Gossip is slow because we’re post-VMAs and pre-film festivals, so let’s take a moment to acknowledge that Angelina Jolie is probably sort of grateful that Taylor Swift is around right now. Angelina hasn’t had the best summer, with her Vanity Fair interview exploding in her face, and Brad seemingly getting the “upper hand” with media relations. Even though everyone is paying attention to Taylor Swift right now, the attention will be back on Angelina as soon as she steps foot in Toronto to promote First They Killed My Father. That will be a few weeks from now. In the meantime, let’s talk about these questionably-sourced tabloid reports. First up, is Angelina broke?
Angelina Jolie going broke: NEEDS MONEY FAST.
GET TO WORK …. Angelina Jolie’s REFUSAL to do big budget, commercial films is affecting her bank account! An insider says her overhead for her properties, security etc is eating up her savings. BUT the insider adds she “loathes” doing “big Hollywood films”
I’ve often wondered about the state of Angelina’s finances, actually. I don’t think she’s going broke, but I also don’t think she has as much money saved as the stans want to believe. Yes, Angelina has taken some big modeling contracts over the years and she’s gotten some huge paychecks too, but unless she got an enormous backend from Maleficent (did she?), she hasn’t had a lot of money coming in. Her modeling money goes to charity, and most of the films she’s done in the past ten years have not been huge paychecks for her. Is she going broke? No. But it wouldn’t hurt her to have some more money coming in.
Meanwhile, Life & Style had this story in their current issue:
Are you guys ready for another round of Brangelina? Angelina Jolie sure is. Though she filed for divorce last September, the 42-year-old actress is rethinking her decision to go through with her split from estranged husband Brad Pitt, a source exclusively tells Life & Style.
According to the insider, the Maleficent star — who previously requested sole custody of their six children, Maddox, 16, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 9 — has fallen back in love with Brad, 53. “Angelina never thought he would change, but he’s cleaned up his act and is leading a much healthier lifestyle,” notes the insider. “He’s done a total 180.”
Brad admitted to GQ earlier this year that he gave up drinking and sought therapy after Angie dumped him. Now she’s hoping they can reconcile. “He looks great and feels great,” says a pal. “This is the Brad she married, and Brad gets the impression Angie wants him to take her back.”
Still, Angie is treading lightly as she attempts to patch up their fractured relationship. “She subtly asks Brad about his personal life and reminds him of all the fun times they had together,” says the source, “in hopes that he’ll fall back in love with her.” (A Brad source tells Life & Style exclusively: “That’s never going to happen! Brad is done with her.”)
Angie is hoping she and Brad — who was cleared of child abuse allegations in November — can make amends and reignite their romance now that he’s made positive changes in his life, but an insider tells Life & Style that the Hollywood hunk is solely focused on building a stronger bond with his children. “The reason he changed his lifestyle was for the kids,” says the Angie insider, “not to impress Angelina.”
There’s some debate about who is pushing these stories about Angelina being the one eager for reconciliation, even in the face of her obvious anger towards Brad still, to this day. My take is the same: Angelina doesn’t want to reconcile and she’s not the one pushing these stories. My take is that the tabloids have just latched onto this idea that the only thing better than a Brangelina breakup is a Brangelina reunion. Neither Brad nor Angelina is up for a reunion though.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Yes, I’m sure AJ is confiding to some “insider” about her bank account.
It’s not that hard to figure out how rich celebrities are, at least within a certain scale. They have accountants, accountants have spouses and assistants who gossip. And if you live around LA, you get good at spotting who is really doing well, and who is faking it. There is an actor that one of those celebrity net worth websites values at less than a tenth his real worth. How do I know? We use the same accounting firm. I don’t exactly how rich he is, but I know he’s waaaaay richer than anyone suspects, especially given his low-key lifestyle. I could call up L&S and make that a story. The “insider” isn’t necessarily someone Angelina is talking to, it could just be someone who is connected in some way to her accounting firm (divorces of this size usually mean forensic accountants are called in to help diviide assets, so you have even more potential leaky ships afloat).
My objection was to Life and Style’s claim that a so-called credible “insider” is talking to them.
Maybe, I’m just saying it’s not that hard to piece a story like this together.
I’m sure it’s not hard at all. I just laugh when these tabloids talk about “insiders” as a pipeline for information. As in, “The Queen confided to an insider that Phillip snores.”
So you happily keep using the services of an accounting firm with an “Insider” who spilled the beans about the actor you’ve mentioned? Because if they talked about this actor they could very well be talking about you and other clients, not that famous people is only subjected to gossip, but could be as damaging if not even more. Not to mention that whoever that insider might be, they could and should be both fired and denounced to the authorities, because they’re certainly breaking the law.
