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James Gray recently disavowed having anything to do with Brad's voice-overs in Ad Astra, indicating they were entirely Brad's making.
Variety Oct., 2022
“Creatively, it became a very torturous experience. The film was taken from me, ultimately: it’s not my cut of the movie, and I find it a very painful experience to have people tell me things they hated about the movie that I had nothing to do with.
Vulture, Nov. 2022
James, you’ve been more open recently about the difficulties you had on Ad Astra. Why did they force these changes on you?
J.G.: It was a kind of a perfect storm. The birthing of it was so screwed up for reasons that had nothing to do with the movie. New Regency made the film, and they were trying to get it through Fox, and we were talking to Fox people, and then Fox got sold to Disney and folded up, basically. .... Also, with a film that is quite personal, people sometimes see themselves in it and will argue that other things are better. I did not have final cut, so I could not say, “I don’t like it. That’s the way it is.”
Now, I was very upset about it because, as the writer-director, I felt that my view should win the day. And when people start coming up to you and saying, “Why’d you do all that stupid voice-over?” and you didn’t do it, that’s a very frustrating experience. But it’s not like I want people to hate the movie. The way I feel about it is — by the way, I’m not saying it’s as good — you hope it’s your own Blade Runner, where there are things in it that are clearly you that you love, and there are other things that were put into the film that aren’t you. There’s a lot I’m very proud of in the movie. But until then, I had been very lucky to have control over the films, and when the film stopped being a hundred percent mine, I became like a petulant little child.
Brad's character, the astronaut Roy McBride, is described as "exceptional across the board." He is sent on a mission to find his missing father and the source of the surges threatening Earth. His wife makes brief appearances, leaving him in the beginning and returning in the end, but has little to no dialogue. The notable voice-overs:
"So many times in my life, I've screwed up. I've talked when I should have listened. I've been harsh when I should have been tender."
"I made a promise to always be truthful, but I wasn't."
"I'm selfish. I'm selfish. I've let so many people down. I'm just a selfish person."
"A self-destructive side"
"I am looking forward to the day my solitude ends, and I'm home."
"I'm unsure of the future, but I'm not concerned. I will rely on those closest to me, and will share their burdens, as they share mine. I will live, and love."
It was obvious that these had nothing to do with Roy, that it was Brad and not Roy talking. While promoting the film, Brad told GMA: "I'm interjecting something, some point of view of mine" -- and was flustered when asked what it was.
The last voice-over is a love note and features suggestive cut aways to Roy's wife, but it is presented as a post-mission self evaluation that Roy submits to NASA because there is no reason for Roy to say it to his wife who is only tentatively returning to him. It's understandable that people found the voice-overs perplexing, and over time their complaints grated on Gray. He is now saying that Brad, a producer with his Plan B partners, essentially hijacked the film to place those voice-overs. Brad had told GMA, "James and I are both at an age where we've probably lived more than we have left. And you start thinking about impermanence." He wanted to publicly express his true thoughts and feelings against the false narrative they are forced to live under. He wanted the truth on the record in some form. It is a corollary to Galileo and the circumstances that led him to say "Eppur Si Muove". As Angelina explained her new tattoo to British Vogue in 2021: "'And yet it moves.' Galileo's reported words at the end of his trial, when he was forced to deny that the Earth moves around the Sun. Certain truths are undeniable."
The film ends with the aforementioned love note where Brad declares his trust and confidence in leaving his future entirely in Angelina's hands. Acknowledging her efforts to share his burden and help heal the family so his "solitude ends" and he is "home." It is because of her and with her that he "will live, and love." She kept his "low-grade depression" from becoming a more serious case. As he told AP, “There’s still much beauty in the world and a lot of love. And a lot of love to be given." It is also notable that it was during promo for OUATIH in mid 2019, a few months before Ad Astra, that he started wearing rings -- specifically, bee rings. At around that time Angelina told Harper's Bazaar, "Life takes many turns. Sometimes you get hurt, you see those you love in pain, and you can’t be as free and open as your spirit desires. It’s not new or old, but I do feel the blood returning to my body."
