Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Former New Orleans Home Fetches $2.8 Million in Sale
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s former mansion in the French Quarter of New Orleans has sold.
The historic 7,703-square-foot residence, which also once belonged to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, was auctioned in December, with the hammer falling on a winning bid of $2.8 million.
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“The campaign resulted in nearly 1,000 inquiries from buyer prospects and registered 12 bidders participating in the auction,” said Scott Kirk, president and CEO of Interluxe Auctions, which handled the sale.
One of the balconies.
Interluxe Auctions
As of last week’s closing, “the sale broke a record for the highest sale for a single-family home in the French quarter in over one year,” he added.
Built in the 1830s, the seven-bedroom property, which was last listed on the sale market for $3.475 million, has contemporary interiors fitted with features like hardwood floors, soaring ceilings, walls of windows, Venetian plaster walls, a grand winding staircase and fireplaces with marble mantles.
There’s a chef’s kitchen with a large butcher’s block island and a custom marble pantry, a home gym, an elevator, a workshop and a gated carriage-style driveway illuminated by gas lamps. There are also plenty of balconies, a private courtyard with a pool and fountain and a two-story guest house.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sold the New Orleans home in 2016, the same year she filed for divorce.
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The buyer couldn’t be identified as a deed for the sale has yet to hit public records.
Former A-list power couple Pitt and Jolie owned the property for a decade, from 2006 until 2016, when Jolie filed for divorce, records show.
Allen, the tech tycoon who died in 2018, owned the property after the pair, and recording engineer Cosimo Matassa, who was responsible for many R&B and early rock ’n’ roll records, once had his studio there, Mansion Global previously reported.