As for as you said about the entourage of celebrities spilling the beans is true and old as Hollywood. More than that: any good gossiper can “smell” it, who’s faking it wealth, who’s hiding it and who’s just doing fine.
@Minx
I am on pins and needles, did the Queen’s “pal” tell this to Lies and Shite, or Okay magazine????? LOL
You don’t really need an insider to write this story . Angelina hasn’t made a high grossing film in a few years. Most of her blockbusters were earlier in her career. And part of this is her choice, since she wants to make artistic films. But with several kids and living an expensive life, unless she is maintaining a good investment portfolio. she very easily could be running low on funds.
@mannori … see this is why no real tea is ever spilled…because of commentators (payroll staff) stay shading people trying to breakdown the in and outs of this thing celebrity…. jeezzz (Buzzkill Betty) its a gossip site WE ARE ALL SPECULATING to some degree
on another note thanks @algernon that was great insight on how these sources and insider sound bites can and often do work 🙂
@Merritt
I expect Angie to send Maddox and the other 5 out with cardboard signs around their neck reading “WILL WORK FOR FOOD”. That will really show what a wonderful “father” Brad Pitt is.
The Jolie Pitts do nothing on a small scale. Big family, big real estate, big staff. They must have astronomical operating expenses, and while Miraval’s wine production could possibly help to offset the massive upkeep with that estate, I have wondered how long they can keep up this rate of spending.
having one foot in the wine industry in Europe myself, I can tell you that the Miraval thing is more smoke and mirrors PR stuff than anything else.
That would not shock me at all. Supposedly the wine is good (I haven’t had it) but the wine would have to be an enormous seller to offset what it must cost to produce at an estate like that.
The wine is pretty decent. I was surprised.
the wine is quite lovely, esp in the summer. on the sweet side, which I prefer.
I still think this is all because she wants us to forget “the game” the children actors played to get the part.
Me too!
@A Croation
Find another song, this one is getting old. I will never understand people who choose to believe lies over the truth, even if it is staring them in the face in black and white.
READ the frigging manuscript from the VF interview, it proves without a shadow of a doubt that Angie did nothing wrong and the “reporter” chose to leave out key parts of the interview.
The “reporter” wanted to sensationalize the interview, she wanted it to seem “controversial”, and she left out the truth to get publicity.
If someone wants publicity what is the first thing they do, they mention Angelina Jolie’s name, NOT Brad Pitt’s name, Angie’s name. How many times and on how many sites did we hear where Angie was “attending the big fight” last week-end. Of course most knew it was nothing but a publicity ploy and it worked, everyone was talking about Angie attending, not about Charlize, or any of the famewhores that DID attend, just how Angie was definitely attending the fight. GMAFB
Link to this well-studied transcript of yours then.
VF published it, it’s not that hard to find.
Nope. I didn’t even know she was there. Leo was the main star covered. Where do you make up this stuff?
“Refusal” to do big-budget movies? Which movies would that be, at least since she married?
I don’t know if she has turned down any big budget films (I don’t think she has) but from today’s Screen Daily she is signed on to the Maleficient sequel and when asked about Bride of Frankenstein said there had been a discussion but sounded pretty dismissive of the whole thing.
She was supposed to do Murder on the Orient Express but passed.
@Ankhel
Angie has been asked to do Salt II, Maleficent II, even Wanted II (where her character had been shot in the head and killed at the end).
Angie was asked to do “Gravity” (this before the divorce filing, of course), she was told to write in ANY amount she wanted, she turned it down. After the Producers talked to other actresses, Sandra was included in that group, they came BACK to Angie and asked her to reconsider, and again she turned them down. If Angie wanted a part in any of the silly Marvel comic films all she has to do is crook her finger, as if the Producers would take Goop over Angie.
If Angie really needed money (as if), all she’d have to do is just one of those silly films and get her $20+ million paycheck and rake in the back-end points.
@cara
My God you are delusional. Jolie is one of the most overrated actresses ever. She has no technique and yet prides herself with her acting. Her massive ego never allowed her to be a good actress, all she does is staring at whomever is opposite her – or the screen – with her mouth slightly parted. She’s supposed to give her all in a performance and become the character, not play endless variations of her pretty old self.
And as a director she’s equally bad. There is nothing cinematic about her films, they lack variety and creativity. It’s like the same thing over and over again.
So that’s why she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Nora? And multiple awards? I think Nora, that your hate and bias against Angelina is blinding you, and that you are deeply delusional. Angelina is an accomplished actress and director, and she is most certainly under-rated. It is her persona that over-shadows, but if you actually look at her body of work – fairly – it is indeed obvious that she is severely under-rated. You don’t know what you are talking about.
