Angelina Jolie has replied to Brad Pitt’s lawsuit over the wine agency they formerly co-owned together, airing a few surprising new claims in opposition to her ex-husband involving their 2016 aircraft incident.

Tuesday’s pass grievance, filed through Jolie’s attorneys in Los Angeles, carries allegations about the Sept. 14, 2016, personal aircraft altercation that caused her divorce filing days later. (A redacted FBI document that Jolie anonymously submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for earlier this 12 months blanketed many of the equal allegations about the incident this past August.)

The new filing reads, “When one of the children verbally defended Jolie, Pitt lunged at his very own baby and Jolie grabbed him from in the back of to prevent him. To get Jolie off his again, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane’s seats injuring Jolie’s back and elbow. The youngsters rushed in and all bravely tried to defend every other. Before it became over, Pitt choked one of the youngsters and struck some other within the face. Some of the kids pleaded with Pitt to forestall. They have been all worried.”

The files declare that over the course of “many worrying hours” on the flight, Pitt “periodically emerged from the returned of the plane to yell and swear at them” and “at one point, he poured beer on Jolie; at every other, he poured beer and purple wine on the children.”

Jolie “has long gone to super lengths to try to protect their children from reliving the ache Pitt inflicted at the circle of relatives that day,” the submitting reads, “however whilst Pitt filed this lawsuit searching for to reassert control over Jolie’s economic existence and compel her to rejoin her ex-husband as a frozen-out commercial enterprise partner, Pitt pressured Jolie to publicly shield herself on those problems for the primary time.”

“It’s exceptionally unhappy that she continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an occasion that came about 6 years ago, including in completely unfaithful facts to try to get extra interest for herself on the expense in their circle of relatives,” a supply near Pitt tells PEOPLE. “She had the opportunity to share information with regulation enforcement who made the choice now not to press prices.

She had the chance to percentage this in the course of the lengthy custody trial, which resulted within the decide granting 50-50 custody to Pitt. She has resorted to trying to preserve rehashing the identical factor.

Going lower back to the same factor month after month with new and nevertheless fake records for purposes that best she can understand.” (However, the non-public choose overseeing their custody case turned into disqualified via an appeals courtroom and the ruling did no longer cross into impact; the case is ongoing).

All About Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s 2016 Plane Ride That Led to Divorce — and Years of Tension In his June lawsuit, Pitt accused Jolie of unfavorable the reputation of Château Miraval (the South of France vineyard and home they bought lower back in 2008) via promoting her half of to a stranger. Pitt stated that they had agreed to in no way promote their respective hobbies within the family business with out the other’s consent.

Tuesday’s cross criticism says that Pitt’s declare is “false” and “no such agreement ever existed.” The submitting also claimed that Jolie did provide to sell her portion to Pitt however he allegedly “demanded” she sign a non-disclosure settlement barring her from “speaking outdoor of court approximately Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their youngsters.”

“Jolie refused to conform to such a provision, and Pitt walked faraway from the deal,” the attorneys say inside the files. Never leave out a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free weekly newsletter to get the most important information of the week added on your inbox every Friday.

When Pitt allegedly insisted he wouldn’t purchase Jolie’s interests from her except she signed the “gag order” to no longer speak out about the abuse claims, moved the negotiations to be treated by way of her representatives, say the documents.

“Jolie couldn’t take any extra abuse,” the documents add. The filing references the “stressful breakup of their circle of relatives and the years spent trying to heal their circle of relatives” and notes that Jolie “never spoke publicly approximately the activities that led to their separation.”

Pitt and Jolie, who had been declared legally single through a judge back in 2019, are parents to Maddox, 21, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 16, and 14-12 months-antique twins Vivienne and Knox.

The Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services and FBI had investigated Pitt after an anonymous tip about a drunken argument he were given into with Jolie whilst their own family traveled on a personal jet from France again to their Los Angeles domestic. Pitt allegedly got “verbally abusive” and “bodily” with one in all their children at the plane, a source stated on the time. Pitt denied any abuse.

The FBI closed its investigation with the aid of November of that 12 months with no expenses towards Pitt. Earlier that month, DCFS also concluded its investigation into the incident earlier with out a findings of abuse.

Last year, Jolie pondered on her divorce even as speaking with The Guardian, pronouncing, “I’m now not the form of individual who makes decisions like the selections I needed to make gently. It took loads for me to be in a role where I felt I needed to break free the daddy of my youngsters.” Jolie — who noted “there may be lots I can not say” — said she felt “broken” with the aid of her reviews, and that she wanted her family to find a way to transport forward, “consisting of their dad.”

Jolie’s former commercial enterprise Nouvel also filed a counter criticism in this case, accusing Pitt of “waging a vindictive battle against” Jolie ever considering she filed for divorce back in 2016 and “masterminded” a plan to “capture manage” of the winery.

In his lawsuit, Pitt’s criminal team stated Miraval became his “passion” challenge that grew “right into a multimillion-dollar international commercial enterprise and one of the global’s maximum fantastically seemed manufacturers of rosé wine” thru his paintings, and Jolie contributed “not anything to Miraval’s achievement.”

“Jolie pursued after which consummated the purported sale in secret, purposely retaining Pitt inside the darkish, and knowingly violating Pitt’s contractual rights,” study the filing from Pitt’s group at the time.