The misogynistic hate being flung at Angelina Jolie over her divorce feels like Amber Heard all over again | Arwa Mahdawi

I of course don't know what happened between Jolie and Brad Pitt, but the social media vigilantes have clearly decided they do

Hollywood certainly loves its remakes. Earlier this year, all eyes were on the messy and misogynistic Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial; Depp won and Heard was publicly torn apart. Now the long-running legal battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has escalated and it looks, depressingly, as if Jolie is going to get the Heard treatment.

Here's where things stand: Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt six years ago but the divorce hasn't yet been finalised because the actors are still arguing over custody of their children and assets (they have a lot of both). Pitt has accused Jolie of selling a stake in their winery, Chateau Miraval, in an underhand manner to a Russian oligarch. Somehow the invasion of Ukraine got dragged into all this, with Pitt arguing that the Russian ties hurt the winery's brand.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist

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