Angelina Jolie says the $8 million loan her ex Brad Pitt gave her for a home came with interest, and is stating publicly, through a representative, that she has been forced to shoulder alone the majority of their six children's expenses for the past two years.
The striking statement comes hours after Pitt filed documents in court countering Jolie's claim he had not paid any "meaningful" child support.
In those documents, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by USA TODAY, Pitt's attorneys refute her claim, stating that the actor has loaned Jolie $8 million for her current Los Angeles residence and has paid over $1.3 million in bills for her and their six children.
Pitt's lawyer, Lance Spiegel, slammed Jolie's claim in her filing, calling it "unnecessary, omits material information, and is a thinly veiled effort to manipulate media coverage."
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But Jolie's lawyer, Samantha Bley DeJean, was having none of it.
"Angelina’s filing of yesterday was both legally appropriate and factually accurate in all respects," DeJean said in a statement to USA TODAY late Wednesday. "What has been filed by Brad’s side today is a blatant attempt to obfuscate the truth and distract from the fact that he has not fully met his legal obligations to support the children."
Regarding the $8 million loan Pitt gave her for housing, DeJean says it was necessary as "Brad chose to keep" their original family home.
"Following the incident of September 2016, Angelina and the children needed to move from the family home, which Brad chose to keep, including all of its contents," DeJean says. "Brad was asked to assist in the expense of a new home for Angelina and the children, but instead he loaned Angelina money, for which he is charging her interest on a payment plan. Angelina will of course honor that loan. A loan is not, however, child support and to represent it as such is misleading and inaccurate."
And of the $1.3 million Pitt's lawyers say he has given in child support: "Angelina is asking Brad to pay 50% of the children’s expenses. He has not. Angelina has had to shoulder the majority of those without his contribution for the past two years. Child support is not optional in California. Typically a father of means would pay these expenses voluntarily without the need for a request or court order. We are hopeful that this can be resolved without further delay or posturing."
In Pitt's filing Wednesday, his legal team also asserted the actor informed Jolie (through their lawyers) around the beginning of August he wanted to move forward with dissolving their marriage, termed legally as bifurcation. Pitt's lawyers state her team asked them to hold for a week, and indicate that Jolie's team decided to file for dissolution, first, on Aug. 7.
Spiegel writes that there was already a status conference with their judge planned for Aug. 21. He calls Jolie's Tuesday request for a meeting specifically about child support "calculated to increase the conflict."
Angelina Jolie says the $8 million loan her ex Brad Pitt gave her for a home came with interest, and is stating publicly, through a representative, that she has been forced to shoulder alone the majority of their six children's expenses for the past two years.
The striking statement comes hours after Pitt filed documents in court countering Jolie's claim he had not paid any "meaningful" child support.
In those documents, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by USA TODAY, Pitt's attorneys refute her claim, stating that the actor has loaned Jolie $8 million for her current Los Angeles residence and has paid over $1.3 million in bills for her and their six children.
Pitt's lawyer, Lance Spiegel, slammed Jolie's claim in her filing, calling it "unnecessary, omits material information, and is a thinly veiled effort to manipulate media coverage."
More: Angelina Jolie accuses Brad Pitt of not paying 'meaningful' child support in court docs
But Jolie's lawyer, Samantha Bley DeJean, was having none of it.
"Angelina’s filing of yesterday was both legally appropriate and factually accurate in all respects," DeJean said in a statement to USA TODAY late Wednesday. "What has been filed by Brad’s side today is a blatant attempt to obfuscate the truth and distract from the fact that he has not fully met his legal obligations to support the children."
Regarding the $8 million loan Pitt gave her for housing, DeJean says it was necessary as "Brad chose to keep" their original family home.
"Following the incident of September 2016, Angelina and the children needed to move from the family home, which Brad chose to keep, including all of its contents," DeJean says. "Brad was asked to assist in the expense of a new home for Angelina and the children, but instead he loaned Angelina money, for which he is charging her interest on a payment plan. Angelina will of course honor that loan. A loan is not, however, child support and to represent it as such is misleading and inaccurate."
And of the $1.3 million Pitt's lawyers say he has given in child support: "Angelina is asking Brad to pay 50% of the children’s expenses. He has not. Angelina has had to shoulder the majority of those without his contribution for the past two years. Child support is not optional in California. Typically a father of means would pay these expenses voluntarily without the need for a request or court order. We are hopeful that this can be resolved without further delay or posturing."
In Pitt's filing Wednesday, his legal team also asserted the actor informed Jolie (through their lawyers) around the beginning of August he wanted to move forward with dissolving their marriage, termed legally as bifurcation. Pitt's lawyers state her team asked them to hold for a week, and indicate that Jolie's team decided to file for dissolution, first, on Aug. 7.
Spiegel writes that there was already a status conference with their judge planned for Aug. 21. He calls Jolie's Tuesday request for a meeting specifically about child support "calculated to increase the conflict."
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