@Nora
I get it, you hate Angelina Jolie, you’ve made it clear. Strange thing about the “massive ego” you claim she has. YOU are the only person to have seen it, well you and the other haters. Everyone that knows or works with Angie would disagree with you in a heartbeat.
She had a one hit wonder in Girl interrupted – the rest was commercial crap. Her massive ego can easily be seen in her massive spending, massive houses, massive PR. She is a star not an actor.
@M
Yeah, Angie has got to do something about “donating” so much money to charity. How dare she? She could have done what JA always does, make a pledge and not follow through.
Haiti said they are STILL waiting on JA’s “donation” check that never came. LOL
Tabloids are trash…they will never let this story go. Look what they said about Jen Anniston after her divorce for brad..they are still pitching the story that she wants him back.
For tabloids all women are needy when it is obvious women are stronger than men, stupid narrative to sell magazines.
@M. says
Now let’s be serious for a minute, that was JA feeding the tabloids for 11 years. If not for the tabloids JA’s career would have ended before it did.
I agree with you Cara. And Jolie’s too, because she is basically Megan Fox.
@Babs what a great comment. Love me a balanced burn.
@Babe
You mean the Megan Fox who had cosmetic surgery on her pretty face to look like the naturally gorgeous Angie….that Megan Fox. That really did wonders for Megan Fox’s career.
I dont think she is going broke right now , Brad will have to contribute anyway. But I always wondered how they both will uphold their life style, together or apart. You really need gigantic pay to uphold it. Obviously easier when you have two high earners but still.
She got massive paychecks for the kung fu panda movies too and one came out semi recently.
I think they wasted a lot of money on property. However she also seems to surround herself with good teams and i believe she actually would listen to money manager for some reason.
Not really; she was paid 1 million for Kung Fu Panda 2. Actors typically aren’t paid a lot for animations because it’s less work on their end. She was probably paid 2 or 3 million for the rest of the KFP movies. I’m sure she spends that in 6 months.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/angelina-jolie-movie-career-statistics/
Much less than that, after agent fees and taxes.
Properties are investments.
Yes but if you haven’t paid off the mortgage then it’s debt until you do. I highly doubt they paid 60 million in cash for Miraval while also footing the bill for a 25 million renovation. That’s $85 million for one property while still paying taxes and utilities. I haven’t even started on the taxes and utilities and upkeep for Brad’s Goleta beachfront home, Los Feliz home, Nola mansion (they only recently sold) and a NYC condo. The upkeep must be massive unless you’re renting them out to balance out the cost (which they don’t).
Money manager or not, these people have staff that cook and clean for them on a daily basis. No way can you have 6 children in your house without regular staff coming in do the cleaning. Especially with Jolie’s blasé attituude that the dog can dirty the couch if he feels like it. Maybe there is some truth that she doesn’t apply that many rules in the household and Pitt did? The little things often say more than the big ones. She also owns a historical building now that has a more intense upkeep than a modern one.
We all know she can’t cook and even if she tries, to cook several times a day different dishes is not going to be a reality for this family. Pitt had a chef making different dishes for his children when he had them over, we can assume these kids do not sit down and eat 1 dish. Then there’s the teachers and the nannies. All these people do not work for free, those teams alone is a massive cost on a yearly basis. Especially these nannies who don’t babysit for a few hours, Jolie has nannies who speak different languages and travel with her. That’s a proper career not a few hours a day.
She said she’s just started cleaning dishes after the divorce. Is a start, right? I guess she intended she personally cleans and washes on the sink of her multimillion dollar Los Feliz mansion’s kitchen the dishes of all her 6 children after every meaI. Which doesn’t include homemade hotdogs, of course. Is the small things. LOL
Is Brad cutting down his expenses, he would be the person with money problems before Angie. Angie is frugal, by HW standards, no million dollar tables or chairs for her, unlike Brad.
Some are acting as if Brad had no obligation to help support his six kids. Angie did not have 3 of those kids without Brad’s help, and all six are legally Brad’s.
@Karen
She did get massive paychecks for the Kung Fu Panda films, especially the second and third. All the main characters did, which would be Angie, Jack and Dustin.
I posted a link below but she only got 1 million for Kung Fu Panda 2. It’s an animation, most actors don’t get massive paychecks for animations.
Her face looks fab. Great job with the fillers.
that’s an old photo. Her fillers as recently as her interview with BBC for her Cambodian film didn’t looked as good or/and settled.
She was late thirties here, and in the midst of her medical procedures and double mastectomy. Doubt she had fillers. Her face today doesn’t look dissimilar to this.
I’ve noticed a tendency for some women who are unable to give straight compliments to the beautiful women they irrationally hate, will try to make the beauty about artifice.
