In the news
■ Angelina Jolie last week urged a Los Angeles court to force her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, to present documents that her legal team alleges will prove years of abuse by Pitt. In a motion, Jolie’s attorney accused Pitt of “unrelenting efforts to control and financially drain” Jolie and “attempting to hide his history of abuse, control, and cover-up” by leveraging an expansive nondisclosure agreement between the couple. It’s the latest development in a twoyear legal dispute stemming from Jolie’s 2021 sale of her portion of Chateau Miraval—a French winery the Hollywood stars purchased together in 2008. Jolie now alleges that the broad NDA concealed Pitt’s abuse of her and their six children.
■ Rising movie star Jonathan Majors was this week sentenced to a year of domestic violence counseling for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, British actress Grace Jabbari. In December, a jury found Majors, 34, guilty of assaulting and harassing Jabbari, 31, during a night out in New York City. Security cameras captured Majors grabbing Jabbari and trying to shove her back into an SUV after what Jabbari testified was an argument over messages on his phone. Jabbari said Majors broke one of her fingers during the incident. Prosecutors said the incident was the culmination of a year of abuse. Majors’ career tanked after the assault: Marvel Studios—which had cast Majors as a supervillain—ended its relationship with him, and Searchlight Pictures pulled the release of Magazine Dreams, a film he headlined. His lawyers said this week that Majors—who maintains his innocence and plans to appeal—is “committed to growing and bettering himself.”
■ Country singer Morgan Wallen landed behind bars this week after he apparently tossed a chair six stories off the rooftop of a bar in downtown Nashville; it crashed just 3 feet from two police officers. Onlookers filmed officers handcuffing Wallen, 30, outside the bar, pressing him into their police cruiser, and escorting him to jail, where he was later released on a $15,000 bond. After a meteoric rise in 2023—his One Thing at a Time ranked as the year’s most popular album— the Tennessee native announced plans to open a six-story music bar on Nashville’s touristpacked Broadway. He has now been arrested twice on that very street: once in 2020 for public intoxication and again this week for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.