Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Settle 8 Years After Filing for Divorce (Exclusive)

Eight years after their divorce, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reached an agreement Mary Star filed to end her two-year marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

According to Jolie’s lawyers, Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, signed their divorce on Monday, December 30.

“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. “She and the children left all of the possessions they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since then she has focused on finding peace and healing for her family,” Jolie’s attorney James Simon tells PEOPLE in a statement. “This is just one part” of a long-running process that began eight years ago. Honestly, Angelina is exhausted, but she’s relieved that this one part is over.

A source close to Jolie adds, “She doesn’t speak ill of (Pitt) publicly or privately. She tried very hard to be bright after a dark time.”

A representative for Pitt declined to confirm or comment.

Jolie filed for dissolution of marriage on September 19, 2016, just days after a private flight on which she alleged that Pitt had abused her and their six children; According to the investigation at the time, authorities did not charge him and Jolie declined to press charges. Since the filing, “neither Jolie nor any of the children have ever set foot back in Miraval, where they lived until then,” Jolie’s lawyers said.

Four months later, the former couple released a joint statement saying they had agreed to settle their divorce in a private forum and to keep future details of their divorce confidential by using a private judge.

“The parties and their attorneys have signed agreements to protect the privacy of their children and families by keeping all court documents confidential and by appointing a private judge to make all necessary legal decisions and to facilitate the expeditious resolution of any remaining issues,” is the statement.

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It concluded: “The parents are determined to act as a united front to bring about recovery and reunification.”

Ahead of the 2017 privacy agreement, Pitt and Jolie were embroiled in “tense” divorce negotiations, involving custody issues and exchanging harsh allegations in Los Angeles Superior Court filings.

In January 2017, they agreed to seal confidential records about their six children, most of whom are now adults: Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Vivienne and Knox (now 16).

The ex-partners, whose divorce had failed, were declared legally single in 2019. (Pitt has been dating LA jewelry manager Ines de Ramon, 34, since 2022.)

In the years that followed, the former couple battled over custody and legal issues surrounding the $164 million French estate and winery they shared, Château Miraval.

Pitt sued Jolie in February 2022 over her sale of her share of Château Miraval Grave robber Star filed a countersuit saying her ex was “waging a vindictive war against her.”

The lawsuit was filed by Nouvel, a company founded by Jolie. The company claimed that Pitt “hatched a hitherto successful plan to take control of Château Miraval” after the couple’s split in 2016.

Speaking about the countersuit, a source close to Pitt told PEOPLE: “This is just the latest in a series of deliberate attempts to mislead, recycle and reposition the truth about what has happened over the last six years, believing that reasonable people would be deceived by these blatant misrepresentations.”

In a case management statement, Jolie called Pitt’s legal action “frivolous, malicious and part of a problematic pattern.” The actress insists that she and Pitt did not have a “secret, unwritten, unspoken contract” requiring them to seek approval before selling their shares in Château Miraval.

The couple continued to fight over Miraval throughout 2024, which is unrelated to their divorce proceedings. In November, Jolie won a legal victory when a judge in the case ruled that Pitt must disclose documents, including emails and text messages, that Jolie’s attorney, Paul Murphy, claims show her allegations of abuse against Pitt and the “years-long cover-up.” his allegations would prove part.

That same month, Pitt also scored his own victory in the winery dispute when Jolie’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit were denied, closing the case with possible evidence that there was a written agreement between the former couple to sell it, according to a Pitt source As the trial approached, he said: “proves the legitimacy of his claims.”

His lawyers called Jolie’s request for the documents “a sensationalistic fishing expedition.”