Angelina Jolie is attempting to cut one of her ties to ex-husband Brad Pitt by selling her share of the wine business they own together.
The Maleficent star, 46, has asked a judge to allow her to put her shares up for sale.
Angelina has filed a petition in Los Angeles calling for the removal of a temporary restraining order on their assets, which was automatically put in place when their divorce got under way in 2016.
Angelina and Brad, 57, were declared legally single in 2019, though they are yet to finalise a custody arrangement for their six children.
The actress now wants to sell her share of Nouvel LLC, a Luxembourg-based company with interests in the Chateau Miraval vineyard she and Brad bought in France in 2011.
The Once Upon A Time in Hollywood star's Mondo Bongo LLC is an equal shareholder in the vineyard, documents show.
Angelina has said that she does not want to be her ex's “unwilling and disregarded business partner”, but that she is unable to force her former husband to buy her out, the court document states.
They have had “lengthy negotiations” that failed to reach an agreement but Angelina has now found a third party buyer, according to her legal team.
However, “time is of the essence because the buyer has communicated that any delay may result in the buyer pulling out of the deal”.
A judge has yet to respond to the request to lift the automatic temporary restraining orders, but an emergency request was previously rejected in June.
That filing stated Angelina had failed to show “immediate danger/irreparable harm or immediate loss/damage to property”.
The actress sought a divorce in 2016, and in May, Brad was granted joint custody of their children in a tentative ruling.
They are parents to Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15 and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
The oldest, 19-year-old Maddox, is not subject to the custody decision.
