Angelina Jolie sold the DeMille Estate at 2000 De Mille Drive, in the gated Laughlin Park enclave of Los Feliz, for $24.75 million, as first reported by Mansion Global and confirmed from the multiple listing service by The Wall Street Journal on September 24, 2026. Ernie Carswell of Sotheby’s International Realty, Beverly Hills Brokerage and Jon Grauman of Resident Group held the listing.
The 2.1-acre compound is organized around a Beaux-Arts main residence of roughly 11,000 square feet with six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, designed in 1913 by architect B. Cooper Corbett, with a guesthouse, pool and poolhouse, tea house, separate garage and security station completing the grounds. Jolie brought the estate to market on May 4, 2026 at $29.85 million, in a listing that omitted her name and carried no interior photographs. It closed 17.1 percent below that ask, at roughly $2,250 per square foot of the main house. The buyer’s identity and any buyer-side representation were not disclosed.
Jolie paid $24.5 million for the property in June 2017, less than a year after filing for divorce from Brad Pitt, buying from novelist Richard Grossman and art consultant Lisa Lyons, who had held it since a 1990 purchase at $1.5 million and completed a six-year renovation of the house, grounds and pool, at what Robb Report records as a then-record price for a single-family home in the neighborhood. That listing was held by Brett Lawyer, Branden Williams and Rayni Williams of Hilton & Hyland, and went into contract within three weeks of its March 2017 debut at $24.95 million.
The deeper provenance belongs to Cecil B. DeMille, who bought the house in 1916 for $27,893, in 1920 joined it by a glass corridor to the neighboring residence once occupied by Charlie Chaplin, and lived there until his death in 1959. The Journal set the sale against a Los Angeles luxury market still absorbing the city’s mansion tax, the 2025 wildfires and a proposed state wealth tax on billionaires; the median sale price in Los Feliz was $2.17 million in the second quarter, flat year over year, according to Sotheby’s International Realty data.
Nine years on, the estate returned almost exactly what Jolie paid for it. A century of Hollywood provenance held its value. It did not add to it.
The full ownership lineage, from Corbett’s 1913 design to the 2026 closing, is kept at The DeMille Estate record.