Brad Pitt has sold his ‘haunted’ mansion

THEThe Oscar winner leaves the property where he raised his children with his ex Angelina Jolie. The former owner: “Strange things happened in the house”

Brad Pitt says goodbye to the luxurious villa in Los Angeles, in the Los Feliz neighborhood. The star of Babylon, 59, has found a buyer for the vast estate, which he has owned for almost thirty years. Here, together with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, raised six children: Maddox, 21, Pax, 19, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 16, and 14-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. The couple separated in 2016.

According to what was told by a source to “People”, Pitt would have decided to put the property of almost 8,000 square meters up for sale because “looking for something smaller

” in the Los Angeles area.

Brad Pitt and business acumen

In 1994 Brad Pitt bought the villa for 1.7 million of dollars from Cassandra Peterson, better known as “Elvira, the queen of darkness”, an icon of horror, now seventy-one years old. Now, from its sale, he made 40 of them… Over the years the Oscar winner has in fact bought several lots adjacent to the original villa and filled them with a swimming pool, a tennis court and an ice rink.

The House? “Haunted by Ghosts”

Joined by “People,” former owner Cassandra Peterson recalled meeting Pitt prior to the purchase, when she warned him the house was “haunted.”

“We were just warning him that a lot of weird stuff has been going on in the house since my husband and I moved in,” Peterson said. The actor It didn’t put you off, but it would shown “very excited”.

“I’ve seen people walking upstairs, once even a ghost sitting in front of the fireplace.” In another case, “we saw a person floating on the bottom of the pool…”.

“I know it seems strange – added the horror star laughing -. And I know very well that you might expect these statements from me, but I have not been hallucinating. I can’t explain these things“.

The intervention of an exorcist

The spooky events allegedly started right after she and ex-husband, the musician Mark Pierson, they moved into the 29-room mansion. It seems that the two even requested “the intervention of a priest to perform an exorcism”.

But despite everything, Pitt said he was enthusiastic: “There aren’t many buyers for whom the ghosts can become a strength, but he (Pitt, ed) said: ‘Is fantastic!‘”