Brad Pitt has quietly put his longtime Los Angeles compound on the market for around $40 million amid his ongoing divorce battle from Angelina Jolie, which has included domestic violence allegations and reports that his relationship with his six children has become “strained.”
A real estate source confirmed to People this week that the 59-year-old actor has listed his 1.9-acre property in the Los Feliz neighborhood, which Pitt once referred to as his kids’ “childhood home.” The property boasts several structures, including a 6,692-square-foot Craftsman main house, as well as a swimming pool, private tennis pavilion and skate park, according to Architectural Digest.
Pitt reportedly is looking to downsize and wants “something smaller” in the Los Angeles area, the real estate source told People.
But among the numerous properties Pitt has bought and sold over the years, this one has special meaning. The Oscar winner began creating his beloved Los Feliz compound in 1994, a couple of years after he first shot to stardom with his charismatic performance as a hunky hitchhiker in “Thelma & Louise,” Architectural Digest said. The actor paid $1.7 million for a mansion that belonged to Cassandra Peterson, better known by her alter ego, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Over the next decade, the actor picked up two contiguous properties to expand the compound and purchased two more after after he divorced Jennifer Aniston and he and Jolie became a Hollywood super couple in 2005, Architectural Digest said.
When they were together, Pitt and Jolie were known for their globe-trotting lifestyle, traveling with their children from country to country for movie locations and for her UN humanitarian work. The couple also grew their real estate portfolio, purchasing a home in New Orleans in 2007 and Château Miraval in France in 2011.
At the estate and winery in the French countryside, Pitt and Jolie launched their eponymous wine brand, best known for its rosé. They also tied the knot in a small, private ceremony, with only their six children — Maddox, 21, Pax, 19, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 16, and 14-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — in attendance.
Still, the Los Feliz compound remained the family’s home base, as Pitt told GQ But all that changed in 2016 when Jolie stunned Hollywood by filing for divorce. Their breakup ignited a bitter and protracted divorce in which the exes went to court over child custody and the division of their assets, notably the sale of Château Miraval. Still, Jolie evidently stuck to the idea of Los Feliz remaining the family’s home base, as she purchased an estate — which once belonged to the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille — near Pitt’s compound in the same neighborhood in 2017.
The divorce fight heated up again in October when Jolie filed new court documents in the Château Miraval dispute, offering detailed allegations of a violent encounter she said took place on a private plane ride from France to Los Angeles in September 2016, Page Six and other outlets reported. In the fight, which prompted Jolie to file for divorce, she alleged that Pitt “chocked” one of their six children, “struck another in the face” and “grabbed” and “shook” her. She said their children were so “traumatized” over the incident that they no longer wanted to visit Château Miraval.
Pitt has repeatedly denied becoming violent with his family, though he acknowledged to GQ and other outlets that he had to overcome problems with alcohol and managing his anger. Pitt was cleared by the FBI following a child abuse investigation in 2016.
But in the years since the plane incident, sources close to Pitt told TMZ in October that Jolie has been on a “campaign of alienation,” which has resulted in Pitt having a “limited and strained relationship” with his children. The insiders also said that Jolie has “poisoned” the kids against Pitt to the point that he has “little to no relationship with any of them.”
