New Delhi, June 28 -- Actor and producer Brad Pitt has scored a partial win in his long-running legal fight with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over Chateau Miraval, the French winery estate the former couple once owned together and where they were married in 2014.

Court papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court show that Judge Cindy Panuco partly approved Pitt's request to question several business associates linked to Jolie's former share in the winery. The decision is the latest turn in a closely watched legal dispute that has been underway since 2022 and centres on the sale of Jolie's stake in the wine business.

Pitt and Jolie, who finalised their divorce in 2019 after years of separation proceedings, have remained locked in litigat...