Angelina Jolie Hopes Brad Pitt Will ‘Cease Attacking Her’ After Divorce (Unique Supply)

Angelina Jolie hopes she and Brad Pitt can flip over a brand new leaf in 2025 after settling their years-long divorce battle.

On Monday, Dec. 30, the exes signed off on their divorce, placing an finish on the authorized matter eight years after she initially filed to finish their marriage in September 2016.

Jolie’s divorce legal professional James Simon of Hersh Mannis stated that the actress, 49, has been “centered on discovering peace and therapeutic for his or her household,” and, “Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, however she is relieved this one half is over.” A rep for Pitt, 61, declined to touch upon the divorce finalization.

A supply near Jolie tells PEOPLE that she hopes Pitt can now “transfer on” and “cease attacking her.”

“Brad has efficiently used his energy and his privilege to cowl up his conduct at his household’s expense, to punish Angelina for leaving, and even to aim to color her because the motive why his relationship is so difficult with the youngsters,” says the supply.

“Angelina hopes the finalization of their divorce will allow him to maneuver on, cease attacking her, and as a substitute assist heal their household,” the supply provides.

A supply near Pitt rejects the characterization, telling PEOPLE that Jolie has engaged in “one-sided assaults for the previous eight years, together with a endless distortion of details and projecting their very own habits onto others, inflicting super collateral injury to these in and across the household.”

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Pitt and Jolie, who share six kids, are nonetheless at odds in a separate lawsuit over the French vineyard they as soon as owned collectively. He sued her for allegedly breaching an settlement they’d when she bought away her half of Château Miraval for $67 million in October 2021.

In June 2024, Jolie stated by way of her lawyer in that case that Pitt ought to “finish the preventing and eventually put their household on a transparent path towards therapeutic” by dropping the lawsuit.

On Dec. 30, a Jolie supply added: “Sadly, till he drops his lawsuit, this household won’t have the peace and therapeutic they so very a lot want and deserve.” Nonetheless, “Till he ends the Miraval lawsuit, Angelina will proceed to face as much as him,” says the supply.

On Tuesday, Dec. 31, a supply near Pitt calls Miraval “an ideal instance” of Jolie’s strategy to attacking Pitt.

“Brad constructed a rare, more and more worthwhile enterprise and he or she selected to intentionally disregard their settlement, and as a substitute of finishing negotiations for him to purchase her out and protecting Miraval absolutely within the household and ending the battles, she as a substitute selected to promote to a complete stranger not aligned with the corporate’s imaginative and prescient so she might take the cash for herself and punish him,” says the supply.

In November, a Pitt supply stated his latest victories within the growing vineyard case “demonstrates the legitimacy of his claims and demonstrates but once more the opposite aspect’s speak isn’t backed up with substance.”