Personal bitterness has dragged on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce for eight years, says magazine: ‘Neither will give in’

Since 2016, news about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s tumultuous divorce has been circulating non-stop. The former couple has been fighting in court for eight years and has been unable to resolve the remaining issues to put an end to the chaos once and for all. According to a source from People magazine, personal bitterness prevents either of them from giving in to the other’s demands.

Since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, “their disagreement began” and the relationship “became unpleasant and not a good place for anyone,” the magazine says. “All this bitterness is partly why the divorce has dragged on for so many years. Neither of them is going to put it behind them,” it adds.

Even after they were both declared legally single by a judge in 2019, the former couple couldn’t move on: “You would think they would have gotten over it by now and just worked it out.”

Another source said the children are also feeling the effects: “It’s really sad for the kids, but it’s also sad for the parents. Divorce, especially one that’s so publicized, can be challenging for the whole family.”

Jolie and Pitt are parents to Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16. The Hollywood actor has no contact with his older children and Shiloh recently officially dropped her father’s surname.

In addition to the divorce proceedings, the former couple are still at odds in the lawsuit over the sale of her share of their French winery, Château Miraval. In the most recent update on the case, the judge ruled in favor of Jolie, who was sued for trying to sell her share of the property without consulting her ex-husband.

Jolie’s attorney, Paul Murphy, said in a statement about the winery: “Angelina looks forward to the eventual end of this litigation with its false narratives that continue to harm the family and interfere with their ability to heal.”

Pitt’s lawyers have accused Jolie in court documents of making efforts to turn the business dispute into a re-litigation of the former couple’s divorce case.