Angelina Jolie fleeing LA amid bitter Brad Pitt divorce — as reason for East Coast relocation revealed
Angelina Jolie has bought an estate in Connecticut, sources exclusively tell Page Six Hollywood, after the “Eternals” star sold off her historic LA home in September.
Jolie had said in the past that she was only living in LA because of her divorce from Brad Pitt — and that she’d leave when her kids all turned 18.
Page Six exclusively reported last year that Jolie was prepping to sell off the estate of famed filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, which the “Gia” star snapped up for $24.5 million in 2017.
In September, the 11,000-square-foot home reportedly sold for $24.75 million, after Jolie initially listed the estate for $29.85 million.
Jolie bought the luxe six-bedroom, 10-bathroom mansion just months after her split from ex-husband Brad Pitt. She’s previously said she was only staying in LA because of family ties, and that she bought the home to be close to Pitt for their kids.
Jolie previously expressed a desire to leave LA. In 2024, the star told The Hollywood Reporter: “I am here because I have to be here from a divorce, but as soon as they’re 18, I’ll be able to leave.”
In 2021 she said in another interview that the main reason she bought her sprawling LA estate was because, “I wanted it to be close to their dad, who is only five minutes away.”
Jolie split from Pitt in 2016, kicking off the couple’s infamous, years-long property and custody battle. (Four of the couple’s six kids have legally removed Pitt from their names, and are reportedly estranged from the “F1” star.)
When Jolie put the DeMille estate on the market, there was buzz that the globe-trotting activist would move out of the US, but still spend time in New York, where she has a fashion biz, Atelier Jolie.
It’s unclear where the new Connecticut estate is located. (Stars who live in the Constitution State include Keith Richards, Michael J. Fox and Meryl Streep.)
Jolie also already owns a Manhattan property, but said in a 2025 interview that it’s being used as a “crash pad” for her kids when they’re in town.
A rep for Jolie did not get back to us.
Last week, the star was seen attending a Los Angeles screening of Martin McDonagh‘s latest film, “Wild Horse Nine.” The star was also spotted with two of her kids at LA eatery Cecconi’s on Sunday.
The move to the East Coast makes Jolie the latest Hollywood star to flee LA, following in the footsteps of others including Marvel heroes Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans.
Earlier this year, Hemsworth said on the “SmartLess” podcast of his own decision to leave for his native Australia: “It was right around the time my boys were born, and it was just, we kind of were set up in L.A. and not enjoying it, you know? Like nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else and then…you’d come home and paparazzi and all the sort of trappings of, you know, living in that space.”