{"id":59645,"date":"2025-08-10T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59645\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:51:07","slug":"angelina-jolie-prepping-to-sell-cecil-b-demille-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59645\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie prepping to sell Cecil B. DeMille estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Hollywood estate could be ready for its latest close-up!<\/p>\n<p>Angelina Jolie is prepping to sell the estate of<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/06\/nancy-olson-celebrates-sunset-boulevard-as-it-turns-70\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> famed filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille<\/a>, which she snapped up for $24.5 million in 2017, sources tell Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on 2-plus acres in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, the house \u2014 where the \u201cSunset Boulevard\u201d director lived for roughly 40 years, until his 1959 death \u2014 was built in 1913 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/realestate\/hot-property\/la-fi-hotprop-angelina-jolie-cecil-demille-house-20170601-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms <\/a>across more than 11,000 square feet of interior space.<\/p>\n<p>We hear that Angelina Jolie is eyeing a sale of her historic LA estate. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The estate belonged to director Cecil B. DeMille. \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The estate also has four fireplaces, a vast wine cellar, a tea house, views of the Griffith Observatory, formal gardens and a pool with cascading fountains on either side.<\/p>\n<p>Jolie reportedly<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/arts-and-lifestyle\/article\/angelina-jolie-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> spent the pandemic<\/a> isolating there with her kids, and also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/angelina-jolie-is-hosting-evacuated-friends-at-her-home-amid-la-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> housed friends <\/a>there who were displaced by the area wildfires earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/news\/article\/angelina-jolie-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told British Vogue in 2021<\/a> of the location, \u201cI wanted it to be close to their dad, who is only five minutes away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was referring, of course, to<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/17\/celebrity-news\/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-both-take-in-nyc-but-estranged-exes-having-polar-opposite-big-apple-trips-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> ex-husband Brad Pitt<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>DeMille lived in the home for nearly 40 years. \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Jolie bought the home in 2017. \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Jolie reportedly paid  $24.5 million.  \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The house was restored to its original details.  \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The couple split in 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/05\/28\/celebrity-news\/brad-pitt-breaks-his-silence-on-finalizing-angelina-jolie-divorce-after-8-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">waged an eight-year legal war<\/a> hashing out asset distribution and custody of their six kids. They settled last year, but are still battling over a $500 million <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/07\/09\/celebrity-news\/why-brad-pitt-wants-his-ex-angelina-jolies-private-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">French winery<\/a>, Ch\u00e2teau Miraval.<\/p>\n<p>Jolie added in 2021 of the property: \u201cI felt a little pressure moving in. Like I had snuck into where DeMille and [Charlie] Chaplin would hang out. I love most that there is no entertainment room, but lots of pathways and places to walk and think. I feel very fortunate we have that at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The home was owned by DeMille\u2019s family after he died.  \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The home, the LA Times reported, was \u201crestored and renovated to the spirit of its original vintage,\u201d with delicate molding and wainscoting, scaled formal areas and arched French doors.<\/p>\n<p>Jolie bought the home after her split from Brad Pitt.  \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The home was built in 1913. \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Jolie described living in the home as feeling \u201clike I had snuck into where DeMille and [Charlie] Chaplin would hang out.\u201d \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reps for Jolie did not get back to us. <\/p>\n<p>Pitt\u2019s nearby<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/26\/celebrity-news\/brad-pitts-5-5m-la-home-ransacked-by-burglars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> $5.5 million home<\/a> was ransacked by burglars in June when the star was out of town promoting his new film \u201cF1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Hollywood estate could be ready for its latest close-up! 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