Brad Pitt Gets Conned Into Hunting For Fake Buried Treasure At His French Mansion

In a surprising rebuke of in the present day’s relatable celeb tradition, Brad Pitt revealed he spent a yr attempting to find buried medieval treasure that by no means existed beneath his French property.

Sure, for some cause the Oscar winner selected to return clear about getting swindled by an unnamed man who satisfied him that the property he as soon as shared with ex-wife Angelina Jolie was much more beneficial than the estimated $60 million the previous couple forked over for it again in 2008.

Talking with GQ in a profile printed on Wednesday, Pitt mentioned he was instructed that there have been “hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of gold” left by the villa’s medieval homeowners that had been “taken from the Levant through the Crusades and buried on the grounds.”

“I bought obsessed,” mentioned Pitt, who acquired radar tools to hunt for the loot. “Like for a yr, this was all I may take into consideration, simply the thrill of all of it. Possibly it has one thing to do with the place I grew up, as a result of within the Ozark Mountains” close to his childhood house in Missouri, “there have been all the time tales of hidden caches of gold.”

Finally, Pitt got here up empty, and it was revealed that the person had focused him as a possible investor in a radar firm and (efficiently) pitched the prospect of undiscovered riches to dupe the actor.

Pitt mentioned the ordeal left him feeling “fairly silly in the long run.”

“It was simply the hunt that was thrilling,” he remarked.

Regardless of the marginally embarrassing admission, there are grounds to imagine buried treasure might lay beneath the historic villa.

Pitt’s Château Miraval sits alongside an historical Roman commerce route and comprises a sprawling property and numerous constructions, together with the Thirteenth-century chapel the place he and Jolie wed.

The château and its award-winning wine from the property’s vineyards have since turn into a significant supply of rivalry within the former couple’s ongoing divorce battle.

After Jolie bought her stake within the enterprise final yr to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, Pitt sued her in February, claiming she unlawfully disregarded their settlement by no means to promote their shares with out the opposite’s permission.

In a submitting from Pitt’s authorized crew earlier this month, the actor claims Jolie “sought to inflict hurt on” him by forcing him to associate with “a stranger with toxic associations and intentions” who plans to launch a “hostile” takeover of the enterprise.

Jolie hasn’t commented on Pitt’s allegations or his hunt for pretend treasure.