Look out Nawlins -- Brangelina's movin' on in!"Neighbors have seen them come and go and can't be more tickled that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have moved into the French Quarter. "It's great if they're here to stay and to be a part of the community," said Rayna Nielsen, who lives across the street from the early-1830s masonry mansion where the celebrity couple has been spotted in recent weeks....Real estate records for the house, which is near the French Market, show it was purchased for $3.5 million in cash on Jan. 2. Neither Pitt nor Jolie are named in the transaction. Mondo Bongo Trust is listed as the buyer. A real estate listing for the property shows the house has a grand spiral staircase, elevator, gourmet kitchen, a large private courtyard and a separate two-story guest house. It also has private parking for two cars — a luxury in the French Quarter....The celebrity couple has helped raise awareness of the city's devastation following Hurricane Katrina. Pitt, an architecture enthusiast, teamed up last year with Global Green USA to sponsor an eco-friendly design competition to rebuild parts of the city that were the hardest hit by the August 2005 storm. Construction on the project will begin in the Holy Cross neighborhood in the city's devastated Lower Ninth Ward in February or March, said Trevor Neilson, philanthropic and political adviser for the couple. The project will include 12 apartment units, six single-family houses, a community center and day-care facility to be built on 1.5 acres along the Mississippi River, Neilson said." [usa today]Well, there's no making fun of that. Good on ya, Brad.
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Why doesn't this sit well with me? It's nice that they're helping out, and all, roughing it amongst the common folk. Tell me, are they going to invite those folks who lost everything due to Katrina into their mansion with that "grand spiral staircase, elevator, gourmet kitchen, large private courtyard, separate two-story guest house, [and] private parking for two cars"? At the end of a long, hard day of doing good, Brad and Angie will return to the cushy lap of luxury, where they'll pat each other on the back for said good doing while they await television interviews in which they'll be lauded for their deeds, and count the hours until they're canonized as saints.
While I do actually admire them for at least taking an interest in the plight of the less fortunate (something many celebrities do not do), I still feel that this is kind of "in your face" charity from a guy who publicly dumped his wife for another woman, and a woman who wore a vial of her husband's blood around her neck and was seen locking lips with her own brother. To me, the zeal and relish with which they so kindly help the weak and downtrodden is a concerted effort to erase the past. But that's just one person's opinion....
they just saw a good real estate opportunity. pretty sure you can get some good deals down there right now.
johnny
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