By coincidence, this was just posted:
One clip made me reflect on some of my other interviews …my one on one with Brad Pitt https://t.co/cqYJ1tRG2a via @GMA
— Adrienne Bankert (@ABonTV) November 7, 2022
"James and I are both at an age where we've probably lived more than we have left. And you start thinking about impermanence, you start thinking of your own personal values.
My style is, I'm interjecting something, some point of view of mine usually."
Which point of view were you interjecting here?
"Well, I ummmm
I'm listening
"Yeah, you are, and you're calling me out on it"
In a good way
"No it's fair, it's all fair. It's really coming to terms with knowing yourself. A full acceptance of yourself. Instead of living with regrets, or grief we carry. The loneliness we carry."
whimn.com.au Sept., 2019 Ad Astra
“I’m hoping to deal with all my regrets. It takes some forgiveness of self as well,” “And if there’s someone that you need to [apologise to], something you need to clean up, then you clean it up, and that’s the best you can do. Then maybe we can dispense with those regrets if they’re handled. I’m a big believer in making amends.
I don’t think I’m the only one to experience those bouts in your lifetime, those feelings of despair, of meaninglessness, of no worth. ...Everyone hits those darker periods in life where we feel really cut off from everyone and feel a profound loneliness, a real disconnection.”
When I grew up, the idea of therapy meant you had to be crazy. We weren’t taught to take inventory of how we were feeling and how to deal with those feelings. Nowadays, I try to be make that a daily practice.
But when I want to escape, I spend a lot of time in an art studio,” he says. “Or I will read the occasional book on spirituality, or listen to podcasts on philosophy. I also meditate and I do therapy, but I also talk to friends and find that a lot of stuff gets hashed out that way.”
Having lived all over the world, where does he call his favourite place?
“I’ve been thinking about that because I’ve been thinking about death, just in terms of, ‘Where do you want to spend that last leg of your life? We settle in places or get sucked into a place sometimes because of a job or for family, speaking of which, my kids have probably eight more years of school to keep us relatively in one spot. But then comes a time where you think about where you want to spend that last period. For me, it would be somewhere in the mountains.”
Various Ad Astra Sept. 2019
“I'm telling you, even someone who's hit the lottery has trouble sleeping sometimes,” Pitt says. “We all have our demons, the things we're wrestling with. We can spend a lifetime pushing them away until we have to deal with them at the very end in a very scary, frightening, ugly way. Or we can start acknowledging those. That's pretty much where I see it now.”
Pitt, who also has definite thoughts on "Netflix-cheating” as a concept. “See, this is the problem with (couple) viewing. It’s something you’ve got to say, ‘Honey, you're just going to have to catch up because I can't wait.'”
"James and I have been friends for a couple of decades and have always been pretty open in our conversations about our missteps -- the stupidity, really. ..."I think it's cyclical, certainly in America the post-war generation was all about strength and not showing weakness, and winning. And that works to a certain degree, but I think more vulnerability, more getting you arms around your successes and your failures, makes for a better partner, a better dad, a better son."
"We set out to make a very sincere film, a real bare bones, bare, raw honesty.
"You get older and you just get tired of protecting yourself or having any secrets. You want to get on with it and we wanted to get on with it in this film in a way. We all carry great pains, great regrets. We've all experienced loss, we've all experienced great loneliness at times. And we're good at packing that away and not dealing with it. Some of us are good at getting through it and coming out the other side with a more well-rounded, a more confident and loving human being. We just wanted, no holds barred, let's just go, let's get it out there."
"I mean a man who owns his own flaws and is aware of them and open about it. And vulnerable, with real feelings, rather than being this macho, trying-to-be-tough guy."
"I’m realizing, as a real act of forgiveness for myself for all the choices that I’ve made that I’m not proud of, that I value those missteps, because they led to some wisdom, which led to something else. You can’t have one without the other."
Drake, Harry and Meghan, and Angelina Jolie are among the Hollywood stars with the most EXORBITANT loans on their mansions https://t.co/YA5q7A73mm
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) November 1, 2022
With a $17.15M Comerica mortgage on the $24.95M purchase of the DeMille, the entire owners' equity of $7.8M was Brad's, structured as a loan to Angelina.
I believe he will be shouldering all the expenses they've incurred as a result of the incident, and it's extension with Nouvel.