As if no one would be talking about Angelina’s beautiful face if she didn’t have these imagined fillers that they wish she had. Riiiight. Lol
That’s why no one really gives credence to cat scratching comments like these unless and except one wants to examine this bitter female pathology/psychology.
For instance – I’ve followed her fandom and haterdom a while, someone will claim she had filler at 35, then say she had a neck lift at 34 or say she had a nose job but then they’ll be all over the map – like they’ll say it was at 25, yet then when someone shows a pic of her 19 in Hackers with an almost exact nose, they’ll change their mind and say she had it at that age then. Then a few months later they’ll grab a pic of her when she was older than that and claim she hadn’t had it yet. Lmao
None of the critiques, dissassembling and body shaming makes sense from a rational perspective. The timelines are crazy. Only thing that adds up is that women behatin on beautiful women they’re threatened by, as usual.
@Bette
Strange that Angie looks exactly like she did at 10, when she went to the Oscars for the first time. Guess she had work done before she went. SMH
Angelina Jolie seems to have no limits. All of the top actresses who have pulled in millions of dollars for films, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lawrence, have their splurges and their limits. Julia, Jennifer, and Sandra love real estate and Jennifer L loves to fly private but they have limits. Angelina and Brad lived the most extravagant lifestyle out of A-list Hollywood with 6 kids. Constant private jet trips, luxury hotel stays (and damages), huge staff of nannies, security and assistants, ‘charity’ donations, shopping sprees, etc. Brad has been bringing in money over the last 5 years but she hasn’t and is continuing her lifestyle without his income and recently purchased a 25 million home. I don’t think she’ll go down the path of Johnny Depp but I am amazed by her income to spend ratio.
This is not hating on her but it is fact. She hasn’t had a big paycheck since 2014. She won’t get anything besides child support unless they agree to joint custody and then it is nothing.
Kaiser is right about this.
Where in the world do her stans get these ideas? If she is spending but not bringing in any money obviously her wealth shrinks.
I have been saying she needs to do more movies before she ages out of the high paying roles. She hasn’t worked consistently enough to be able to demand big paychecks as she ages.
I don’t think she is broke but I do think at her level of lifestyle she doesn’t have limitless money.
She’ll get half of what they have together and, as Pitt *has* been doing big budget films, it’s probably quite a bit. She just won’t get it until everything’s final.
Angie has already said she wanted nothing from Brad. Child support is a given.
I would love for Angie to start making movies again – so many great roles she could play. Not just big budget costume dramas or action films – real work, like she did in Gia and Girl Interrupted – except updated for issues that face a mature woman in her 40’s. I also think she could be great as Carly Simon if anyone ever wanted to do a film about Carly’s marriage and divorce from James Taylor. Perfect.
@Jessica
Aniston has NEVER received a big paycheck for any film, maybe ONE $10 million paycheck at most. Lately she’d have to PAY a Producer to be in a film.
Angie didn’t spend millions on art or furniture, that was Brad, and most likely he used his own money.
@Cara
You’re right, most of Aniston’s paychecks comes from Friends residuals, endorsements, investments, and flipping houses but she is still one of the wealthiest in Hollywood. I believe her net worth is more than Angelina’s at $200 million. She also doesn’t have 6 kids and lives a much more low-key lifestyle; I believe she sold her NYC home because she wasn’t going to use it as much. I believe she, Ellen DeGeneres, Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts are the most financially savvy women in HWood.
I don’t believe that Brad brought all this furniture and art for all of their homes and Angelina didn’t chip in at all. That doesn’t sound realistic at all (especially since she’s such an artist); Angelina has spent millions on clothes, gifts, shopping sprees, vacations, etc. They both have spent a lot of money but Brad has more money and has a higher income while continuing to work consistently.
Didn’t Aniston flip her homes too?
@Jessica
If JA is worth that amount, which she most certainly isn’t, wouldn’t the other 5 cast members be worth the same?????? Of course they would, yet no one wants to acknowledge the fact that the Friends cast took a 10 year payout where they made a very large sum of money in residuals per year, since then they probably
earn no more than $1 million a year in residuals, if that.
Aniston’s endorsements are not big money earners. Aniston flipped no more than one or two houses, she even lost a bundle on the apartments she bought in NYC and turned around and sold. It’s CC who has flipped houses for over 25 years and made a small fortune in that alone.
JA has never had a film make almost a billion dollars (counting DVD’s, OnDemand, etc) where she got back end points or a percentage of ALL the merchandising.
JA could count on 2 fingers the films she has been in that made a decent profit, she’s been in NO films where she was the lead that made a profit. Angie got and would still command the big paydays because she’s one of the few women in HW that can actually bring in an audience on HER name alone.
