Brad Pitt Net Worth

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Brad Pitt Net Worth, How did the American actor earn his wealth? Read on to find out more about Brad Pitt Net Worth and his career.

Brad Pitt Early Life

He is an American award-winning film actor and producer. He and his two younger siblings were raised in Springfield Missouri. He went to the University of Missouri where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising.

While in college,  Brad Pitt caught the acting bug and had the idea to move to Los Angeles. He left school just two weeks short of completing his degree and moved to California.

He was previously married to actress Jennifer Aniston. They got married in 2000 and divorced in 2005. Rumors had it that they broke up after he started  an affair with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie. 

After being in a relationship for nearly a decade Brad Pitt and Angelina got married in 2014. They separated in 2016 but divorced in 2019.

Brad and Jolie have six children, a mix of adopted and conceived. 

Brad Pitt Career

William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on December 18, 1963 and was raised in Springfield, Missouri. He landed his first film role background part in a film called Hunk.

He was also seen in the background of the 1987 Kevin Costner movie No Way Out. After several guest appearances and minor roles, he gained notoriety for his supporting role in Thelma and Louise before proceeding to star in the Academy-Award winning 1992 film A River Runs Through It. 

Brad received huge praise for his performance in the highly successful 1995 crime drama Seven, which grossed $327 million worldwide. He received a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award nomination for his next film, 12 Monkeys.

His dedication to his roles has taken him up the Alps, in the boxing ring, and in the depths of startlingly accurate accents. Brad’s other films include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Oceans Eleven, World War Z, Troy, Babel, Fight Club, Moneyball, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

In November 2001, he co-found Plan B Entertainment with his wife at the time, Jennifer Aniston. He bought Jennifer out of the company after their divorce. Plan B entertainment has produced dozens of successful films including  Eat Pray Love, Troy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Departed, World War Z, Moneyball, Kick-Ass, 12 Years a Slave, Ad Astra and The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Brad has been actively involved with a number of humanitarian causes all through his career. He has also donated generously to the ONE Campaign, Make It Right Foundation, and global humanitarian aid fund, Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which he co-founded with his partner Angelina Jolie. 

He and Jolie donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders in the wake of the Haiti earthquake in 2010. Through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, they donated tens of millions of dollars to charity. 

Through the Make It Right Foundation Brad built 150 affordable homes in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward in the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Brad Pitt has been nominated for several Academy Awards. He also won an Academy Award as a Producer in 2014 when the film took home the Best Picture award.

Brad Pitt Net Worth and Earnings

Brad Pitt Net Worth as of today is $300 Million. Brad Pitt Net Worth is accumulated from his career as an actor and producer.

He is one of the highest-paid entertainers and most-famous in the world earning a minimum of $20 million for major motion picture releases. 

In 1991, he  earned just $6,000 for his bit part in Thelma & Louise. After two years, he earned $500,000 for Kalifornia which is the same as just under $1 million after adjusting for inflation. 

Then two years after Kalifornia, Brad earned a cool $4 million for Se7en. The year after, he earned his first $10 million paycheck for Sleepers. He also earned another $10 million for Seven Years in Tibet.

In the late 1990s, Brad’s base film salary had increased to $17.5 million, which he earned for Met Joe Black, Spy Game, Fight Club and Troy. He also earned $20 million for Mr. & Mrs. Smith and earned $20 million for most starring roles that he is not producer. 

Brad divided his salary in half to $10 million to appear in Tarantino movies Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

He accepted a lower base salary of $10 million in exchange for a percentage of backend receipts in 2001 when he co-starred in Ocean’s Eleven. He later ended up earning $30 million from the film.

As a film producer, Brad has earned untold additional millions probably more than what he has earned during his career as an actor.

After his wife ‘Jolie’ delivered their daughter Shiloh, the couple sold the North American photo rights to People Magazine for $4.1 million and the British rights to Hello! for $3.5 million, for a total payday of $7.6 million. 

After the birth of their twins Knox and Vivienne, they also sold the rights to People and Hello! for a total of $15 million. That still stands as the record for most-expensive celebrity photographs of all time.

Brad Pitt owns a portfolio of real estate that is worth over $100 million. His longtime primary home in LA has been a veritable compound that he has pieced together over the years through multiple transactions. 

However, located in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood, today the property is made up of 5 contiguous parcels over nearly 2-acres. The property also has four homes including a 6,600 square-foot main house. Brad bought his first parcel in the compound in 1994.

Brad spent $4 million on a beach house in Santa Barbara in 2000.

In 2006, around the time Brad was planning the construction of 150 of affordable homes in New Orleans, he spent $3.5 million on a historic mansion in the city’s famous French Quarter. He and Jolie listed the home for sale in 2015 for $6.5 million but later took the property off the market after not finding a buyer.

The couple spent a mouth-water $67 million on a 1,200-acre winery in the south of France called Chateau Miraval in 2008. The main house on the property has 35 rooms, several guest houses and a recording studio. 

Pitt and Jolie actually married at the chateau in 2014 so this property became a major point of contention during their divorce proceedings and caused the final settlement to drag on for years.

They eventually reach a settlement that likely involved an agreement that they would either sell the property down the road or allow their children to be the primary heirs.

Brad Pitt bought a villa on the Spanish island of Majorca for $3.7 million in 2015.

Summary: 

William Bradley Pitt is an American award-winning film actor and producer. He received a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award nomination for his next film, 12 Monkeys.

Brad Pitt has been nominated for several Academy Awards and has been actively involved with a number of humanitarian causes all through his career.

As of 2020, Brad Pitt’s net worth is $300 Million.