Angelina Jolie is ending her authorized battle towards the Division of Justice and FBI over paperwork linked to the alleged 2016 plane incident involving her then-husband Brad Pitt.
Underneath the nameless “Jane Doe,” Jolie, 49, had requested in a Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) in 2021 that FBI paperwork in regards to the incident be launched to her. Courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE point out the Maria star dropped the case on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The extremely redacted documents Jolie had been pursuing detailed an allegedly drunken altercation on Sept. 14, 2016, between Pitt, 60, and his then-wife — which got here days earlier than Jolie filed for divorce, ending a relationship that started in 2005.
They’ve since undergone a contentious authorized battle over funds and custody of their kids Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
Their kids had been reportedly current for the alleged battle on a personal aircraft that had triggered the Los Angeles Division of Youngster and Household Providers and FBI to analyze Pitt. A supply mentioned on the time that Pitt turned “verbally abusive” and “bodily” with certainly one of their youngsters, which he denied. Later in 2016, the FBI closed its investigation with no costs towards Pitt and DCFS additionally concluded its investigation, concluding no findings of abuse.
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Amid the continued authorized battle over their French vineyard Château Miraval and wine firm, Jolie responded to a 2022 lawsuit from her ex with details of the alleged incident, together with that Pitt had “choked one of many kids and struck one other within the face.” A supply near Pitt informed PEOPLE on the time, “It is extremely unhappy that she continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an occasion that occurred 6 years in the past, including in fully unfaithful data.”
When Politico reported the FOIA case in 2022, legal professional Amanda Kramer informed the outlet, “I am unable to touch upon the identification of Jane Doe, who has sought to protect the household’s privateness. Our place is that victims and survivors ought to have the ability to entry federal company information of crimes they skilled or reported, as is widespread on the state degree, to allow them to advocate for assist and trauma care and authorized safety for his or her kids and themselves.”
Kramer — who submitted the Sept. 25 paperwork — added on the time, “Our consumer has been looking for such information for years and has been stonewalled and has needed to resort to courtroom motion to obtain these much-needed information.”
Reps for Jolie and Pitt didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.