Angelina Jolie is reportedly withdrawing her lawsuit against the FBI regarding documents tied to an alleged plane confrontation with her ex-husband Brad Pitt.

According to People magazine and Fox News, the Oscar-winning actress filed a Freedom of Information Act request against the FBI to obtain further information about its investigation into the widely publicized altercation in 2016. She has now decided to drop the prolonged case, as reported on Wednesday.

During a private flight in September 2016, it was claimed that Pitt acted aggressively towards both his then-wife and their children. However, Pitt has denied any physical confrontation took place.

Following the flight, both the FBI and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services launched investigations into the incident. Jolie marked the day after the incident in her divorce filing as the couple’s separation date.

The FBI closed its investigation later that year without bringing any charges against Pitt, who was also exonerated from allegations of child abuse by the LA’s DCFS.

The couple, who share six children—Maddox (23), Pax (20), Zahara (19), Shiloh (18), and 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox—had kids aged between 8 and 15 during the alleged plane incident.

In July, Pitt requested that Jolie’s demand for his private communications about the family flight be dismissed, describing it as a “serious intrusion” that went beyond the scope of their trip’s details.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie 2016 plane incident: Their accounts

In an October 2022 court filing relating to the incident, Jolie’s attorneys alleged that Pitt “grabbed Jolie by the head, shook her, and then shook her again by the shoulders, before pushing her against the bathroom wall” during their flight from their winery in France to California.

The lawsuit asserted that Pitt began “insulting Jolie” and when one of the children defended her, he “lunged at his own child while Jolie intervened to stop him.” Consequently, Pitt “fell backward into the airplane seats, causing injuries to Jolie’s back and elbow,” the suit claimed.

In an April legal document, Jolie stated that Pitt’s abuse “began long before” the reported 2016 incident.

“While Pitt’s history of aggression towards Jolie started prior to the family’s September 2016 trip, this particular flight marked the first instance he inflicted physical aggression towards the children as well. It prompted Jolie to leave him immediately,” her court file claimed.

According to Jolie’s attorney, Pitt made “relentless attempts to control and financially exhaust” her, alongside “efforts to conceal his history of abuse and manipulation.”

Pitt’s attorney responded at the time, asserting that he would continue to address Jolie’s claims in court, stating that while the actor acknowledges his genuine actions, he does not accept areas of her narrative that are inaccurate.

“Brad has admitted to everything he is responsible for from the start—unlike the other side—but he will not take responsibility for things he did not do,” Pitt’s lawyer, Anne Kiley, said in a statement to The Associated Press. “He has faced all forms of personal attacks and mischaracterizations.”

The ex-couple is still engaged in an ongoing legal dispute over Château Miraval, the winery they once owned together and where they tied the knot in 2014.