The Oscars served a $400-a-bottle champagne made in part by Brad Pitt's winery — the one at the center of the ex-power couple's ugly legal battle and abuse allegations

• Attendees of this year's Oscars were served Fleur de Miraval, a $400 rosé champagne.
• The wine was a collaboration involving Brad Pitt, who purchased a winery with ex Angelina Jolie.
• That winery, Chateau Miraval, is the subject of an ongoing legal fight between the former couple.

It was the second year in a row that Hollywood's biggest stars were served champagne produced, in part, by Brad Pitt. But it was the first time that the sparkling rosé, retailing for $400, was served at the Oscars since Pitt's ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, publicly accused her former partner of abuse. 

Dubbed Fleur de Miraval, this year's A-lister bubbly came from a "meeting of minds" between Brad Pitt and the Perrin family, according to a press release, extending a collaboration that began when Pitt and Jolie were still running their Château Miraval estate together.

The Perrin family has, since 2013, produced wines from Château Miraval as part of a 50-50 joint venture, according to the Los Angeles Times; this year's wine, however, was made using grapes from another vineyard, run by the Peters family, which operates an estate in the Champagne region of France.

The decision to pick a wine associated with Pitt is a somewhat curious one in light of Hollywood's recent attempts to confront abuse in the film industry.

In 2021, Jolie sold her stake in Château Miraval — where she married Pitt in 2014 — and claimed, in a court filing, that she had declined to sell it to her former husband over his alleged insistence that she sign "a nondisclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt's physical and emotional abuse of her and their children," The New York Times reported.

Jolie, in the court filing — a response to her former husband's own litigation, in which he accuses her of breaking an agreement not to sell her stake in the vineyard without first obtaining his consent — claimed that her former husband was verbally and physically abusive, alleging that he choked and hit their children during a flight in 2016, the year that she filed for divorce.

Pitt has denied the allegations, which were investigated by the FBI, and has not been charged with a crime. His attorneys did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

Jolie's former investment company has also sued Pitt over the French vineyard, accusing him of conspiring with the Perrin family to improperly transfer trademarks that belong to Château Miraval to their separate joint venture, resulting in "devastating financial consequences."

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Oscars, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.