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A sombre-looking Brad Pitt was spotted in Los Angeles on Tuesday - hours after his ex-wife Angelina Jolie filed explosive court documents accusing him of having 'choked' one of their six children during a violent dispute on a private jet, hitting another in the face, and slamming the actress against a wall while grabbing her hair.

Pitt, 58, is locked in a legal battle with Jolie over her September 2021 sale of her share of the French winery they jointly owned.

Pitt says she had no right to sell out; Jolie argues that she offered it to him, and a $54.5 million deal was reached, but he pulled out when she mentioned the grim private jet episode during their custody battle.

On Tuesday the Oscar-winning actor, dressed in head-to-toe denim and white sneakers, was seen rapidly exiting a business compound in Los Angeles.  

Pitt denied hitting the children in 2016, but admitted to yelling at them.

A source close to Pitt told DailyMail.com that the actor felt Jolie was spreading 'false information', in a bid to 'get what she wants'.

'She continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an event that happened six years ago by adding completely untrue information each time she fails to get what she wants. Her story is constantly evolving,' the source said. 

'She had the chance to share this during the lengthy custody trial, which resulted in the judge granting 50-50 custody to Pitt following in-depth observations and analysis by doctors, therapists, and other experts. 

'Her and her team go back to the same thing month after month with new and false information.'

Jolie, meanwhile, was on Tuesday on the other side of the country, spotted in New York City with their daughter Zahara, 17.

In her court documents, filed on Tuesday, Jolie said Pitt's behavior on the September 2016 flight from France to California left the children crying and traumatized, and left her with injuries to her back and elbow.

Five days after the flight she filed for divorce, and in September 2021 she sold her stake in the French winery she co-owned with Pitt. He sued her over the sale, and on Tuesday she counter-sued, blaming him for sparking the highly-public mud slinging.

'She has gone to great lengths to try to shield their children from reliving the pain Pitt inflicted on the family that day,' Jolie's lawyers write.

'But when Pitt filed this lawsuit seeking to reassert control over Jolie's financial life and compel her to rejoin her ex-husband as a frozen-out business partner, Pitt forced Jolie to publicly defend herself on these issues for the first time.'

Jolie spelled out in detail the violent altercation in September 2016, which she said led to their divorce and the current dispute over the winery.

The couple, first linked up in 2005, bought the winery, Chateau Miraval, in 2008.

Jolie said that, when they bought the property, their respective representatives discussed signing an agreement, setting out the terms of how the property would be split if the couple separated.

But she said Pitt did not want any such agreement.

Jolie's lawyers say that Pitt's financial manager wrote in an email: 'Early in the process I raised the issue of a buy / sell agreement between A & B but was told by Brad it wasn't necessary for two reasonable people to have such an agreement.'

The idea was dropped, and the pair were married at the chateau in August 2014.

In the court documents, she said she considered it an investment for their family, plus a home.

Jolie accused Pitt of failing to consult her on the development of the estate and installing a fifth swimming pool at a cost of one million euros.

But she said she did not object at the time.

'Jolie had always taken an active role in design for any home she had lived in (and those she has since lived in), and when she and Pitt purchased the chateau, initially expected to do the same for their new home,' her lawyers write.

'But Pitt pushed for creative control consistent with his own taste and vision.

'While Jolie would have preferred a more collaborative approach, she acquiesced to Pitt's desire to take control over the project, although she sometimes questioned why, for example, the chateau needed a fifth pool at the cost of one million euros, or why the same staircase needed to be rebuilt four times.

'If Jolie ever questioned such expenditures, Pitt defended them as critical to his vision for the chateau.'

Jolie said that the marriage 'came to an end' on the September 14, 2016, flight.

'Throughout the

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