Lol she has 4 films coming out.Try again.
@Cara: From MoneyInc, written 9 months ago:
>>Royalties
In addition, the cast members received syndication royalties that were scheduled to start in 2000. This was a first in the industry since normally back-end profits, which can be very lucrative, were only offered to stars who were part owners of their shows, like Cosby and Seinfeld. And, very lucrative the “Friends” cast’s royalties ended up being. To this day, even though the show has been canceled for more than ten years, all the members of the cast are doing quite well. How well? To the tune of $20 million per year just from “Friends” reruns. Had they not negotiated that amazing back-end deal, they wouldn’t be making that kind of money. <<
Sure, Aniston has had no billion dollar films with backend. What she does have is a backend deal on Friends which has been earning a reported billion dollars a year in syndication year in and year out. Those numbers are kind of mind boggling when you think about it.
Even with Angie's film salaries and eventual backend deals, I rather doubt she's pulling in 20 million a year for doing nothing. House-flipping, we actually don't really know how any of them have done with that. For every deal we hear about, there may be 5 deals we don't. None of them are obliged to divulge their every move.
Endorsement deals. They all do those and it's certainly a nice revenue stream. But in that sense, both Pitt and Jolie would do well to take a page out of Clooney and Aniston's book. As in, investing in a company and using your celebrity to shill for yourself. The Casamigos deal was an eye opener. The sale of Living Proof may or may not have been along the same lines (the numbers weren't released), but whatever the offer was, it was generous enough that the shareholders jumped on it.
I have no idea why Jolie and Pitt haven't done the same for their wine and olive oil. A little late for the wine now, given Pitt's alcohol problem, which is too bad.
I don’t think Jolie gets as much attention as she did before. Pictures of her in sackdresses with the children aren’t ‘exclusives’ anymore at the top of gossip sites. It’s nothing new and people now more than ever see her as ‘crazy’ and also ‘vindictive’. I think she’s a beautiful woman but her style, if you can call it that, eliminates the ‘she’s the most beautiful woman’ aspect of her which used to be the main draw pre-Pitt. During Pitt, their status as a beautiful powercouple and unusual family unit with cute babies every year was the main draw. Jolie has been everything: the troubled rebel, the sexy actress, the adventurous mother, the humanitarian etc… all in quick succession with success. There’s not much left to go higher, every card has been played. Her latest era, being a director, is a dud.
I always saw Jolie as a person who hates limits but there are going to be limits in life even for rich successful people and I think that’s what she is experiencing now. Limits on her personal life and traveling now that her marriage is over and they’re not amicable but they have to be close to each other to facilitate the children having access to both parents. Limits in her career due to overestimating her skill as a writer and director. Limits as a media maverick due to making wrong choices about what she wants to share with her audience and the perception she wants people to have of her. And also because her children are getting into their teens now and babies just sell better.
The only reason why she was so present recently was due to the backlash not because people are tripping over themselves to know every detail about her like they did in the past. Look at Taylor Swift, she’s a 1-woman army. If she kicks a rock, it’s a top story that splits in 3 different stories on how, when and why she kicked the rock and what’s the meaning behind that. That used to be Jolie too, 2005-2010 was sheer madness for the JPs’ popularity and they knew how to play that up for maximum coverage. Jolie only has a small following in recent years which is evident when smaller less entertaining movies don’t make a lot of waves or money.
It’ll be interesting to see how she rebrands herself. Even a PR agent would struggle since Jolie has always been so many different things and at the core she’ll always be an interesting woman but she had a better career going on during her peak popularity and cute babies to distract for negative press. Oh and youth, definitely a big advantage in a superficial town like Hollywood!
I agree with all of this. Sad realty is that aging is a bitch, even for Jolie.
Most top tabloids site don’t buy pictures of kids with their parents shopping with the exception of daily mail and she is clever by not over dressing with that sack dress it will discourage paparazzi. So since 2010 or before she said she like to work less that what she Done since then. She knows what she is doing and what she wants in life, most of her interviews she always say her priorities is their children and her humanitarian work she never put her career first.
When you work less, you better make sure the work that what you do bring out occasionally, is of amazing standard. She choose to move away more from Hollywood but still has projects that are big budget and risky like Unbroken and By The Sea which require intensive press coverage and coins from the public. Her career just isn’t that good anymore. And I resent the fact that she had the balls to put it out there several times that she doesn’t care about films but then went into directing which is much more intense than acting. Or puts it out there that she doesn’t like people fussing over her make-up and hair when she acts but then plays Maleficent. She’s pushing and pulling Hollywood but her photoshoots are still classic Hollywood vamp/iconic for a reason. Her using her children in photo ops is a tired shtick, obvious and significantly less interesting. Her children were all of sudden on TV eating bugs post-divorce?