ANGELINA JOLIE - $17.15MILLION/ $72,000 MONTHLY
After splitting with Brad Pitt, the Tomb Raider star bought late director Cecil B. DeMille's Los Feliz mansion for $25million in April 2017, with a $17.15million mortgage from Comerica Bank.
It has six bedrooms, ten bathrooms and sits in 2.1 acres of land, there is also a tea room and swimming pool.
The 47-year-old is worth $120 million according to Forbes, she can afford the estimated $72,000-a-month repayments.
The film star and her children moved into the sprawling 7,500 square foot home - just a few blocks away from the sprawling family home she once shared with her ex-husband Pitt, 58.
GQ, May 2017 War Machine
He mentioned his estranged wife's name only once, when referencing her Cambodia movie, First They Killed My Father, telling me, “You should see Angie's film.”
"And we grew up First Baptist, which is the cleaner, stricter, by-the-book Christianity. Then, when I was in high school, my folks jumped to a more charismatic movement, which got into speaking in tongues and raising your hands and some goofy-ass shit."
it didn't fuck me up—it just led to some eating questions at a young age.
I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called. And you know, after that, we've been able to work together to sort this out. We're both doing our best."
For me this period has really been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street. I'm an asshole when it comes to this need for justice. I don't know where it comes from, this hollow quest for justice for some perceived slight. I can drill on that for days and years. It's done me no good whatsoever.
Sitting with those horrible feelings, and needing to understand them, and putting them into place. In the end, you find: I am those things I don't like. That is a part of me. I can't deny that. I have to accept that. And in fact, I have to embrace that. I need to face that and take care of that.
This house was always chaotic and crazy, voices and bangs coming from everywhere, and then, as you see, there are days like this: very…very solemn. I don't know. I think everyone's creative in some way. If I'm not creating something, doing something, putting it out there, then I'll just be creating scenarios of fiery demise in my mind. You know, a horrible end. And so I've been going to a friend's sculpting studio, spending a lot of time over there. My friend [Thomas Houseago] is a serious sculptor. They've been kind. I've literally been squatting in there for a month now. "
I'm making everything. I'm working with clay, plaster, rebar, wood. .... Yesterday I wasn't settled. I had a lotta chaotic thoughts—trying to make sense of where we are at this time—and the thing I was doing wasn't controlled and balanced and perfect. It came out chaotic.
I remember literally having this thought a year, a year and a half ago, someone was going through some scandal. Something crossed my path that was a big scandal—and I went, “Thank God I'm never going to have to be a part of one of those again.” I live my life, I have my family, I do my thing, I don't do anything illegal, I don't cross anyone's path."
How do you make sense of the past six months and keep going?
"Family first. People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained or were awarded. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets—that seems to be the menu. I say that as someone who's let the work take me away. Kids are so delicate. They absorb everything. They need to have their hand held and things explained. They need to be listened to. When I get in that busy work mode, I'm not hearing. I want to be better at that."
AP, May, 2017 War Machine
He’s getting through it, he assured. “I’m not suicidal or something,” Pitt said, laughing. “There’s still much beauty in the world and a lot of love. And a lot of love to be given."
VF, July, 2017 FTKMF
"It’s just been the hardest time, and we’re just kind of coming up for air. [This house] is a big jump forward for us, and we’re all trying to do our best to heal our family.”
By the time First They Killed My Father was in postproduction, in the summer of 2016, “things got bad,” says Jolie. “I didn’t want to use that word. . . . Things became ‘difficult.’ ”
“They’ve been very brave. They were very brave.”
Brave when?
“In times they needed to be.” Other statements are similarly cryptic. “We’re all just healing from the events that led to the filing . . . They’re not healing from divorce. They’re healing from some . . . from life, from things in life.”
She looks down, formulates an answer. “We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.”
“I was very worried about my mother, growing up—a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me. I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right even when you’re not sure it is.”
NY Times, Sept., 2017 FTKMF
“It took me a few months to realize that I was really going to have to do it. That there was going to have to be another base regardless of everything,” she said, her voice falling quiet and low, as it would each time the subject of the split arose. “That there was going to have to be a home. Another home.”
