In 2014, Angelina Jolie offered $250K to a collector for Hemingway's typewriter.

After hearing she was planning to allow Brad Pitt to use it, he turned down the money.

Today, the same collector sold the typewriter for $162,500. pic.twitter.com/XBW4HqIy7p

— Will Stern (@WillStern_) December 15, 2023

We have learned that after a year-long investigation by @60Minutes into the looting of Cambodian antiquities, and just days before our story is going to air, the @metmuseum is planning to announce tomorrow, together with SDNY, that the Met will return SOME of their looted… pic.twitter.com/FwJnVhE55I

— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) December 14, 2023

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and prosecutors announced that over a dozen ancient relics will be returned to Cambodia, following questions of whether the collection contained pieces that an alleged smuggler looted from Cambodia during its civil war. https://t.co/lJGEZTV0Ps

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 15, 2023

My old pal @DavidWaldstein stopped by NYT Styles to deliver a piece on possibly the world's greatest typewriter collection being put up for auction.

Want to own Ernest Hemingway's Underwood, which eluded Angelina Jolie? This is your chance. https://t.co/a1iJS8unFJ

— Benjamin Hoffman (@BenHoffmanNYT) December 7, 2023

Like when Mr. Soboroff backed out of a deal with the actress Angelina Jolie, refusing to part with Hemingway’s typewriter after she agreed to pay $250,000 for it. While reports at the time indicated Ms. Jolie was the one to walk away, Mr. Soboroff said he canceled the transaction when he learned that she intended to give the machine to her husband, Brad Pitt, for him to use. Mr. Soboroff might have allowed Mr. Pitt to bang away on Harold Robbins’s or Mae West’s machines, he said, but Hemingway’s typewriter was sacred.

“At that time, I could have used the money,” Mr. Soboroff said. “But nobody’s touching that one. Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter? No chance.”