The reason why her 90s work is good (besides her amazing picker for scripts in that period) is that she was ambitious and passionate about her projects. If she wants to be a mom 1st, that’s fine but she can choose work that is closer to her actual talents than what she is trying to do now. I’ve said it before, her a documentary maker would be so much better. Her docu with Jeffrey Sachs was really good, I think she could be a good interviewer and documentary maker.
I think you’re right Artemis. She went from saying that she’s interested in things beside acting to putting down the business that’s afforded her this lifestyle. I think she’s in the midst of generational change in the audience as well.
I know there’s plenty of things she can do, but there isn’t much that’ll bring in the kind of coin she needs to maintain her overhead.
Artemis +100 with all you said. People and their successful careers have ups and downs and don’t stay amazing forever
makes me think of the 20th anniversary of princess diana going on at the moment. I was thinking that for some time the only one who seemed to be as charitable as Diana…was Jolie. But, in looking at old footage of Diana..and the impact she had ..I am Jolie is not in the same league. What bothers me is she can be glamorous and walking through land mines…like Diana…but she seems to forever have a cynical, tired way about her. Diana had something very different..pedigree, breeding, class..maybe it just means she did things with a flourish that Jolie does not possess…now even more so than in her best moments five years past.
Angelina is a Rorschact Test for other women. Like Hillary in many ways.
I’ve seen women ascribe motivations and ulterior motives to her life and actions which are the opposite of what she says she is.
I’ve seen women who literally wish her dead. Or want her to be over so bad, they began aging her out of Hollywood a decade ago when she had just crossed into her thirties. Certainly before her second Oscar nom.
I’ve seen the accusations of branding and PR to cover up her heinous past of murder and child beating- oops, I mean winning her Oscar, and accepting her award dressed goth and kissing her brother. That’s worse than murder. So of course she had to remake herself. The added horribleness of saying she liked sex…with (gasp!) her husband, insured she’d be making herself over for two decades. The shame. A few more schools for girls in Afghanistan just might make up for her adolescent cutting, which she should never live down..but I doubt it.
So @geneva maybe stop comparing remarkable women. princess Diana’s MIL thought Jolie worthy of a dame-ship, the Pope thinks she’s wonderful as does her industry who don’t just hand Herscholt Oscars to anyone, ask Clooney or super famous people a lot older than Angelina, who don’t have one…yet.
I think Diana was an exceptional woman who would admire Angelina herself. That’s another clue that she and Angelina were very similar – they didn’t live to attack other women. They concerned themselves with things that matter.
I would love to know the back end deal she got for Maleficent. I recall Alan Thorn chairman of Disney doing an interview with one of the Trade magazines maybe Variety and him mentioning it was the largest pay of her career. It made me think she got a heck of a back end deal on top of her salary.
She didn’t get a back end deal. She made 15 million.
If she does the sequel she may be able to negotiate for one but it depends.
Just interested how you know she didn’t get a back end deal. I remember reading at the time that she did.
Oh she got a big back end for maleficient most of the trades wrote articles and she got 20m for the role alone, the studios president of the major studios talked about this on a round table two years ago.
In the trade papers, they report in the end what a person has made total from a movie usually well after the movie has closed. Sometimes over a year. She made between around 16 million for it. Her upfront was the bulk of it.
There are different types of back end deals. Most of the time people are talking about Tom Cruise levels of back end deals and I thought you were talking about those. He has made 70 million plus from a single film.
Hollywood accounting is extremely convoluted. On purpose.
Whatever is negotiated can be classified as a back end deal if they aren’t getting a straight salary and it is dependent on the box office.
If you mean she negotiated a back end deal that added to her overall then yes. But it wasn’t a huge windfall back end deal. Usually, when it is mentioned as a talking point they are talking about huge numbers.
If she signs on for another one she will push for a much better deal with lots of bonuses. There are conflicting reports about if it is a done deal or not.
There is no movie without her, and she has proven this. She IS the movie. But she does pull out often so we will see.
Right now she can still get coveted projects green lit with a big payday. But she can’t let the window pass her by.
You are wrong, This is where Brad really came in handy, he taught her to negotiate the back end points, he’s been getting them far longer than most actors. Angie did indeed get back end points, and she made sure she was a Producer on the film. Angie is a very intelligent woman, ask anyone that’s met her.
@magnoliarose, you’re acting as if Angie is almost 50, she has only been 42 less than 3 months. She has years to make millions more.
What about the grand house she just bought? It looks like a interior design museum, not a house for a mom and six kids.
