According to a new court filing, Angelina Jolie’s lawyers have claimed that Brad Pitt was physically abusive towards the actress before the 2016 plane incident that led to her filing for divorce. Pitt has not yet responded to the accusation.

Axar.az reports that the new allegation comes as part of the former couple’s ongoing legal battle over their French winery Chateau Miraval, in which Jolie claims her sale of the property was blocked by Pitt, and that he’d only allow it if she agreed to a “more onerous” and “expansive” NDA.

In the new filing, shared by PEOPLE, Jolie’s lawyers make the claim: “While Pitt’s history of physical abuse of Jolie started well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip from France to Los Angeles.

“This flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on the children as well. Jolie then immediately left him.”

A representative for Pitt has declined to comment on the new abuse allegations.

“This is a pattern of behaviour — whenever there is a decision that goes against the other side they consistently choose to introduce misleading, inaccurate and/or irrelevant information as a distraction,” a friend of Pitt familiar with the former couple’s legal battles told PEOPLE.