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- Angelina Jolie is preparing to sell her historic L.A. home amid her plans to move abroad, a source tells PEOPLE
- The Academy Award winner is planning to make some minor improvements to her famous Cecil B. DeMille Estate before selling the property
- She first purchased the home in 2017 and has still been living there “because of the custody arrangement” with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, the source adds
Angelina Jolie is ready to part ways with her historic Los Angeles home.
The Maria star, 50, is officially planning to “put the house up for sale” as she explores a move abroad, a source tells PEOPLE. Page Six was the first to report the news.
Jolie “never wanted to live in L.A. full time. She didn’t have a choice because of the custody arrangement with Brad,” continues the source, referring to the star’s ex-husband Brad Pitt, 61.
The exes — who reached a divorce settlement in December 2024 after an eight-year legal battle — share six children: Maddox, 24, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.
The source adds that Jolie “plans to relocate as soon as Knox and Viv turn 18 next year. She’s eyeing several locations abroad. She’ll be very happy when she’s able to leave Los Angeles.”
Of Jolie’s Los Angeles home, the source notes, “It’s a historic masterpiece and truly such a beautiful estate.”
Another insider confirms that the Without Blood writer/director is planning on selling the home after she makes some minor improvements to it.
Jolie purchased the historic 1913-build in 2017 for $24.5 million, a source told PEOPLE at the time. The sprawling property boasts six bedrooms and ten bathrooms across 11,000 square feet.
Its Hollywood ties make it a one-of-a-kind property, as it was purchased by director Cecil B. DeMille for under $28,000 in 1916, PEOPLE previously reported. Charlie Chaplin also lived in a neighboring house, but after he moved out, DeMille purchased and combined the two estates.
Jolie previously opened up about why she’s still living in Los Angeles despite her desire to leave, per a 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
The Academy Award winner, who filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 after two years of marriage, told the outlet at the time that she is currently in the city “because I have to be here from a divorce.”
However, once her twins turn 18, Jolie said she’s ready to live abroad full time as she seeks qualities that Los Angeles can’t offer her or her children.
“When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety,” she said at the time. “I have a house now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be … that humanity that I found across the world is not what I grew up with here.”
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After she leaves L.A., she noted, “I’ll spend a lot of time in Cambodia,” which is where she adopted her oldest son Maddox in 2002. She added, “I’ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world.”
Jolie previously shared that Cambodia is the one place “in my heart” that she considers her home during a conversation at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February.
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