Brad Pitt puts his Los Angeles property up for sale (for $40 million)

Brad Pitt is looking to pocket a tidy sum from the sale of his home by Los Angeleshis for thirty years now: he recently put it up for sale for $38.3 million more than he originally paid.

According to a real estate source who confirmed the news at People, the actor has just put his beautiful property in the Los Feliz neighborhood up for sale for around $40 million. Brad Pitt had originally bought it in 1994 – three years after his success in Thelma & Louise – for 1.7 million dollars from Cassandra Peterson, better known as «Elvira, Mistress of the Dark». As reported by Dirtthat would also be where Jimi Hendrix wrote May This Be Love and today it boasts neighbors such as Giovanni Ribisi and Rooney Mara.

Over the next few years, the actor also bought two adjoining properties to further expand the complex and, shortly after marrying Angelina Jolie in 2005, bought two more adjoining lots, where he then, according to Architectural Digesta large outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court and a skate park.

According to its description variety, the estate is spread over 1.9 acres of land and features a 6,692 square foot main house built in 1915, with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms. But today it is precisely the greatness of this whole complex that is one of the reasons why the star of Babylon he is trying to sell. According to the insider of People, at the moment she would be “looking for something smaller”.

Prior to their split in 2016, the Los Feliz home was where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie raised their six children, 21-year-old Maddox, 19-year-old Pax, 18-year-old Zahara, 16-year-old Shiloh, and 14-year-old Knox and Vivienne twins. In a 2017 interview with GQthe actor has referred to the property as his children’s “childhood home.”

The two actors were declared legally separated in 2019, but things have been stormy, amid ongoing child custody negotiations and the division of their assets, with particular acrimony over taking over their vineyard in the south of France, Château Miraval. The former couple bought the approximately 1,200-acre, 18th-century estate in 2012 for a reported $60 million. And that’s where, in 2014, they got married, inside the romantic chapel.