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The ancient stone chapel became a parking area for the four-wheel all-terrain vehicles the family used to traverse the massive property.Īnd finally came the movie stars and their growing brood of children. “More Californian as opposed to Provençal,” says Bove. “He came more often because he wanted to get things started with the renovation.”Īlong with the possessions came the staff: “nannies, from Vietnam, the Congo, and the U.S.,” according to one published source, along with two personal assistants (not always in residence) “a cook a maid two cleaners a plongeur, or busboy four close-protection bodyguards.” Extensive renovations began immediately. “Vans and vans arriving with furniture, incredibly packaged by the finest movers,” all of it orchestrated by Pitt, says Bove. “He liked the idea that he’d have a vineyard, but he really left the wine thing to me.”įrom his office, Bove watched an armada of vehicles deliver the family’s possessions. “I think at that moment, Brad wasn’t really interested in making wine,” Bove says. He retained 220 acres to operate on his own. Pitt rejected the idea, according to her cross-complaint, telling his business manager it “wasn’t necessary for two reasonable people.” However, as a by-product of their supposedly everlasting love, he would insist that he and Jolie later made a pact agreeing never to “sell their respective interests in Miraval without the other’s consent.” It was a promise Jolie would deny, claiming “no such agreement ever existed.”īove agreed to stay on and continue running Miraval’s wine operation. But it is also the place that marks the beginning of the end of our family.”Įight days before the deal was signed, Jolie’s business manager suggested adding a doomsday clause stipulating that, should the couple ever split, each would have the right to buy the other’s share of Miraval. A place…where I thought I would grow old…. “Above all, it is the place we brought the twins home to, and where we were married over a plaque in my mother’s memory. “Even now impossible to write this without crying,” Jolie would say of Miraval in an email she sent Pitt in 2021, four years after she filed for divorce. It all began with a signature wine, Miraval Côtes de Provence rosé, whose revenues reached $50 million in 2021.

Conceived as a family retreat, it became a high-end commercial enterprise, producing honey, olive oil, a skin care line, and music from Miraval Studios. Their divorce would be even fiercer in its intensity.Īt the center of it all is Miraval. Smith, their attraction was magnetic, fiery, passionate, incendiary, almost insane. From the moment they met, on the set of the 2005 action romance Mr. N ot so long ago, there was no couple in the world bigger than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. “It seemed like they wanted to buy it right then.”īove says Pitt then added, “This is the first place we visited where Angie is smiling.” And then we toured the rest of the property.”īefore the party climbed back on board the helicopter, Pitt told Bove, “We’ll be back.” Bove didn’t doubt it. “Drank the wines of Miraval, which were very good. “Brad and I moved the tables around in the garden, and we had lunch,” says Bove. So much so that, as the morning stretched into afternoon, Bove invited everyone to stay for a meal. You read all this stuff now, but they were a very nice couple, very sweet and obviously in love with each other.”Īnd obviously in love with Miraval. Then Jolie, Pitt, and their brokers scouted the vast estate, a wonderland of olive and oak trees, lavender fields, a lake, vineyards on stone terraces, and ancient stone buildings, including a 35-room manor house.īove sensed that Jolie was allowing her husband to take the lead. Jolie had Shiloh in her arms and “asked for a place to change the baby,” says Bove.

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