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Brad Pitt goes off on Angelina Jolie's 'vindictive' winery sale. And she fires back

Brad Pitt, left, and Angelina Jolie attend the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 29, 2012.

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt's legal team is claiming that his ex-wife Angelina Jolie "vindictively" sold her stake in their Chateau Miraval winery behind his back and says she "sought to inflict harm on Pitt" in new court documents that reveal more details about the unraveling of the former power couple's relationship.

But Jolie's camp insists that Pitt refused to complete a Miraval sale with Jolie "unless she agreed to being silenced about" his alleged abuse.

The latest development in their contentious civil lawsuit arrived in court Thursday when the "Babylon" actor accused Jolie and her company, Nouvel, of secretly selling her share of their south-of-France winery to "seize profits she had not earned and returns on an investment she did not make." He claimed that

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