The new house, a Beaux Arts manse that was once the residence of the legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, is a beaut, with a library, rolling lawns, cascading fountains that burble into the pool, and a view of the Griffith Observatory. Ms. Jolie had an elaborate treehouse built — “more a parkour treehouse,” she said — and the kids helped decorate and pick out the furniture for the whole house. They have an agreement, Ms. Jolie said, that not everyone can agree on everything, but you have to try to like it if you don’t hate it. If you do hate it, you can overrule.
“It has a lot of moments,” Ms. Jolie said of the home, “It’s happy. Happy and light, and we needed that.”
I asked how everyone is doing now.
“None of it’s easy. It’s very, very difficult, a very painful situation, and I just want my family healthy,” she said quietly.
Are they? “They’re getting better,” she said, her voice approaching inaudibility.
She intimated that “First They Killed My Father” might have informed her decision to leave Mr. Pitt. The film centers on Ms. Ung’s family members, some of whom survived, and Ms. Jolie said she thought a lot about what family meant during production, and how they should help each other and take care of one another (the film is adapted from Ms. Ung’s 2000 book of the same name). “Loung had such horrors in her life but also had so much love, and that is why she’s all right today,” Ms. Jolie said. “That is something I need to remember.”
Awards Chatter, December, 2017, FTKMF
"I’m happy we did that film (By the Sea) because we did explore something together, and whatever it was, maybe it didn’t solve certain things, but it did, we did communicate something that maybe needed to be communicated to each other.”
Inquirer, November, 2015 By the SeaAd Astra
"We thought, this is the best honeymoon because we felt, as the film says in the end—whatever you go through, weather the storm and stay together. It was a message to each other of we are going to weather whatever comes and we are going to stick together so that was nice."
eOnline Oct., 2019 Maleficent Mistress of Evil
"The real truest love pulls out your best self. It's what you value, what you're loyal to and what you're willing to fight for."
MMoE, Tokyo Premiere
Is there anything more powerful than love?
“Family.”
Harper's Bazaar, Nov., 2019 Guerlain
Life takes many turns. Sometimes you get hurt, you see those you love in pain, and you can’t be as free and open as your spirit desires. It’s not new or old, but I do feel the blood returning to my body.
I would love to live abroad and will do so as soon as my children are 18. Right now I’m having to base where their father chooses to live.
Vogue, June, 2020, World Refugee Day
After choosing to separate from your partner and children’s father, actor Brad Pitt, how have you sustained a healthy environment for your children?
“I separated for the wellbeing of my family. It was the right decision. I continue to focus on their healing. Some have taken advantage of my silence, and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds. In fact, they are six very brave, very strong young people.”
British Vogue, March 2021 Know Your Rights
On her latest tattoo EPPUR SI MUOVE: "'And yet it moves.' Galileo's reported words at the end of his trial, when he was forced to deny that the Earth moves around the Sun. Certain truths are undeniable."
On Family barbecues: "Some of us are vegetarian, some are pescatarian, some eat all meat. For those of us who no longer eat meat, Korean barbecue is the most missed meal."
"I feel like I’m lacking in all the skills to be a traditional stay-at-home mom. I’m managing through it because the children are quite resilient, and they’re helping me, but I’m not good at it at all."
Oh, I don’t believe that!
"Well, I love them. I feel like we’re such a team. It may sound clichéd, but you love and you try, and even if you burn the eggs, that doesn’t matter in the end. But also, you’ve met our kids. They’re pretty capable."
We had the great pleasure of photographing you at your home, which also happens to be the former estate of Cecil B DeMille. How wonderful…
"I wanted it to be close to their dad, who is only five minutes away."
Where do I find you in your life and your outlook?
"I’m feeling that I’ve come through a few things. I’m trying to be hopeful. I think this is something we’ve all discovered through the pandemic.
You’ll soon be publishing a book for children and young adults with Geraldine Van Bueren QC and Amnesty International – can you tell me a little about it?
"It’s called Know Your Rights (And Claim Them). We want to help young people to identify who or what is blocking them from accessing their human rights, and how to try to overcome that. The message to young people is, no one has the right to harm you, to silence you.
Do you feel as if you’re at a happy stage in your life?
