
Jolie’s attorney, James Simon, has said she is ‘exhausted’ from the proceedings, which dragged on due to custody battles, disputes over Jolie’s stake in a French winery, and claims made about a 2016 incident on board a private jet.
He added that she is now ‘relieved this one part is over’.
With the settlement reached, a source close to Jolie spoke to PEOPLE about the actor’s hopes to move forward.
They claimed: “Brad has successfully used his power and his privilege to cover up his conduct at his family’s expense, to punish Angelina for leaving, and even to attempt to paint her as the reason why his relationship is so challenging with the children.
“Angelina hopes the finalization of their divorce will enable him to move on, stop attacking her, and instead help heal their family.”
However, a source close to Pitt hit back by telling the publisher that Jolie has been involved in ‘one-sided attacks for the past eight years’.
The source claimed these ‘attacks’ included a ‘never-ending distortion of facts and projecting their own behavior onto others, causing tremendous collateral damage to those in and around the family’.
A source close to Pitt also told PEOPLE that the battle over the French winery – in which Jolie was accused of breaching an agreement when she sold her half – was a ‘perfect example’ of one of Jolie’s ‘attacks’.
“Brad built an extraordinary, increasingly valuable business and she chose to deliberately disregard their agreement, and instead of completing negotiations for him to buy her out and keeping Miraval fully in the family and ending the battles, she instead chose to sell to a total stranger not aligned with the company’s vision so she could take the money for herself and punish him,” the source claimed.
UNILAD has reached out to representatives for Pitt and Jolie for comment.
