Brad & Angie battle again

AFTER a period of relative peace, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce has become a battleground once again.

Jolie filed papers Tuesday claiming that Pitt has not paid “meaningful child support” for their six kids since their split two years ago.

Now Pitt pals are fuming to Page Six that the “Seven” star has in fact been forking over hundreds of thousands a month — and that Jolie is just trying to smear her ex by claiming he’s a “deadbeat dad.”

Insiders claim Pitt has paid “millions for therapists” for the enormous brood, as well as their travel expenses and round-the-clock bodyguards.

“The divorce case has been held in front of a private judge to keep it out of the press. But she filed [the papers on Tuesday] in LA Superior Court knowing that it would go public and that he would be made out to be a deadbeat dad — which he isn’t.”

Said another pal, “Brad has completely lived up to his commitments as far as child support and will continue to do so.” People close to Pitt think that Jolie pre-emptively filed the papers as a warning shot, because Pitt had told her he wanted to restart the formal divorce process.

Sources close to the matter told us that the Jolie-Pitt divorce — which had started off with an ugly slew of unfounded allegations against Pitt — had been put on hold and moved to a private judge so that the couple could sort out thorny custody issues. But sources close to Pitt said Jolie has been “extremely difficult” during the negotiations and that he had told her he’d had enough of the endless back-and-forth over the kids.

The September 2016 split quickly turned nasty, with the FBI being called in to investigate claims that Pitt hit their eldest child, Maddox, during an argument on a plane. He was later cleared on any wrongdoing. As Page Six reported in May, the pair recently fought over Jolie’s plans to take the kids to the UK for the summer for a film shoot.

Reps for Pitt declined to comment and Jolie’s didn’t get back to us.