"I don’t know. The past few years have been pretty hard. I’ve been focusing on healing our family. It’s slowly coming back, like the ice melting and the blood returning to my body."
It’s a journey…
"But I’m not there. I’m not there yet. But I hope to be. I’m planning on it. I do like being older.
"So I like it. I’m looking forward to my fifties – I feel that I’m gonna hit my stride in my fifties. Though we were on the trampoline the other day, and the children said, “No, Mom, don’t do that. You’ll hurt yourself.” And I thought, “God, isn’t that funny?” There was a day I was an action star, and now the kids are telling me to get off the trampoline because I’ll hurt myself."
I love that. Kids will always tell you how it is.
"Even at their young age they know that what matters is to feel safe and loved and stable. To not see those you love harmed. To know your own mind and truth and not to live a lie."
Brisbane Times, May, 2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead
“My mother was very gentle,” says Angelina. “I can be many things in my work and in life, but I am very warm and gentle with my children. That kindness and warmth is a foundation that’s unbelievably important. She gave me many other things and taught me many lessons. But if you don’t have that base, to feel valued and safe, then it’s hard for any of the other messages or lessons to land."
Those Who Wish Me Dead, Press Day, May, 2021
"This is how you pull through, you pull through together.
Find who you share the same morals and values with, and trust the right people, and hold those close."
Guardian UK, Sept. 2021 Know Your Rights
“Then I had an experience in the States with my own children and I thought... well, human rights, children’s rights.” “I remembered the rights of the child, and I took them out and looked at them and thought: well, these are for when you’re in a situation and you want to make sure there is support for the children in your life.”
“Then I found out the US hadn’t ratified the rights of the child. One of the ways it affects children is their voice in court – a child in Europe would have a better chance of having a voice in court than a child in California. That said a lot to me about this country.”
And did she fear for the safety of her children? This time she answers.
“Yes, for my family. My whole family."
“Often you cannot recognise something in a personal way, especially if your focus is on the greatest global injustices, because everything else seems smaller. It’s so hard. I’d like to be able to have this discussion and it’s so important...” “I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly. It took a lot for me to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children.”
“What I know is when a child has been harmed, physically, emotionally, or witnessed the harm of somebody they love or care for, it can cause damage to that child. One of the reasons children need to have these rights is because without them they are vulnerable to living unsafe, unhealthy lives.”
When was the first time she felt sufficiently disrespected in the industry to tell somebody to fuck off?
"Well, no surprise, Harvey Weinstein. I worked with him when I was young.” “If you get yourself out of the room, you think he attempted but didn’t, right? The truth is that the attempt and the experience of the attempt is an assault.”
What happened? “I really don’t want to derail the book into stories about Harvey.” But that was an abuse of rights? “It was. It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape. I stayed away and warned people about him. I remember telling Jonny, my first husband, who was great about it, to spread the word to other guys – don’t let girls go alone with him. I was asked to do The Aviator, but I said no because he was involved. I never associated or worked with him again. It was hard for me when Brad did.”
In 2012, she says Pitt approached Weinstein to work as a producer for the noir thriller Killing Them Softly, which the Weinstein Company later distributed. In doing so, Jolie felt he was minimising the sexual assault she had endured. “We fought about it. Of course it hurt,”
How are you? “It’s really hard to answer.” “How am I? I’m realising that sometimes you can survive things, but not know how to feel and live in the same way. So it’s more about being open. I’m really trying to be open as a human being again.”
"I think at the end of the day, even if you and a few people you love are the only people who know the truth of your life, what you fight for, or what you sacrifice, or what you’ve suffered, you come to be at peace with that, regardless of everything going on around you.”
"It has been so horrific that I almost have to see it as a godsend to be in a position to be able to fight this system. It doesn’t start with the violation [the plane incident]. It’s so much more complicated than that.
“My 17-year-old, for example, has been denied a voice in court.”
I just want my family to heal. And I want everyone to move forward – all of us, including their dad. I want us to heal and be peaceful. We’ll always be a family.”
