🍷 Jolie sold her Château Miraval stake to Stoli's wine arm

Price undisclosed; People valued the label at $164M. The 2021 deal closed amid Pitt's suit over a 2013 share transfer he says was made for one euro. 🔒

By , editor at large · Desk editor Gustavs Ērkšķis-Kreicbergs · · 2 min read

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What we know

  • Pitt and Jolie bought Château Miraval in 2011 for a reported $60 million, with winemaker Marc Perrin making the wine in collaboration with them, The Drinks Business reported.
  • In October 2021, Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of Stoli Group, bought Jolie's 50 percent of the estate for an undisclosed amount, People reported, citing a press release.
  • Pitt and Jolie married in a small chapel at Miraval on August 23, 2014, the Associated Press reported, having moved their family into the estate in 2008.
  • People valued the label at $164 million and reported that Pitt's company, Mondo Bongo, had sued Jolie's company, Nouvel, over the estate before the sale closed.

Château Miraval doesn't do anything quietly. The Provence estate where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie married in 2014 has spent the years since their split generating exactly the kind of paperwork Mr Scandal lives for: a 60-40 buy-in, a one-euro share transfer, a lawsuit between their holding companies, and - in October 2021 - a sale with no published price.

The timeline

01

2008: the buy-in

Through their companies, Pitt and Jolie bought into Quimicum - the company People described as owning and controlling Miraval - splitting it 60-40, with Pitt's Mondo Bongo holding the majority, according to court documents obtained by People.

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02

2011: the reported $60 million

They bought the 500-hectare Miraval that year for a reported $60 million, The Drinks Business reported, with Marc Perrin making the wine in collaboration with them; the first 6,000 bottles of Miraval Rosé 2012 sold out in five hours.

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03

2013: the one-euro transfer

The companies' split evened to 50-50 when Mondo Bongo transferred shares to Nouvel, People reported; Pitt's later lawsuit claimed he had sold Jolie those shares for a symbolic one euro, below their true value, and argued the transfer should be voided.

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04

2014: the chapel wedding

Pitt and Jolie married in a small chapel at Miraval on August 23, 2014, the Associated Press reported, in a ceremony conducted by a California judge who had issued their marriage license.

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05

2016: the divorce filing

Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016, People reported; the proceedings were still being finalized years later.

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06

September 2021: cleared to sell

A California court cleared Jolie to sell her shares despite the unfinished divorce, People reported, while Pitt's Mondo Bongo had separately sued Jolie's Nouvel to keep a majority of the estate.

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07

October 2021: the exit

Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of Stoli Group, bought Jolie's 50 percent for an undisclosed amount, People reported, citing a press release. No price was disclosed.

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A share that once changed hands for one euro now sits inside a label People put at $164 million. The rosé appreciated faster than the marriage.

What is on the record is the lawsuit and the $164 million figure People attached to the label. What neither side put on the record is the price Tenute del Mondo paid - People could report it only as 'undisclosed.' Pitt's company frames the 2013 transfer as a one-euro sleight of hand; whether Jolie contests that is not stated in the reporting.

On file: The Brad Pitt file

The Ledger

On the record

  • Jolie sold her 50 percent of Château Miraval to Tenute del Mondo, Stoli Group's wine division, in October 2021 for an undisclosed amount, People reported.
  • People valued the label at $164 million and reported that Pitt's Mondo Bongo had sued Jolie's Nouvel over the estate; the couple bought Miraval in 2011 for a reported $60 million.
  • Pitt and Jolie married in a chapel at Miraval on August 23, 2014.

Still rumour

  • The price Tenute del Mondo paid for Jolie's stake was not disclosed.
  • Pitt's claim that the 2013 share transfer was made for a symbolic one euro is an allegation in his lawsuit; whether Jolie contests it is not stated in the reporting.

That's the record. The rest is rumour. - Mr Scandal

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