Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reach divorce settlement after eight year legal battle

Hollywood A-listers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly reached a divorce settlement after a bitter eight-year legal battle.

The warring exes finally signed off on their divorce on December 30, but a jury trial, requested by both sides, is still expected.

“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,” Jolie’s lawyer James Simon told People.

“This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”

Both sides have requested a jury trial which is expected to last 10 to 15 days but have agreed to mediation as an alternative to resolving their settlement, according to People.

Pitt and Jolie, who met on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2004 while Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston, married at their French vineyard Château Miraval in 2014.

The pair are parents to six children: Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 after an argument on a private jet allegedly turned physical.

In court filings, the Maria star claimed Pitt poured beer and wine over his family and injured her by throwing himself backwards into a row of seats while she was clinging to his back.

She has also claimed that Pitt — twice named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive — was physically and emotionally abusive to her before the fight that ended their marriage.

Attorneys for Jolie have previously cited a “history of abuse, control and cover-ups” and claimed Jolie had “testimony, emails, photographs, and other evidence” to back up her allegations.

Pitt has denied all allegations of physical abuse and was not charged following an FBI probe into the incident on the flight.

Separately, the couple are engaged in a legal battle over the Château Miraval vineyard.

Pitt claims he gave Jolie half the winery as a wedding gift, with the condition that if she ever wanted to sell it she had to offer it to him first.

But Jolie sold her share to a third party, which Pitt claimed was a breach of the deal. Jolie denies there was ever an agreement.

In November, a Los Angeles court granted a petition from the third-eldest child of the former couple to legally change her name from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.