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On 12 July 2026 the twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie reached adulthood, announced they would no longer maintain a relationship with Brad Pitt and formally dropped his surname, remaining permanently with their mother in Los Angeles. Their coming of age lifted the custody restriction that had required Jolie to stay in the United States. Jolie’s Los Feliz mansion was listed in early May for about $30 million; the sale has not yet closed, delaying her planned relocation to Cambodia where she owns a house and has long‑standing humanitarian ties, while she intends to keep a professional base in New York. In May a Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that Pitt could not compel Jolie to produce privileged emails concerning The legal dispute over the Château Miraval wine estate, a victory for Jolie in the protracted dispute over the French vineyard. Subsequent rulings have ordered depositions of the buyers, allowed Pitt to pursue a $35 million damages claim, and kept the litigation active. Parallel to the legal battles, several of the six children have legally changed their surnames to Jolie—Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara, Knox and others—while Pax continues to use the hyphenated name and maintains contact with Pitt’s relatives. Pitt has confirmed a relationship with jewelry designer Inés de Ramón and repeatedly stated he estate has no plans to marry. In early August 2026 intensified as Brad Pitt’s lawyers filed a petition in the Los Angeles Superior Court demanding legal team seeks court orders to compel Angelina Jolie to produce her income, film‑contract and profit‑participation detailed financial records for 2017‑2021 (or 2017‑2019 in a separate filing). The request aims from 2017 through 2021. Pitt argues these documents, including film contracts and profit-participation statements, are necessary to verify evaluate Jolie’s claim that she sold her stake in Château Miraval the vineyard to achieve financial independence after following their 2016 separation. The sale, valued at approximately $67 million, involved a company controlled by Yuri Shefler. Jolie’s counsel argues has consistently objected, characterizing the documents have demands as an invasion of privacy and an attempt to overreach the scope of the litigation. Her lawyers maintain that she has already been supplied provided certain records for 2020‑2021 2020–2021 and that have denied allegations of financial distress. In a recent development, Pitt’s team indicated they might withdraw the broader demand infringes on her privacy. request if Jolie agrees to specific stipulations: stating she was not under ‘economic pressure’ before January 1, 2020, and confirming Pitt did not exert ‘economic coercion’ between 2017 and 2019. This financial tug-of-war is a subset of the broader, unresolved litigation regarding the ownership of the French estate. While the couple’s divorce was finalized in 2024, the Miraval case remains active, with a main trial scheduled for August 2027.