The “Bullet Train” actor has put on the market a California compound he has owned for three decades.
The one, only, Brad Pitt is breaking ties with the estate where he and Angelina Jolie raised their children.
The 59-year-old has been quietly searching for a buyer for the Los Angeles property she bought from Cassandra Peterson. better known as Elvira, Mistress of Darkness – in 1994, a source confirmed People’s, The A-lister reportedly spent $1.7 million on the property at the time, and later added several neighboring lots – creating a mega-estate with a skating rink, a tennis court and a swimming pool spread across 1.9 acres. PEOPLE reports he’s seeking around $40 million for his creation in the city’s Los Feliz neighborhood.
As he’s listing the mansion, the source said Pitt is “looking for something a little smaller” around LA.
While size is clearly the main issue, there are plenty of emotional reasons to part with the property: The sprawling abode is where Pitt and his ex-wife Jolie, 47, raised their six children – Maddox, 21 , Pax, 19, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 16, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 14. The once-iconic pair have been locked in a divorce battle on property and children since breaking up in 2016.
also a palatial property closer to home Jolie bought it in 2017 for $24.95 million after the couple split. He previously reported that the “Maleficent” star’s grandson, Cecile B. The DeMille estate’s proximity to Pitt’s home in the Los Feliz neighborhood was actually part of the reason they bought it.
“I wanted it to be closer to his father, who is only 5 minutes away,” she told British Vogue,
It also helps that, in addition to being close to the father of her children, the luxurious abode is steeped in history and opulence — to the extent that the actress feels intimidated.
“I felt a little pressured to go in [Charlie] Chaplin would hang out,” she said in the interview. “What I like most is that there is no recreation room, but there are so many walks and places to walk and think. I feel so lucky at the moment that we have this.