"overheard telling a private greeter at Linate Airport that he was “headed to Lake Como to visit Clooney and his wife, Amal,” according to our source.
This is odd for a number of reasons.
Someone there to assist Brad upon arrival would already know where he was going. His security would have to know.
If he was "flanked by “a team of security guards” as he “rushed through passport control" so speedily that the source remarked, “Brad Pitt’s a ghost!” at what point could that conversation have taken place and been overheard?
Revealing where he was going and who he was meeting loud enough to be overheard in public would defeat the evidently elaborate security and privacy arrangements made for his arrival.
Inez. A very public appearance at the British Grand Prix, no appearance in Miraval or Lake Como. There for work, not for play. What is their arrangement? Is there remuneration?
Brad Pitt jets to Italy to visit BFF George Clooney after daughter Shiloh drops famous last name https://t.co/8GRWs76CqM pic.twitter.com/VW9azORNvA
— Page Six (@PageSix) August 20, 2024
As Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s teen daughter Shiloh Jolie officially dropped her dad’s famous last name Monday, Pitt was spotted over the weekend headed to hang with his Hollywood BFF George Clooney, we hear.
Spies told Page Six they saw Pitt arriving via private jet in Milan — and that the “Fight Club” star was overheard telling a private greeter at Linate Airport that he was “headed to Lake Como to visit Clooney and his wife, Amal,” according to our source.
The insider added that the star was solo without gal pal Ines de Ramon, and that, Pitt, 60, “wore a beige bucket hat, aviator glasses, a navy, casual jacket and blue jeans and sneakers.”
The star allegedly was flanked by “a team of security guards” as he “rushed through passport control and practically jogged past bystanders who had gathered to see him.”
“One of the guards approached several groups of people hanging out, and said, ‘Are you all supposed to be here?’ ” we hear, as “Pitt ran by and into a waiting Range Rover.”
A black Mercedes wagon apparently followed and “in mere minutes he came and went,” said the spy.
“Brad Pitt’s a ghost!” quipped the impressed jet-setter who’d landed on a private flight ahead of the star.
Pitt and Clooney, 63, were just on the cover of GQ together for a story titled, “George Clooney and Brad Pitt are Hollywood’s BFFs.”
The GQ piece stated, “They’ve spent three decades living intertwined lives at the inconceivably glamorous height of Hollywood. Now, having crossed the threshold of 60, they’re more comfortable than ever throwing bombs, dispensing hard-won wisdom, and, yes, arguing about who had the better mullet in the ’80s.”
Clooney has a 25-room villa on Lake Como after he combined two properties in the chic area. Pitt owns his own French estate, Château Miraval, which has been at the center of his divorce battle with Jolie.
A rep for Pitt did not comment.
Three weeks after the GQ interview at Chateau Miraval, his brother Doug and his family stayed for a week. The first post was dated two days after Pax's accident. Most of the large art pieces on display appear to be by Thomas Houseago. None of Brad's Tampere pieces were visible.
