Brad Pitt has a new home and a new box-office milestone.
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The Oscar-winning actor recently purchased a Spanish-style estate in Los Angeles for about $12 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 8,385-square-foot property in the Hollywood Hills features six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a theater room, and a pool, along with top-line security upgrades. Privacy and safety were priorities after a burglary at Pitt's nearby Los Feliz property earlier this summer.
The purchase adds to Pitt's long history of architectural buys, but the timing overlaps with perhaps the biggest sports role of his career. Pitt's F1 movie has become the highest-grossing film of his career, passing $552 million at the global box office. The racing drama, which also stars Damson Idris and Javier Bardem, has returned to Imax theaters after already setting records for the format.
In F1, Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, an aging driver who returns to Formula 1 after a devastating injury to mentor a struggling team. The role marks another major sports chapter for Pitt, who famously played Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane in 2011's Moneyball. That performance earned him an Academy Award nomination and remains one of the most acclaimed sports films of the past two decades.
Now, more than a decade later, Pitt has tied his career to another sports world, this time on the track rather than in the front office. While his new home offers privacy, his latest project is built for spectacle — fast cars, big screens, and a reminder that even in Hollywood, Pitt is still playing in the biggest arenas.
