Angelina Jolie drops case and searches for documents related to plane incident

Angelina Jolie is ending her legal battle against the Justice Department and the FBI over documents related to the alleged 2016 plane crash involving her then-husband Brad Pitt.

Under the anonymous name “Jane Doe”, 49-year-old Jolie applied for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2021 to release FBI documents about the incident to her. Court documents obtained by PEOPLE indicate this Mary star dropped the case on Wednesday, September 25th.

The heavily redacted documents tracked by Jolie detailed an alleged drunken altercation between Pitt, 60, and his then-wife on September 14, 2016 – days before Jolie filed for divorce, ending a relationship that began in 2005 , took place.

Since then, they have waged a contentious legal battle over finances and custody of their children Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.

Her children were reportedly present on a private plane during the alleged conflict, which led to the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services and the FBI investigating Pitt. A source said at the time that Pitt had become “verbally abusive” and “physical” toward one of their children, which he denied. Later in 2016, the FBI completed its investigation without filing charges against Pitt, and DCFS also completed its investigation, concluding that no abuse was found.

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Amid the ongoing legal battle over her French winery Château Miraval and her wine company, Jolie responded to a 2022 lawsuit filed by her ex with details of the alleged incident, including that Pitt “choked one of the children and punched another in the face.” A source close to Pitt told PEOPLE at the time: “It's incredibly sad that she continues to rehash, revise and reinterpret her description of an event that happened six years ago, while adding completely untrue information.”

When Politico reported on the FOIA case in 2022, attorney Amanda Kramer told the medium: “I cannot comment on the identity of Jane Doe, who has attempted to protect the family's privacy. Our position is that victims and survivors should be able to access federal records of crimes they experienced or reported, as is standard practice at the state level, so that they can seek help and trauma care and legal protection for their children and be able to apply yourself.

Kramer, who filed the documents on September 25, added at the time: “Our client has sought such documents for years, but has been turned away and had to resort to legal action to obtain these much-needed documents.”

Reps for Jolie and Pitt did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.