Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just splashed out hella money for a new home in the French Rivera. The couple paid $70 million for a 25 bedroom chateau, complete with a vineyard, a moat, and some ponies.

A source close to the deal said: ‘It’s a place called Chateau Miraval which is in a tiny village called Brignol in the Var, not far from Aix en Provence.

‘There’s a lake and a swimming pool and fountains and fields with ponies in and it’s surrounded by a huge forest so no-one will be able to take pictures of them or the kids.

‘They’ll be moving in roughly three months and living there full-time.’

‘They’re going to enrol the kids in a local French school and they already have friends there like Bono and The Edge from U2 and Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis.’

The estate is situated at an altitude of 350 meters (1150 ft.), and spans 1000 acres. The magnificent cascading stone-walled terraces have been replanted with 13 different varieties of olives.

The estate is surrounded by water with twenty fountains, aquaducts, and a stream runs through hidden tunnels and into the moat and fills the lake.

Angelina is reportedly set to give birth to twins around August 19, and would like to be settled into the new place by that time.

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