Angelina Jolie filed anonymous FBI lawsuit alleging assault by Brad Pitt, says report

Angelina Jolie has reportedly been identified as the plaintiff in an anonymous 2016 FBI lawsuit alleging assault by Brad Pitt. According to Variety, a report from Puck claimed that Angelina told an FBI agent that Brad ‘physically and verbally assaulted’ her and their children when they were aboard a private plane.

According to Variety, Brad Pitt allegedly took Angelina to the back of the plane, grabbed her shoulders and screamed at her. The ‘Salt’ actor further alleged that another physical altercation occurred on the same flight, which caused her injuries. She also mentioned that Pitt was drinking at the time, and had poured beer on her.

However, Pitt’s team has denied all allegations.

As per the report, the FBI agent then met the assistant US attorney and said that they would not pursue criminal charges against ‘The Bullet Train’ actor. Following this, Jolie anonymously filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the FBI in order to obtain documents related to the federal investigation against Pitt.

According to Aneglina Jolie’s complaint, which was amended in August, ‘Ms. Doe has been seeking the withheld information for [several] years in an effort to ensure that her children receive qualified…care and…counseling to address harm suffered…Information withheld by DOJ and the FBI contains evidence of the harm. The persistent denial of that information to Ms. Doe…a victim of the assault herself — has hampered, and continues to hamper, her efforts to obtain for her children necessary ongoing care and medical attention, and has further harmed the children in the family law system.’

Brad Pitt was reportedly under investigation for child abuse by the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services in 2016 after he allegedly got physical with his son, Maddox, on his family’s private plane. His son had reportedly also intervened in a fight between him and Angelina.

Brad Pitt’s team denied that he hurt his son and issued a statement to People magazine, saying that Pitt was emphatic that it did not reach the level of physical abuse.

The celebrity couple filed for divorce in 2016, and Pitt publicly gave up drinking.

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