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Hollywood heavyweights make N.O. their home: Pitt and Jolie buy historic house in Quarter
www.nolalive.com ^ | January 18, 2007 | Kate Moran

Posted on 01/18/2007 7:57:40 AM PST by Melpomene

The average income in New Orleans scooted a bit higher this month when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie dropped $3.5 million on a French Quarter mansion.

The Hollywood couple, who occupy the upper strata of celebrity, bought a three-story, 7,400-square-foot home in the lower French Quarter this month and have enrolled their oldest child at a local school. The house they selected -- their fourth, according to a tabloid that posted the story on its Web site this week -- is a gray-green, balconied affair near the riverfront, complete with a two-car garage, a detached guest house and a rear courtyard cloistered from view of even the surrounding houses.

Apparently intent on staying awhile, they have also been mingling with the hoi polloi at bars and restaurants near their house.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1169109823202260.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bradgelina; neworleans
We're pulling through the Katrina aftermath. We've had worse than Nagin. Crime comes in waves. The city is perpetually dirty. But Bradgelina????? We're doomed.
1 posted on 01/18/2007 7:57:45 AM PST by Melpomene
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To: Melpomene

HEEEEEYYYYYYY - that ain't chocolate!


2 posted on 01/18/2007 7:59:13 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Alec Baldwin is not a real actor, but he plays one on TV.)
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To: Melpomene

Gotta run; going to buy a Saints shirt for my daughter. GO SAINTS!


3 posted on 01/18/2007 7:59:18 AM PST by Melpomene
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To: Melpomene
Gotta run; going to buy a Saints shirt for my daughter. GO SAINTS!

Go Bears! Sorrr, I think the Bears are going to pull this one out.

4 posted on 01/18/2007 8:01:15 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

5 posted on 01/18/2007 8:02:05 AM PST by Melpomene
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To: Melpomene
have enrolled their oldest child at a local school

Public school????

6 posted on 01/18/2007 8:05:08 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Melpomene

I give this display of compassionate liberalism a couple of months. One bad storm, one murder too close to the cozy "little house on the bayou" - one typical Loosiana summer- and the Brangelina entourage is off to Namibia/France/LA/England/Cambodia.

BTW, 3.5 million on a house, to these folks- is play money.


7 posted on 01/18/2007 8:07:46 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: silverleaf

I'm looking for a photo of the home. Has anyone seen it online yet? Yes, this is house #4 for the Jolie-Pitts.


8 posted on 01/18/2007 8:28:26 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Melpomene

Ain't life grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


9 posted on 01/18/2007 9:04:32 AM PST by longhorn too
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To: mtbopfuyn

Of course not!!! They're in a private school right around the corner from my house. One of my friends has kids there. They asked all the parents to sign release forms agreeing not to take pictures of their children. They don't have to worry about the photo frenzy over the kids; they need to worry about all the moms in the carpool line, waiting with their cell phone cameras for Brad Pitt to come pick up his kids.


10 posted on 01/18/2007 10:33:03 AM PST by Melpomene
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To: raybbr
They might. Considering it was 40 degrees this morning and I dressed my kids in three layers and an overcoat, weather will certainly play a factor.

Not one bit of Saints paraphernalia to be found. Had to buy a white t-shirt, black and gold sharpies, and black and gold mardi gras beads.

11 posted on 01/18/2007 10:37:21 AM PST by Melpomene
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To: Melpomene

I would have made Pitt and Jolie sign a release saying they would keep the papparazzi away from the school.


12 posted on 01/18/2007 10:57:04 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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