Has Brad Pitt won his war of the rosés with Angelina Jolie by seizing back the French vineyard Chateau Miraval estate?

Brad Pitt has seized back control of the French vineyard he owned with ex-wife Angelina Jolie in the latest twist in the so-called ‘War of the Rosés’.

The Chateau Miraval estate, which produces an award-winning sparkling rosé, is at the centre of a long-running court battle between the pair.

Pitt’s lawyers have accused Jolie of deliberately depriving him of complete ownership and ‘forcing a stranger into [his] family home’ by selling her share of the business to Russian businessman Yuri Shefler.

Now a court in Luxembourg has stripped Mr Shefler’s company of a portion of shares originally gifted to Ms Jolie by Pitt – putting him back in the driving seat.

A source close to the actor said the ruling leaves Schefler, who is head of the Stolichnaya vodka empire, with ‘virtually no say’ in the multi-million-pound business in Provence.

Brad Pitt’s lawyers have accused Angelina Jolie of deliberately depriving him of complete ownership and ‘forcing a stranger into [his] family home’ by selling her share to a Russian businessman

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The 1,300-acre Chateau Miraval estate in 2008 prior to the celebrity couple purchasing it as 60-40 partners, with Pitt the majority shareholder