Celebrity homes: Ellen DeGeneres buys Brad Pitt’s Malibu house for $12m
The Emmy Award-winning talk show siren, Ellen DeGeneres has reportedly moved in an expensive Malibu property which was earlier bought by Brad Pitt. The sprawling property is priced at US$12 million and has been bought by her with partner Australian Portia de Rossi. The four-bed, four-bath home is known to have environmentally-friendly bamboo flooring, glass walls, a swimming pool and a tennis court. Brad Pitt had purchased this one in the swanky Encinal Bluffs enclave, shortly after this much-talked-about split with Jennifer Aniston. He moved in here with his present love beau Angelina Jolie. Besides this, the couple now owns a three-house compound in Los Angeles; a funky beach house in Santa Barbara, California; a chateau in France; a luxury home in New Orleans; and a house on stilts in rural Cambodia. The news about Ellen’s interest in the estate first flew around Thanksgiving, a month after she and wife Portia De Rossi put their Beverly Hills compound for $49 milli...