Angelina Jolie was seen out and about in NYC Tuesday, possibly looking for a new apartment. She and Brad rented a $60 million mansion in Long Island a few weeks ago, but I guess that just wasn’t enough. The apartment building she was looking at is very ritzy, and has work permits to allow for remodeling according to the owner’s taste. I remember hearing that Brad is very into remodeling and construction, so this building might make sense for them and give him a project while Angelina is filming Salt in NYC. The movie is rumored to be the reason that their family has leased a home 50 miles from the city, and is now looking at an apartment. Brad also said recently that he recognizes that he and Angelina have moved the kids around a lot, and they’re looking to settle down. Maybe this is where they’ll be able to do that.
A few weeks after signing the lease on a $60 million Long Island mansion, the actress, 33, was spotted checking out a nice building in Manhattan’s uptown Washington Heights neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
“The building had work permits and it seemed like they were probably being remodeled for [buyers’] taste,” a witness tells Us.
Jolie — who donned a black trench coat, boots and sunglasses — spent about 25 minutes inside the building sans Brad Pitt or her six kids.
“The building is pretty fancy,” the onlooker says. “It’s really nice.”
Jolie, who is up for best actress at this Sunday’s Academy Awards, seemed to be in a good mood.
“She was nice,” the witness tells Us. “She waved to the cameras, said, ‘hey guys.'”
The Jolie-Pitts could be making NYC a permanent home — for awhile, at least, while Jolie films thriller Salt.
“I’ve been dragging my kids from continent to continent,” Pitt recently said. “So we’re going to give them a break.”
[from Us]
They really do seem to jet-set a lot for movies as well as for pleasure, and I wonder how the kids handle it. I understand that they want to give their children a worldwide education – Angelina is very big into the concept of global citizenship – but it has to be tough on them. Though they may have a very loving and supportive family, changing scenes that often can be hard, and can make it difficult for kids to make and keep long-term friends. Maddox, the oldest, is seven, so it makes sense that they’re wanting to start settling as the kids start becoming of school age.
I wonder whether they’ll live in the NYC apartment or re-lease the mansion in Long Island. They may raise the kids in the house and use the apartment as a kind of getaway in the city when they have commitments in New York. Moving back and forth between the two homes certainly won’t be a problem – that’s what assistants are for.
Angelina Jolie is shown out in NY on 2/17/09. Credit: SplashNews
She is gorgeous. Can not wait to see them on Oscar night. They are a really nice family and I hope Hollywood and the tabs don’t hurt their great relationship. They appear to be pretty strong and together.
Jolie is filming the thriller “Salt” in New York. At the Riviera, at West 157th Street and Riverside Drive, where studios sell from $300,000 and four-bedroom units go for more than $1 million, the doorman told The Post the Jolie visit was professional.
“She’s going to make a movie here. They have two apartments and she was looking at them,” he said.
I have to disagree Sam. Although I think the jet lag must be tough on the family, I can see the children being excited to visit new countries and viewing it as an adventure.
What ever is really going on in their family, one thing is for sure, they are together and will form close bonds with their siblings.
She might be beautiful but what else does she offer? She’s clearly controlling, takes herself FAR too seriously and children are her new addiction. She makes me sick.
These kids are far too young to understand their “worldwide education”. Most people don’t remember ANYTHING that happens in their lives before age 5.
Can a 3-year-old be excited by the prospect of visiting a foreign country? They don’t even know what a country is at that age!
Angelina is globe-trotting for her own pleasure, not the kids’ education.
the recession has not hit them
I would love to travel all over the world FIRST CLASS baby !! AJ is a gemini just like me. are worst or best traits is being restless and bored. we are air signs cant pin us down.
I agree, PJ! Wait until the kids are bit older to appreciate what it is they are seeing and what they have, exactly. Then they’ll certainly get an education, but for now it’s just like, “What? Another plane? Another hotel? Oy vey.”
Oh Lord, here we go again, the terrible life the poor, misfortunate, maltreated Jolie-Pitt kids lead.
Daisy – It’s disgraceful, isn’t it? I bet it keep you awake at night too, worrying over their welfare. 🙂
Let me get this straight. They don’t want to be bothered all the time by the paps yet they plan on settling down in the GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD????? Media whores.
