Pitt’s attorney responds, “Brad has owned everything he’s accountable for from day one, unlike Angelina, and he’s not going to own anything further.”

According to a source close to Angelina Jolie, the reason Brad Pitt is still suing their winery is because she refused to sign an NDA. However, a source on Pitt’s side claims that “the non-disparagement clause in the contract” was part of “a totally standard” commercial deal.

Pitt, 59, sued Jolie this week over her sale of her share in Château Miraval, a French company that includes a house and vineyard in the south of France where they were married in 2014. In the new second amendment complaint, Pitt is disputing Jolie’s sale of her share.

After their breakup, he asserts that Jolie, 47, “deliberately kept him in the dark about the sale of her share of their family wine business to a Russian oligarch” and that the relationship with the buyer poses a “existential threat to the business.”

According to the court papers, the couple purchased “the château as a home to share with their children and the vineyard as a family business.” Along with it, “Jolie, though supportive of Pitt’s efforts on behalf of the family, did none of the work necessary for Miraval’s success.”

Pitt’s legal team stated in the paperwork that “the alleged sale disrupts Pitt’s right to enjoy the home he established for his family.”

According to a source close to Jolie, the reason Pitt is pursuing legal action over the sale is because she refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement that would have prevented her from discussing prior allegations of domestic abuse. A source close to Pitt, however, tells PEOPLE that “there was a non-disparagement clause in the contract, but that is totally standard to business transactions like this.”

Source: “Brad requested a mutual NDA and non-disparagement strictly related to Miraval over concerns around sensitive financial information and protecting the brand, which is standard with these types of transactions,” source says. “It was unrelated to the divorce or the kids.”

“Brad has owned everything he’s responsible for from day one, unlike Angelina,” says Pitt’s attorney Anne Kiley of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP to PEOPLE. He has gone through every agency, professional, and two court hearings she has thrown at him, and we refer to the results.

In court documents made available last year, Jolie’s earlier charges were revealed. These allegations concerned a 2016 aircraft flight with their six children, a circumstance that prompted her to file for divorce days later.

According to the source, Mr. Pitt “cannot escape from the fact that he verbally and physically assaulted Ms. Jolie and their children—even choking one of the children and striking another” no matter how many times he changes his complaint.

He personally has never publicly denied that it took place, the insider says, even now, seven years after that tragic plane flight. It is difficult to understand Mr. Pitt’s claim that he is suing his ex-wife in order to safeguard his family because he is fully aware that the kids haven’t been welcome at the French home for nearly seven years as a result of the circumstances that Ms. Jolie cited in her divorce petition.

According to the source, “the truth is that Pitt wouldn’t close the Miraval sale with Jolie unless she agreed to be silent about the abuse as he demanded that $8.5 million be withheld to force her to stay quiet.”

“Ms. Jolie had no desire to discuss what had occurred. In actuality, she has never even attempted to do so; instead, she has committed her life to supporting reforms for the country’s woefully inadequate response to domestic abuse and to aiding the children’s healing. The only reason this information is now public is because Mr. Pitt decided to sue her for breaking their agreement to remain silent.

A source close to Pitt told PEOPLE: “It’s incredibly sad that she continues to rehash, revise, and reimagine her description of an event that happened six years ago, adding in completely untrue information to try to get additional attention for herself at the expense of their family.” The 2016 plane allegations were brought up by Jolie’s legal team in a response filed in October for the winery case.

She had the chance to provide information to law authorities, who decided not to file charges. She has fallen back on trying to again discuss the same subject. returning to the same issue month after month with fresh yet untrue material for her own unique goals.

Following a report concerning a drunken altercation Pitt had with Jolie, the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services looked into the matter. The event happened when their family was flying on a private plane from France to their Los Angeles residence. On the plane, a source at the time claimed that Pitt became “verbally abusive” and “physical” with one of their children. Pitt denied any wrongdoing.

By November of that year, the FBI had wrapped up its inquiry without filing any charges against Pitt. DCFS also completed its investigation following the incident earlier that month, but it turned up no evidence of maltreatment.

In an interview with The Guardian in 2021, Jolie discussed her divorce and said, “I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly. It took a lot for me to reach the point when I felt I had to end my relationship with my children’s father.

At the time, Jolie claimed she was “broken” by her experiences and wished for her family, “including their dad,” to find a way to move on. She added, “There’s a lot I can’t say.”