You’re right Ravensdaughter. VF quote about the $25 million purchase, “It wasn’t for the prestigious history or the architecture. She needed a good place fast, somewhere secluded, with a lot of rooms.” That is so strange to me. She buys this famous estate and then waves it off as this little unimportant detail. (And is amused by a big wet dog jumping on the white couch.)
That’s a historic house, I hope they take good care of it and see it as a home, not just a temporary place.
Being able to drop that money on a property that quickly, she’s not having financial problems.
I don’t doubt that her income has declined with her lack of movies lately, but I always had the impression that she wasn’t as quick to spend as Brad, and probably set herself up for the future pretty well. And if not, she can always do more ad campaigns.
Yep, that house is an investment. Built back when things were built to last. She’ll be able to sell it for a nice profit.
As for the dog jumping on the white sofa, she has people to clean that up, I’m sure it was being steamed before the reporter was even off the property. That’s why she can be amused by such things. I’m sure the housekeeper wasn’t as amused.
You don’t think she kept the house staged as it was pictured, do you?
Yes, Angie will make herself a nice profit when she decides to sell, it will now become the Angelina Jolie house.
I really liked her style pre Brad. She is still gorgeous but the sack dresses don’t do it for me. And yes they live large.
The sack dresses age her and exacerbate her pallor. She looks great, and more comfortable, in shirts and trousers.
I was wondering about her finances as well, how she can keep travelling around the world constantly. Brad was the bigger wage earner in the relationship.
A weird fading star.
She has spent a lot of time renting mansions, travelling the world, that has to be costly. Money doesn’t last forever and she isn’t earning the same wages that she did was she was younger.
+1. Traveling the world endlessly sounds so romantic and exciting for an adult but I don’t think it’s the best thing for children. Do the kids get to stay in one school for even a year? Do the kids get to have friends of their own choosing over for sleepovers and hanging-out fun? Those kids rarely look happy. I know the world’s refugees are a priority but adulting for your children is hard work that is neither exotic or romantic. She always sounded like she was chasing her own muse instead of nurturing her children.
You guys are assuming her only money is salary for films or modelling (which she donates). At this point, she is likely making a (virtually tax free) fortune off investments. Money breeds money, once you make a little, you start making a lot. Not because of you salaries, but because of your investments. Being even slightly smart with the kind of money she has made in her career would result in an enormous fortune, more than enough to support herself and set up generous trust funds for her kids. I remember a character actor telling me once all you need is one good role to be comfortable, three to be rich. That’s why franchise films are so popular with that type of actor (for instance, Frances McDormand deigning to do a Transformers film), one Disney paycheck and your kids are set for their lives, too. It’s not about your salary, it’s what you turn your salary into. Sure, she spends a lot. But I bet Angelina hasn’t touched the capital in years.
That’s what I am saying here people to understand in a interview she herself said she smart with money, I don’t know how but she knows what she is doing with her money, the woman is keep giving money to charity do you think if she was broke she will give money to charity when she needs the money herself.
You know that “charitable giving” is not just charitable, but it can have very beneficial offsets in terms of tax reduction and deferment. I’m putting down her giving in anyway, I’m just saying it’s not as cut dried as straight giving and it’s used to balance out a large portfolio.
NOT putting down her giving. Ugh.
Rich people run out of money all the time; Kimora Lee Simmons dipped into her son’s trust fund to pay for some of her home expenses. Money doesn’t grow on trees, even for wealthy people. She spends a lot and her income has dramatically been reduced, it probably has to be catching up to her. I’m not saying she’s broke but I think her spending to income ratio is a lot more even then her fans think it is.
That’s true, but it’s the “income dramatically reduced” part I take issue with, because a decrease in upfront film salaries does not necessarily mean less money overall. Everyone is assuming she suddenly has less money, but I doubt that. I do not doubt she has less compared to Brad, and I do not doubt, since they’re no longer combining incomes, she will have a “reduced” lifestyle, in that she may sell off some real estate and otherwise lower her overhead, since she doesn’t have Brad chipping in on costs, too. I just don’t assume that she’s suddenly cash strapped. She’s still rich.
I don’t think she’s cash-strapped either, not yet. It’s going to take years of wild spending without a replenishing income before that happens. But living the life of luxury (like buying a 25 million home) doesn’t mean she’s doing great either. Michael Jackson died broke and is now worth about 600 million, he could have used that when he was alive to pay his bills and his staff. I wonder if Angelina’s nannies would be as loyal to her as Michael’s staff was to him, working for months without pay (not that I think that’ll ever happen).
Algernon, that makes no sense.
Of course, she has touched her capital. The kind of wealth you are describing for her to have to live like she does and not touch the capital is not possible. Billionaires can but she isn’t a billionaire. Her total wealth assets included is around 150 or 160 million.