LOL @ geronimo~
i wonder if those that complain about how the kids are being raised, have ever been outside of their countries?
who knew that bloggers know everything and how to raise kids!?
they’re “movie-stars” and however successful they may be, they go-where-the-work-is.
I was a ‘hippy’ during the 70s and can truly say that being ‘rootless’ doesnt do anyone any harm as long as you are loved and feel secure.
Apparently Angie is scouting for locations for the “Salt” movie . . . . . no need for everyone to get traumatised now.
Providing a core group of stability is a good reason why I think it is great they have a large family.
“Moving back and forth between the two homes certainly won’t be a problem – that’s what assistants are for.”
That’s a trifle elitist there, Sam. It’s gauche to point out the role of subordinates 😉
Moving right along, in response to this latest tidbit of non-news: zzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Now if she were to kick Brad to the curb and move into a giant shoe with her junior United Nations, I might pay more attention.
I’m not sure if all this travelling is good for the kids, but have to think that being left with nannies and not seeing their parents (who travel for business) would be worse for them. If you ever saw pictures of the little boy being dropped off and picked up from school you can see why they home school him and the others.
***plugging in my blender***
@Geronimo, you’re so perceptive! I’m so tired due to the lack of sleep I have endured worrying how the J/P kids are mistreated and abused.
I know from my personal experience how much my children enjoyed the travel and meeting new people. As adults, they are very close to each other and have never told my husband or I that they regretted/resented it.
Why some people still doubt this family’s happiness, I just don’t get it.
@Baho; I’d pay to see Angie living in a shoe!
I don’t doubt their happiness in the slightest. I do think, however, that living a rootless existence like that isn’t good for kids. I knew two army brats in high school. One had moved 9 times since she was born (from Japan to Korea to several states in America) and the other had moved quite a few times as well (I don’t remember as I wasn’t good friends with her).
Anyway, both had expressed to me that they wished they had had more time to just stop and make friends. None of those kids will have any real friends oustide of their family unless they put them in school.
I traveled a lot when I was a little kid (outside of the country) and I don’t remember it at all. My mom has pictures of me and my sisters when we were like, 5, 3 and 1 in Mexico. And then others from England the next year when I was 4 and I don’t remember that trip at all.
The kids will be happy in the moment, but won’t remember it worth a damn later on.
Justifying one’s behavior to continue doing the same ….
Packing back packs in the middle of the night, seeing the world from inside a hotel room … the life of gypsys and the self-absorbed.
I remember Jolie saying … “Now that I have Pax, I plan to settle in one place.”
Oh well
oh my god….theyre really not going to get out of the tabloids now are they….
They’re not “rootless”… they have roots all over the world.
@ for_realz… out of the country? I bet most of them haven’t been out of town.
A lot of people resent others who don’t behave exactly the way they do–or live as some people think they “should”.
The Jolie-Pitts have a different lifestyle than those of us who live a settled, routine, house-in-the-‘burbs, nine-to-five-job, etc. kind of life.
That doesn’t make them wrong or bad parents. Just because their lifestyle is different and not what some of the people writing here would choose for themselves what makes it less worthy than a more traditional lifestyle?
The kids have attention, they have their parents with them all the time; they are well cared for, protected and (I have to assume) well loved.
If they have all of that, a little jet-lag won’t ruin their lives!
czarina: No one “resents” them or thinks they “should” live a certain way. They live the way they live and they choose to put their lives out in public for people to scrutinize and have opinions about.
Having an opinion isn’t resentful. It’s having an opinion. We don’t know these people personally so our opinions are moot when it comes to affecting their personal lives.
Quite right, czarina. Some people have such narrow perspectives.
@NotBlonde–I disagree when you say that “no one resents them” (I mean, re-read the last half-dozen Jolie-Pitt threads and tell me again how there isn’t any hostility there?LOL)
I do, however, absolutely agree that there is a difference between having an opinion and just blindly condemming people who don’t behave they way other people do or think they should.
To me, having an opinion is (as in your own post) having a thoughtful argument based on your own perception and logical reasoning. What I was arguing against was the blanket “This is wrong because I said so” and the instant leaping to “these are bad people/parents/etc.”. That’s what I consider narrow minded. (which is, of course, still just my opinion!)