Since filing court papers on Tuesday alleging that on an airplane ride in 2016, Brad Pitt hit and choked their kids while inebriated, Angelina Jolie has been called a vengeful liar by online flocks and even some media portals.
The response has been creepily reminiscent of the reaction to Amber Heard’s allegations that Johnny Depp maltreated and assaulted her during their highly broadcast defamation trial in May.
On Tuesday, amid Pitt’s continued suit against Jolie for selling her stakes in their shared winery and the couple’s ongoing child custody battle, Jolie’s lawyers filed a complaint that gives further details about the plane ride in question, which first came to the public attention in August, when an FBI report about the incident was released.
I knew Angelina Jolie way before I knew who Brad Pitt was . She is a badass tomb raider & a refreshingly brave human who lives life on her own terms & lends her voice to those in need- rare in the faux glossy world of hollywood. They’ll come for her because she never fit in. https://t.co/vrckWhOZ5R
— soul search (@greyareasinlife) October 5, 2022
In it, Jolie alleged that during a drunken rampage, Pitt had shoved and spilled drinks on her and charged one of their kids for defending Jolie amid the couple’s argument. But the new filing this week specifies that Pitt was physically violent toward their kids, too.
The FBI agent who had been investigating the incident told Jolie in 2021 that he’d “concluded that the government had probable cause to charge Pitt with a federal crime for his conduct that day.”
Brad Pitt fires back at Angelina Jolie’s claims he attacked her and children on plane: ‘He’s not going to own anything he didn’t do’https://t.co/rIxMKFgIqD
— U.S Main News (@US_Main_News) October 7, 2022
Per the August report, Jolie was “conflicted on whether or not to be supportive of charges” related to the case—a common experience among those who have survived domestic or intimate partner violence—and Jolie’s lawyers said on Tuesday this was “to try to shield their children from reliving the pain Pitt inflicted on the family that day.”