Posted on 05/26/2008 2:02:53 PM PDT by Perdogg
Several entertainment news sources have reported that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have acquired a $60 million 1,000-acre estate in the south of France. The joint is apparently called Chateau Miraval, located in a tiny village called Brignol in the Var.
The property allegedly has 35 bedrooms, swimming pool, billiards room, indoor pool, gyms, sauna and jacuzzi and a huge banquet hall, E! reports. The castle is very intimate, with a driveway three miles long. The place is surrounded by forest on all sides and is close to Aix en Provence.
Other celebrities such as Bono, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis also live in the French Riviera area. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spotted the estate from the air while house-hunting by helicopter. They asked the previous owner to name his price and agreed with the steep $65 million price tag demanded.
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sounds and looks like CANNES competition in the future
Where’s the runway and the heliopads?
:)
Carbon footprints only apply to you and me and people like us, WE are the ones that will be fined and taxed.
Sounds intimate alright :)
Their carbon footprint from shopping by helicopter is bigger than mine for the year.
Better leave a trail of bread crumbs or gumdrops to find your way out of that place. A GPS should be issued to all guests so none turn-up missing at breakfast.
What a colossal waste of money and space. I could do with 15 BRs. (;^0)
I thought the housing market was in the toilet. CNBC said it was.
Gonna leave a damn big carbon footprint.
Hey, I wonder if Brad is willing to let some of those folks in ‘Nawlins come for a visit...or, hell, he’s GOT 1,000 acres...maybe he can let some of them build on his land.
Holy cow, I just read your comment about the carbon footprint! LOL! Great minds think alike!
Wow-——I thought they cared so much about New Orleans? They could sure rebuild alot of homes in NO for $65 million.
November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience: "I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
Source: http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas: "We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right."
--Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971
From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."
Source for most of the Jane Fonda material:
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm
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Jolie sees benefit in US surge in Iraq
2008-02-29
Actress and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie said Thursday that the reinforcement of U.S. troops in Iraq has created an opportunity for humanitarian programs to boost assistance for Iraqi refugees.
In an op-ed piece published by the Washington Post, titled "A Reason to Stay in Iraq," Jolie details the plight of refugees and says their conditions have not improved since she visited the country last August to urge governments to provide more support.
Jolie, who has been a U.N. goodwill ambassador since 2001, was in Baghdad earlier this month to again highlight the refugee problem. She talked with Gen. David Petraeus, the American military commander in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the U.S. Embassy said.
Petraeus "told me he would support new efforts to address the humanitarian crisis" as much as possible, "which leaves me hopeful that more progress can be made," the actress wrote.
She said she stressed to Iraqi officials there must be a coherent plan for helping some 2 million Iraqis who are taking advantage of the downturn in violence to begin trickling back to abandoned homes from havens elsewhere in the country. A similar number fled Iraq to escape the bloodshed.
"It will be quite a while before Iraq is ready to absorb more than 4 million refugees and displaced people," Jolie wrote. "But it is not too early to start working on solutions."
The actress, who works on behalf of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, urged America's presidential candidates and congressional leaders to step up financing for aid to displaced Iraqis. UNHCR has asked for $261 million this year — "less than the U.S. spends each day to fight the war in Iraq," she wrote.
Addressing the question of whether the "troop surge" has worked, Jolie said that "I can only state what I witnessed."
"When I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq," she wrote. "They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2008-02/29/content_6495740.htm
Wonder what their carbon footprint will be....
I agree 15 sounds just about right and much more intimate ;)
She seems like a nice person who would appreciate the climate in the south of France.
Ought to make a great Islamic School when France finally succumbs to Sharia Law.
“Château Miraval - A brief history
Miraval, sited close to the Via Aurelia - one of the five main roads radiating from Rome - has always occupied an important place in history.
First settled by the Ligurians and then by the Celts, who were in their turn driven out by the advancing Romans, Miraval first appears on a map in the 1200s when it was a monastery and attached to the Pignans Monastery.
In 1252, it seems probable that St. Thomas Acquinas broke his journey here en route to the University of Paris from the University of Naples.
In the 1400s the Prince of Naples joined the French Court and settled at Miraval. This was when the Domaine first appears in the Register of Noble Houses.
The Estate was in the hands of the Orsini family for centuries and then, at the turn of the twentieth century, Miraval was home to the celebrated inventor of reinforced concrete - Joseph Lambot.
