Brad Pitt has been buying luxury homes and commercial properties in deals worth millions of dollars.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going through one of Hollywood’s most acrimonious divorces, but there’s no question who is ahead in the real estate market.
The Fight Club actor continued to hold onto the family estate and made his fortune by selling it for $33 million earlier this year.
In recent years, he has been busy finding luxury residential and commercial properties, and has been involved in $72 million worth of real estate deals.
DailyMail.com reveals that Pitt has purchased three studios in Los Angeles’ Frogtown neighborhood from his friend, British sculptor Thomas Hausgo. The Frogtown district, once a run-down industrial area, is now popular with the arts community and is considered one of the city’s hippest areas.
Last April, he paid Hausgo’s company, Clearwater Real Properties LLC, $4.095 million for an adjacent parcel. This is where Pitt, who began carving shortly after his split from Jolie in September 2016, was photographed coming and going.
In March 2021, Pitt purchased another studio directly across the street from two other studios from Hausgo for $2,933,500. It was a vintage manufacturing building, and Pitt took out a $2 million mortgage with City National Bank to finance the deal.
In April 2022, Pitt purchased two adjacent studios for $4.095 million. In March 2021, he purchased another studio across the street from two others for nearly $3 million.
Brad purchased the studio in 2021 for $3 million. This is a vintage manufacturing building, and Pitt took out his $2 million mortgage with City National Bank to finance the transaction.
Pitt purchased three studios in Los Angeles’ fashionable Frogtown neighborhood from his friend, British sculptor Thomas Hausgo (center).Pitt and his longtime friend, Australian musician Nick Cave (left), collaborated on an art exhibition at Hausgo last year.
Brad’s property consists of five houses, which he began buying up in 1994. He sold it to oil heiress Eileen Getty in 2023 for $33 million.
In March 2023, Pitt bought Eileen Getty’s three-bed home in Los Feliz for $5.5 million, and she picked up his five mansions for $33 million.
Pitt and his longtime friend, Australian musician Nick Cave, collaborated last year on Hausgo’s art exhibition, WE, at the Sara Children’s Museum in Tampere, Finland. All three reportedly bonded over their personal struggles overcoming drug and alcohol addiction.
Brad and Angie are going through one of Hollywood’s most acrimonious divorces. After their separation, he remained in a large estate in Los Feliz.
In July 2022, Pitt made a big splash in the housing market by spending $40 million on the former home of American author DL James, known as “Seward,” in Carmel, California. He bought it outright with no mortgage.
After their separation, he remained at his large property in Los Feliz, which he owned outright, and where he and Jolie raised their six children.
He bought the 5,338-square-foot main mansion in 1994 for $1.7 million, and over the next 22 years (12 of which he spent with Jolie), the property grew to include five adjoining properties.
The place became a private fortress with a skate park, a secret cave, and three children’s pools.
Pitt sold the property this year in an exchange deal with oil heiress Eileen Getty. She paid $33 million for the property, and he downsized to his three-bedroom home in the same area for $5.5 million, earning $27.5 million after expenses on the exchange.
He also brought home his family’s Santa Barbara waterfront, which he bought for $4 million in 2000 and is now said to be worth $20 million.
The 15-acre beach residence, located near Gaviota State Park, was used by the former couple “as a vacation retreat for themselves and their children to enjoy horseback riding and time at the beach.”
After their separation, Angelina Jolie wanted to buy her own $24.5 million property and had to turn to Pitt, who loaned her $8 million and paid it back with interest.She took out a $17.15 million mortgage with Comerica Bank.
Brad bought his Santa Barbara oceanfront home in 2000 for $4 million, but it’s now said to be worth $20 million.
In July 2022, Pitt made a big splash in the housing market by spending $40 million on the former home of American author DL James, known as “Seward,” in Carmel, California.He bought it in full without a mortgage.
Meanwhile, after the separation, Jolie wanted to buy her own property and had to rely on Pitt, who loaned her $8 million with interest.
Not only did she buy late director Cecil B. DeMille’s Los Feliz mansion for $24.5 million and borrowed part of her ex-husband’s $300 million estate, she also took out a $17.15 million mortgage with Comerica Bank. I had to.
Jolie said in court documents that Pitt never gave her any “meaningful child support,” but claimed he paid the Tomb Raider star more than $9 million.
However, Jolie’s lawyer disputed this claim, claiming that most of the money was due to loans.
“Brad was asked to help pay for a new home for Angelina and her children, but instead he lent her money and paid interest on it,” Samantha Bray Dejean of Bray & Bray said in a statement. I’m charging her.” payment plan.
“Angelina will of course honor that loan. However, the loan is not child support, so it is misleading and inaccurate to describe it as such.
“Angelina wants Brad to pay 50 percent of the children’s expenses. He hasn’t. Angelina has had to pay for most of it without her own contributions for the past two years. California So child support is not optional.”
Jolie and Pitt were photographed with their six children in November 2008.The couple separated in 2016 after an explosive argument on a private jet
Brad and Angie jointly own Miraval, a 35-room, 1,000-acre estate in France that they purchased for $60 million in 2011, and are currently at the center of a bitter legal battle between the two. There is.
The pair also co-own the 35-room, 1,000-acre French vineyard Miraval, which they purchased for $60 million in 2011, and is currently at the center of yet another bitter legal battle between them.
The former couple had a “mutual and binding commitment” to the $160 million Chateau Miraval business, agreeing never to sell their shares without each other’s permission.
But according to Pitt’s lawyer, Pitt announced in a 2021 press release that he had a new business partner, and that his ex-wife had “secretly” sold 50% of his stock to Russian billionaire Yuri Shelfer. He was shocked to learn that he had done so.
In her countersuit, Jolie alleges that Pitt tried to sell her to his company, Mondo Bongo, on “unfair terms” and lied that Scheffler was an “ally of Vladimir Putin.” He was accused of spreading the word.
She also claimed that Pitt hid assets and squandered chateau funds on vanity projects such as a swimming pool and an ornate staircase that was rebuilt four times.
The case is ongoing.