CBS, Sept., 2021 VAWA
"It's a health crisis, what is happening," "And it's going to be solved if you look at it as healthy families and invest in when there is the harm within the families, especially for the children. Getting the care early, and prevention, and a lot of the - as they say 'the upstream.' A lot of focus on the prevention and the health and really seeing it that way. So it's a less adversarial situation and more about keeping families together. Focusing on protection of women and children, but protection of the whole family."
NBC Today, March, 2022 VAWA
“Yes, I've been in a family court system.
My children’s health is my priority at this moment,” she added. “And my focus for the last few years has been to help my family and … to focus on helping change laws to protect other families and other women and focus on their stories.
I think once you’re exposed to this system, whoever you are, once you’re exposed to it and you realize how unbelievably broken this system is, you have to do something to improve it.”
@TODAYshow VAWA
“There is science behind…the real medical damage that is done when there is abuse and post traumatic stress disorder and trauma…& if it's not responded to by the authorities appropriately, how that grows worse” Angelina Jolie says on the impact of violence on kids.
ABA
"None of these issues in America were at the center of my work until it became personal."
GQ, June, 2022 Bullet Train
"He’s also a guy who, hidden under his shirt, has a line from a Rumi poem inked across his right bicep: “There exists a field, beyond all notions of right and wrong. I will meet you there.” It’s a deeply romantic idea, but does it also hint at a certain solitude? “I always felt very alone in my life,” he explains, “alone growing up as a kid, alone even out here, and it’s really not till recently that I have had a greater embrace of my friends and family. What’s that line, it was either Rilke or Einstein, believe it or not, but it was something about when you can walk with the paradox, when you carry real pain and real joy simultaneously, this is maturity, this is growth.”
I think joy’s been a newer discovery, later in life....I spent years with a low-grade depression, and it’s not until coming to terms with that, trying to embrace all sides of self—the beauty and the ugly—that I’ve been able to catch those moments of joy.”
My interpretation of the stabbing dreams were on the surface about fears, feeling unsafe, completely alone—but beneath it all they mostly seemed to be about buried needs—those aspects of self that weren’t allowed to bloom as a child—like healthy anger, individuality, or especially a voice."
And he explains, as if to a friend, something he has learned about effective communication in a relationship, emphasizing that a healthy self begins with taking “radical accountability.”
AFP Bullet Train
"I'm over that hump of middle age and so I'm looking at that last leg... how do I want to spend that time? At my age, you've made enough mistakes... now there's a comfort in applying that kind of wisdom."
Variety, Aug., 2022 Without Blood
“I read it right as I was going through the beginning of a very dark time in my life. I read it in the month that followed my divorce [from Brad Pitt in 2016],” recalls Jolie, who shot the adaptation at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. “It had the effect on me that it’s had on so many people,” Jolie says, noting that the blurb on the cover says that the book is about the complexity of the human condition
“This film raises different questions; there is no clear good and bad in this film, even though there is clearly bad, horrible, horrific and criminal behavior.”
FT, Oct., 2022 WE
“It’s all about self-reflection,” “I was looking at my own life and really concentrating on owning my own shit: where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I mis-stepped. For me, it was born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, getting really brutally honest with me, and taking account of those I may have hurt.
You have to understand, at least where I grew up, we’re more the Clint Eastwood character; you hold everything within, you’re capable, you can deal with anything, you don’t show weakness. I see that in my dad and the older generations of actors, and, man, it’s exhausting. As I get older, I find such a comfort in friendships where you can be [completely yourself], and I want that to extend in the outer world. What people make of it: I’m fine. I feel safe here because there’s a focus on our struggles as human beings, because it’s fraught with peril. And joy as well.”
I find I have to walk with the pain I experience, and I have to walk with the joy, the beauty.”
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Daily Mail
DailyMail.com did some digging into public records and can reveal which A-list singers and film stars took out mortgages for their pricey palatial homes.
'It usually comes down to one reason. Typically the investor feels that what they are paying on the mortgage is less than what they can do with that money by investing it,' Robert Pagliarini, based in Irvine, California told DailyMail.com.
BEYONCE AND JAY-Z - $52.8MILLION/$226,901 MONTHLY
The Hollywood power couple paid $88million in August 2017 for a stunning property in Bel Air, which features eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, four outdoor swimming pools, and a spa and wellness center.
