Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s former French Quarter home will soon be up for auction

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s former French Quarter home will soon be up for auction

A New Orleans home once owned by Hollywood A-listers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and also once owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will soon go on the auction block.

According to Interluxe, which specializes in marketing and selling luxury real estate, the home encompasses 7,703 square feet and dates back to 1828. The French Quarter home features seven bedrooms, five bathrooms and two 1/2 baths.

The home was once the recording studio of Cosimo Matassa — a New Orleans native whose work is considered crucial to the birth of both R&B and rock and soul in the 1950s and 1960s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a nonperformer in 2012.

Pitt and Jolie would purchase the home in 2007 for $3.5 million, according to NOLA.com, for use as their residence when they were in New Orleans supporting the Make It Right Foundation, according to Interluxe. The foundation was launched to build new housing in the Lower 9th Ward devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Residents, however, later won a $20.5 million lawsuit against the foundation which claimed the houses were built with defective materials. The foundation has yet to pay residents the damages, NOLA.com reports.

Pitt and Jolie sold the home in 2016 for $4.9 million. It underwent a restoration in 2017, according to Interluxe, and has changed hands multiple times since Pitt and Jolie sold it, including the period during which it was owned by Allen.

The home, located on Governor Nicholls Street in the lower French Quarter, was also the 2023 “Downtown Dwellings” winner of HGTV’s “Ultimate House Hunt.”

Bidding begins on Dec. 11, with a starting bid of $1 million. The last time the home went on the market, it listed for $5.35 million.

Those interested in bidding on the home can register via Interluxe.