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Well, darlings, of course Brad Pitt can’t stay out of the news for very long. This time he bought a 1,534-square-foot home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. It’s adjacent to several properties that Pitt already owns.

This 1932 two bedroom, one bath home has just a small 0.15 acre lot. And now his total properties in that vicinity is up to four, on just a little over 1 1/2 acres.

We guess that Pitt is doing just what Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi are doing: buying up property around their home in order to increase the amount of privacy that they have.

Big Time Listings broke the Pitt story, and they list the other Pitt properties as well:
- A 5-bedroom, 1915 craftsman-style house with 5,338 square feet (bought in 1994)
- A 2,454-square-foot home adjoining the first (bought in 1996)
- A 1,653-square-foot home, also adjoining (bought in 1998)

Rumor has it that the newest purchase had a view into Pitt’s original property, so it’s possible that he bought it for privacy concerns. Brad Pitt also owns a couple more homes in California (Malibu and Santa Barbara), one in Nawlins, and possibly a home near his parents in Missouri.

Of course, the biggest news most recently relating to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (or Brangelina as so many of the gossip rags call them) was their rental of Chateau Miraval in France. At the time, rumors flew that the jet-setting couple had paid $60 million for the 1,000+ acre estate and vineyard. Instead, the couple actually leased the the property for three years so Jolie could give birth to their twins in France, in honor of her French grandmother.

You can see more pictures of the French property on the next page.

While rumors were flying that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had purchased a huge estate near the French Riviera, it turns out that reports are only partially true.

Yes, they will be staying at Chateau Miraval. No, they did not buy it. Yes, they did lease it for a whopping three years.

As we said earlier, we knew they were looking for property but weren’t 100% certain they had actually bought this French property. Interestingly, the E! story we originally linked has been updated to note the rental, with no mention of the previous version saying they’d bought the place. That’s a little bit sneaky, E! Why not just note a correction?

It seems like a lot of the gossip rags are fixated with the Jolie-Pitts at the moment, with the current rumor saying that they just had their twins. Of course, that rumor, too, has been squelched.

Brad and Angelina have been hanging out in France to attend the Cannes film festival and to await the birth of their twins. Angelina told reporters that she wants to give birth in France, in honor of her French grandmother.

No word if Brad will fly his parents out from Missouri to visit the new babes once they’re born.

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