Brad: I loaned Angie $8M

BRAD Pitt has fought back in court against Angelina Jolie’s claim that he’s a deadbeat dad.

On Tuesday, Jolie claimed in court papers that her ex had not paid “meaningful child support” for their six kids since their 2016 split. And on Wednesday, Pitt fought back, filing his own papers, calling Jolie’s claim “a thinly veiled effort to manipulate media coverage” and revealing that he loaned Jolie millions of dollars to buy a home.

In the papers, lodged at LA Superior Court, Pitt’s lawyers said that the “Fight Club” star “adamantly disputes the contention that he has not paid child support.”

In fact, his briefs claim that Pitt “previously loaned [Jolie] $8 million to assist her in purchasing her current residence and has paid $1.3 million in bills for the benefit of [Jolie] and the minor children.”

In the papers, the lawyers suggest that Jolie’s team is just using the child support allegations as a way to smear Pitt publicly. Referring to a meeting that happened just last week — in which Jolie’s team could have brought up concerns about money in private — Pitt’s camp said, “At that time, [Jolie’s lawyers] made no mention of any child support issues, and the sudden effort to schedule on that subject is calculated to increase the conflict.”

Sources told Page Six that things became nasty just recently. “Brad and Angelina had more arguments this summer over the kids, and while they had earlier this year halted the official divorce proceedings in the hopes of sorting out custody privately in front of a private judge, in reality they weren’t resolving anything.” The source said Pitt “finally decided he’d had enough, and gave Angie warning he wanted to file to restart the official divorce proceedings in LA Superior Court, just to get things over and done with.” We’re told Jolie asked for a week to “think about it,” then “stuck the knife in” by filing her own papers, demanding the divorce be finalized and calling him a delinquent dad. Jolie’s reps didn’t immediately get back to us.