ScarletGirl wrote:
Yesterday I read that the Jolie-Pitts (the article called them "the Pitts," though we all know that isn't quite accurate) bought a villa in France for a cool $70 mil.--their sixth estate. And that's a couple who continuously spouts off about how much we should all be doing for world poverty! image Heh. I'll believe it when they put their money where their mouths are.


They do. They give 1/3 of their very sizable income to charities. That's millions upon millions of dollars every year. What they do with the rest of it I have no problem with.

BTW, they didn't buy the estate. Word is that they're renting it--mostly likely for a few months while they wait for the twins to be born.

Sorry, but when one-third of your income still allows you to pay for mortgages and property taxes on estates totaling over $87 million, I still think that's an absurd amount of wealth to hoard away for one family. Think of all the impoverished kids they could feed with the sticker price of just one or two of their homes.

(Btw, I am including the French chateau in that total since it hasn't been confirmed that they're only renting, and even if they are, they're going to be paying the mortgage with their monthly rent for as long as they have it.)

The day that a celebrity family chooses to live more like the rest of us is the day I'll listen to what they have to say about how I should apportion my money. I'm not saying they should live in a hovel, but people who make $55 million a year have more money than they could ever possibly need. Plenty of doctors, lawyers, and accountants manage to do just fine with one sizable home in the suburbs and a smaller one in the country, a few nice cars, and private schools for the kids. It makes me sick to see these actors carrying on in their mansions with 35 rooms and 20 fountains while people they claim to care so much about go without food or health care. Disgusting. image


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