They borrowed $52.8million to buy the place and refinanced again last year with Goldman Sachs for exactly the same amount at a fixed rate of 3.15 per cent, with repayments working out at an eye-popping $226,901-a-month.
DRAKE - $52.5MILLION/$220,000 MONTHLY
The Canadian rapper, 36, bought his Beverly Hills home from British singer Robbie Williams for a staggering $75million this year in March, seven years after the Take That star purchased the property for $32million.
Drake took out a $52.5million home loan from Bank of America, with mortgage repayments of around $220k-a-month, and an assumed an interest rate of 3 per cent.
The stunning 24,260 square foot estate sits on Beverly Hills Crest, and has ten bedrooms, 22 bathrooms, a tennis court, swimming pool and is said to be the biggest property in the 90210 zip code.
THE WEEKND - $48.3MILLION/ $203,000 MONTHLY
The Canadian singer, 32, blew an eye-watering $70million on a nine-bedroom Bel Air mansion with 13 bathrooms, an indoor and outdoor pool with waterfall, sports court and cinema in August 2021.
At the time, he initially borrowed $55.2million from the City National Bank in a mortgage deal to rent out the property.
But that arrangement changed in February 2022, according to publicly available records.
The Weeknd - whose real name is Abel Tesfaye - reduced that figure to $48.3million, with his payments amounting to about $203k-a-month, and deciding he wanted to move into the place instead.
Boasting 13 bathrooms, an indoor pool, spa, outdoor pool and waterfall, gym, sports court, and cinema, the 33,000-square foot mansion was previously purchased by Media mogul Reinout Oerlemans and his wife Danielle in June 2015 for $21.4million
MARK WAHLBERG - $39.9MILLION
In 2009, the 50-year-old actor splashed out $8.25million on a plot of land in the North Beverly Park area to build his dream home with 12 bedrooms, a pool, library, theater and five-hole golf course.
In April, Wahlberg put the mansion on the market for a cool $87.5million, but then two months later borrowed $39.9million from the Bank of New York Mellon. The property is yet to be sold.
JENNIFER LOPEZ AND BEN AFFLECK - $14MILLION/ $59,000 MONTHLY
Lopez, 53, purchased a seven-bed, 13-bath Los Angeles property for $28million in May 2016, borrowing $14million from JP Morgan Chase Bank.
They'll never have to worry about the $59,000-a-month repayments, being worth $305million between them, according to Forbes.
Although Affleck, 50, does have other financial burdens, as he owns a seven-bedroom mansion in Pacific Palisades, which cost him $19million in April 2018, and has a $12million mortgage with First Republic Bank.
JOHNNY DEPP - $10MILLION
The former Pirates of the Caribbean star has been through the financial mill after admitted to blowing $650million during his career and going through a protracted legal battle with ex Amber Heard.
But he's kept hold of some of his assets, including his main LA residence, a 1920s-era eight bedroom castle-like abode, which cost $2.15million in 1995.
In March this year, Depp, 59, took out a $10million mortgage with City National Bank, maybe to pay some of his hefty attorney fees.
MEGHAN AND HARRY - $9,522,500/ $40,000 MONTHLY
After leaving the Royal Family in 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made the move across the pond and settled into a $14.65million Montecito mansion in June that year.
As Meghan, 41, and Harry, 38, have been cut adrift from the royal purse, the pair have had to fend for themselves and took out a huge $9,522,500 mortgage with City National Bank, costing around $40,000 in monthly payments.
ADELE
In August, DailyMail.com revealed that Adele, 34, had taken out a $37.7million mortgage to buy Sylvester Stallone's epic eight bed, 12-bath Beverly Park home for $58million six months ago.
KANYE WEST
Kanye West, 45, bought a Japanese-inspired $57.25million Malibu property in September 2021 without any help from the bank.
RIHANNA
The superstar singer, 34, bought two places within four months of each other - and didn't need a mortgage for either.
Rihanna paid $13.75million in December 2020 for a seven-bedroom Beverly Hills mansion, then bought the four-bed property next-door for $10million in March 2021.
TAYLOR SWIFT
the 32-year-old paid $25million cash on a Beverly Hills mansion in September 2015, which was owned by the family of late Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn.
