Brad Pitt has achieved a new legal victory in his ongoing battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over the Miraval Mansion. According to the latest reports, the judge ordered a key figure linked to the case to return to give further testimony.Page Six reported that a Michigan judge ruled, on May 20, that lawyers representing Stoli’s side “improperly blocked” testimony from general counsel Todd Kuleba during a crucial deposition related to the sale of Jolie’s stake in the French wine company.According to court documents obtained by the portal, the ruling comes after Kuleba was instructed not to answer 33 questions during a deposition in December.
These unanswered questions are said to relate to the role of Stoli’s ultimate beneficial owner, Yuri Schiffer, in buying out Stoli’s stake in the company.The judge reportedly found that attorney-client privilege did not apply to “business aspects” and that the 33 questions listed could have been answered during the deposition. As part of the ruling, Kuleba has now been ordered to appear in court again and answer not only the previously prohibited questions, but also any other relevant follow-up questions.
The ruling comes just weeks after Jolie secured a legal win of her own when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge rejected Pitt’s attempt to force her to hand over a batch of private emails linked to the winery dispute. The court reportedly ruled that Pitt failed to meet the legal threshold required to bypass attorney-client privilege protections.However, Pitt had previously scored another discovery-related victory in December 2025, when the judge ordered Jolly to produce certain unredacted non-attorney communications related to the case.The former Hollywood couple finalized their divorce in December 2024 after a long legal battle that lasted eight years, following their 2016 divorce.Pitt and Jolie have six children together – Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne. The kids recently made headlines for their move to legally drop the word “Pete” from their surname.