She needs to work. There is no way around that. That is if she wants to live large forever. A solid working character actor makes more money than people think. They get residuals from so many movies and television shows it just adds up.
Examples: I know a guy who was in a very successful pop group in the 90s early 2000s. His accountant told him he needed to make 10 million minimum to put away to be able to live comfortably for life with no frills but good investments. This was in 96 when he just hit it big that he was told this. Another guy is huge now with name recognition but the bulk of his ongoing money will be from royalties. Another is a woman I have known almost my entire life and father was extremely famous, and he did make money but was crazy with it. He died when she was very young but every month she gets these outrageous royalty checks which will then pass to her children since his work isn’t likely to fade or disappear.
AJ isn’t in a position to get big residuals for life. None of her movies are like The Godfather that is played all the time. I am sure she has a number she doesn’t like to go below.
I’m embarrassed to admit how much I want them to get back together or how sad their break up made me.
Me too. I loved what I thought their marriage was. Sob!
Cough:::::::Johnny Depp’s case has everyone scared in Hollyweird::::::::cough
We all assumed Johnny was doing fine because he kept his extravagant lifestyle and the paychecks were huge: not so much. With many luxury houses and highlife comes the upkeep and that’s just the top of the iceberg.
Nah, Pitts Pr team once again trying to gaslight and flip the script. They spend their hours tracking comments online. One particular site has been questioning Brad’s $ status especially after the lawsuit where he refused to pay his bills in France AND is already filming an action flick before his children are even done with the therapy he’s required to do with them. Sad.
His team is just using Angelina as a scapegoat as usual. They’ve always done this- anytime something questionable pops up about their leader they hurry up and plant fake news about Jolie in the tabloids. Yawn.
Not sure why my comment ended up way up there. Hmmm lol
Only one half of Brangelina looks desperate to bring in cash and it’s not Angelina. One half has now signed up for two action movies in a row. One about space and the other about zombies.
He knows where the money is at that he needs. No more artsy fartsy movies for the overrated actor.. Also he needs to pay child support. The kids are used to living a certain way. Just back up the money truck or sign over the check for the space movie and send to demille house in La.
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I love how people are speculating about ‘everything’ in her life. Fact is, nobody here who comments about her finances, filmwork, family, clothes or her lifestyle know the real truth. Still enjoyable reading how you think she’s exactly living her life though.
It is gossip. That is the fun part. lol
I don’t even know how my parents spend their money so that should tell you what my 2 cents are worth. lol
We need lighthearted distractions.
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She does live an extremely expensive lifestyle for someone who works like she does. The pricy real estate, the staff, the security, the travel…most celebrities who live like that have at least double what she has.
She’s also aging out of the action star market, which is where most of her good offers come from. It’s been a long, long time she’s she’s been in a really critically acclaimed film, so I don’t know that the big paycheques will be there for her as a serious older actress. Her directing isn’t exactly lighting the world on fire either.
I would believe she wasn’t going broke if she didn’t have six children. That’s the price of having kids – they cost a fortune over the course of a lifetime. Even for a normal middle class family, it costs upwards of a million dollars to raise ONE child today. If you factor in all the additional costs that most upper middle class families desire such as top notch child care, private schooling, private lessons, lots of toys and technology, and tuition at a top 20 university, you can double the cost it takes for a working class or middle class parent to raise one child. Jolie has six kids who are used to living in the lap of luxury. It would not surprise me if half of whatever she makes goes into the cost and upkeep of these children including housekeeping, nannies, and security to keep these kids safe and happy. If she isn’t making big Hollywood films for years, I can really see her finances being hit hard while maintaining a Hollywood lifestyle. No one can have both. Either you step out of Hollywood and move somewhere like Utah to live on a farm in seclusion, or you work consistently to afford jet setting and life in LA.
No one in their right mind would put 25 million dollars on a home if they were worried about money. Angelina is smart with money. Imho Brad was the spender, Angie sat on her money for 12 years. She is a planner. Do you think she would have left her comfort and start over by herself if she wasn’t aware of what she would do. Jolie has never lived lavishly until she got with Pitt. She has always been moderate and smart with her money.
Let me end by saying Brangelina was a brand worth millions of dollars. They have money stashed and invested everywhere. Don’t think she was asking for her share of her brand money in the divorce for nothing. People don’t take time to read these days, just continue to think, wish and hope she doesn’t anything, or doesn’t have stock. It is ridiculous. I wouldn’t be scared to bet she isn’t entitled a share in Plan B because Pitt was stupid and probably didn’t have a pre nup and this is the reason why it is taking so long to split their assets.
Nicolas Cage used to earn $20 million-dollar paychecks, and we know what happened there. Some people just buy too much crap.