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The star is searching for a less instrusive lifestyle away from the glare of celebrity
THE NEVER-ENDING divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has undoubtedly taken its toll on them both. After a seven-year fight over everything , from the custody of their six children to the division of assets – including their South of France château, Miraval – it has become quite clear to anyone on the outside looking in that the end of the former golden couple’s relationship has grown unfathomably toxic.
Now, Jolie has made a decision that she hopes will enable her to feel free once the divorce is finally complete : she is planning to leave Los Angeles, quitting Hollywood entirely to start a new chapter. The 48-year-old told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that the protracted court battle has led to her ‘losing the ability to live and travel freely’, which a source tells Grazia has left her feeling profoundly ‘trapped and unhappy’ in the city where she was brought up and has forged a career.
In the interview, headlined, ‘Angelina Jolie is rebuilding her life’, the actor went on to explain that she has been unable to move out of California while she and Pitt’s lawyers have battled out their split in the state where they filed for divorce. She explained, ‘It’s part of what happened after my divorce – I lost the ability to live and travel as freely. I will move when I can.’ Jolie goes on to say that she ‘doesn’t really have a social life’ and that all of her ‘closest friends are refugees’, thanks to her work with the UN and her charity-incentivised fashion label Atelier Jolie, which she announced earlier this year.
Grazia’s insider describes how Jolie has found a ‘for now’ base for her family (although Maddox, 22, and Zahara, 18, the two eldest, have now both left home to study) in the form of the estate she bought in the east LA area of Los Feliz last year. The $22.5million, six-bedroom home once belonged to director Cecil B DeMille, and is in a celeb -friendly community where Jolie counts the likes of Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart as neighbours. This is not where the Maleficent star sees herself growing old, though, says the source. Indeed, Jolie told WSJ that she finds Los Angeles a ‘shallow’ place, which she has never been impressed by. Instead, she says