In the 1970s Jacques Loussier, the well-known jazz pianist, created one of the world’s foremost recording studios - Studio Miraval - where many great musicians including Pink Floyd, Sting, Sade and the Cranberries have all recorded their music in idyllic surroundings.”
Looks like a vineyard —upper R corner.
Who, Jane Fonda or Angelina Jolie? (joking!)
Headline Hollywood
March 2, 2008
Hollywood celebrities are known for supporting candidates who campaign on the promise to bring the troops home from Iraq.
But Angelina Jolie, in her capacity as a UN Goodwill Ambassador, visited Iraq and had the opportunity to meet with the military genius responsible for the success of the “surge,” General David Petraeus. And the actress-diplomat is now distinguishing herself from most of the Hollywood Left. In an op-ed titled, “Staying to Help in Iraq,” Jolie writes about speaking to the general and how she is “pleased that he has offered that support.”
“General Petraeus also told me he would support new efforts to address the humanitarian crisis ‘to the maximum extent possible’ — which leaves me hopeful that more progress can be made.” Jolie adds.
As for the surge, Jolie explains, “I can only state what I witnessed: U.N. staff and those of non-governmental organizations seem to feel they have the right set of circumstances to attempt to scale up their programs. And when I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq. They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible.”
Sounding like Bill Krystol, Jolie asks: “Can the United States afford to gamble that four million or more poor and displaced people, in the heart of the Middle East, won’t explode in violent desperation, sending the whole region into further disorder?”
It appears as though Jolie is affirming what military leaders have been saying; that not only will humanitarian progress be halted if the U.S. pulls out, a humanitarian calamity will ensue.
http://headlinehollywood.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/angelina-jolie-wants-troops-to-stay-in-iraq/
seems lovely. I’m jealous already, lol.
Jolie looks like her dad.
Good for them. Hope they aren’t too stupid and advocating liberalism, but good for them.
No, it isn't.
I hope when things go bad and the Muslims are turning Europe into the 13th century that these two continue to hold out in France.
You know the French have the Maginot Line to defend themselves err..sorry that was World War Two.
Maybe Maxine Waters needs to step in and "take over" the property.
Dumb to buy right now. They should have waited a few years when the dollar was at parity, and Euro real estate cooled off.
Much like her father, she sure has a “purdy mouth.”
Looks like a “working” property. Vineyard, farming, forest; lots to eat up carbon growing around there.
More money than brains. A castle? Geez...does anyone really care? My husband and I worked outside all day long today cutting grass and the like...making our “home” look nice. A castle? These people live in a fantasy world. Good thing for Jennifer Aniston she is no longer with Pitt. He and Jolie are ridiculous. Face time grabbers is all and exhibitionists.
Gee I don’t know. I suspect she has bumps in places daddy doesn’t. And prettier lips.
Whatda you wanna go mess around that river fer, boy?
35 bedrooms? They must be planning on having a few more children.
I didn’t say she looked like him. That was a quote from someone else. I never really thought about it.
I thought they already had about enuf crumb snatchers to fill all those bedrooms.
I wonder if I’ll be able to get in with my Trojan Rabbit?
I take it you are not one bit jealous. Sure doesn't sound like it!
Apparently they had enough smarts to be able to buy something incredibly beautiful, expensive and secluded. It IS their money to do with what they please and anyone who values hard work, determination and freedom to do as one sees fit with what one has should be happy for these people.
Hypocrit bump.
She's now "a UN Goodwill Ambassador" and a "Humanitarian Activist." I'm properly impressed.....I guess a world view and suction cup lips can move you on up in the global pecking order.
It's their perfect right, of course, to choose their own ideology in life. As for me, I say keep American green by supporting our own economy as much as possible.
I certainly won't add one more sou to Brangelina's mobile income which add$ million$ to the Euro economy.
Leni
“It’s good to be da king!”
Well, we all know what happened to the last king of France and his spendthrift wife, LOL.
Leni
Do as I say, not as I do. Hypocrites, the whole lot of them.
Shes beautiful and seems to have her head on straight about the war effort but why in the heck she needs so many rooms is beyond me.
Where do they get that kind of money, they’re known for being known! Are banks forced by gummint legislation to make loans to low income celebrities now?
First, she stole poor Jen’s man, now this!
It’s beautiful. Too bad they keep hopping the globe and sticking their kids into schools in various places. They might as well just have governesses and “home school” the kids. It must be very unsettling to drop in to a school for a few months and then wham, a new country.
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