Is Angelina Jolie quitting America? Private struggles emerge... as actress weighs major lifestyle that threatens to rupture her family

Angelina Jolie's recent sale of her longtime apartment in New York City has sparked some concern for her financial situation.

She sold the single residential condo, which she had owned since 1997, last summer for an undisclosed amount.

The news comes amid rumors of financial stress for the actress, 50, who is also said to be preparing to sell her $24.5million Los Angeles mansion, which she purchased in 2017.

Jolie handed over her property on Manhattan's Upper West Side on July 18, 2025, according to the deed obtained by the Daily Mail - although the sale wasn't recorded until August 4.

She was listed as the seller while Ansoniasix, LLC was listed as the buyer. The home is part of The Ansonia condo building (formerly the Ansonia Hotel) on Broadway.

While the deed did not list the price, real estate sites estimate it was worth around $1.8 million. Jolie purchased the property for $490,000 in December 1997, taking out out a $343,000 mortgage. 

In 2022, the property underwent an interior renovation, valued at $35,200.

In a March 2025 interview, Jolie revealed that one of her sons, believed to be Maddox, now 24, was living in the apartment, using it as a 'crash pad'.

Jolie shares Maddox with ex-husband Brad Pitt. They also have Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, and 17-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

Over on the West Coast, her six-bedroom, 10-bathroom home in LA is a historic property known as the Cecil B DeMille estate - named after the famed director who lived there for 40 years. Pitt loaned Jolie $8 million to buy the property, according to legal filings.

Jolie has talked openly about wanting to leave California, previously telling the Hollywood Reporter that she was only living there because it was one of the conditions of her divorce settlement from Pitt. She said she would wait until her children all turn 18 to relocate. Her twins will celebrate that milestone birthday in July.

As to where she will settle next, she told the publication she plans to 'spend a lot of time in Cambodia.'

In August last year, it was reported that Jolie was planning to sell her LA home, with a source telling People magazine that she was 'eyeing several locations abroad' with Cambodia, France and parts of Africa in the mix. 

'I'll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world,' the actress said. 

After adopting her eldest son, Maddox, from Cambodia in 2002, Jolie purchased a traditional wooden home in a rural part of the Asian country for an undisclosed amount. She then followed it up with another purchase of more than 148,000 surrounding acres to create a wildlife preserve.

But a source told the Daily Mail that the move away from the Golden State would involve sacrife - namely a split from some of her children who 'have settled into their own lives and are usually doing their own thing away from their mother.' 

'They have their groups of friends, school activities, hobbies that have taken years to get used to, especially after their parents' divorce,' the insider said. 'Knox, for one, is not leaving [LA] anytime soon. He's very involved in Muay Thai training and is practically a full-time fighter. He has no plans to leave and wants to become an instructor once he graduates.'

Meanwhile, Shiloh has become a choreographer based in LA, while Zahara is expected to graduate from Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia, this year.

Gossip columnist Rob Shuter claimed earlier this year that he has heard Jolie is 'struggling to keep her lifestyle in Los Angeles.'

'She's not broke, but she's not exactly swimming in cash either,' a source allegedly told him. 'The legal battle with Brad over Miraval [the wine estate the former couple shared in Provence, France] has drained her accounts faster than anyone imagined.'

Legal costs are said to have been 'astronomical.' A Hollywood attorney familiar with the case told Shuter that 'Every hearing, every lawyer, every filing - it's like throwing money into a bonfire. Even someone like Angelina feels it.'

Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016 after a heated encounter aboard a private jet bound for LA from France. She accused her actor husband of grabbing her by the head and choking one of their children, all of which he has denied.

The FBI conducted a review and closed their investigation with no charges against Pitt, and the Department of Child and Family Services also determined there was no finding of abuse.

What followed was a heated divorce battle that was only finalized on December 30, 2024. 

But the pair are still wrangling over Château Miraval, which has been at the center of a bitter legal dispute - dubbed 'the war of the rosés' - over their co-ownership of the $500 million French winery.

When they purchased Miraval in 2011, Pitt took a 60 percent stake in the winemaking enterprise and estate, while Jolie took 40 percent. But in 2013, the actor gifted his then-partner an extra 10 percent right before their wedding, equalizing their stakes.

Pitt poured millions into the estate, riding the rosé wave and expanding the business in an effort that saw sales grow 300 percent. Soon, the estate they purchased for an estimated $60 million was worth closer to $164 million.

In 2022, Pitt filed a $35 million lawsuit against Jolie, less than a year after she sold her 50 percent stake in the winery to Russian oligarch, Yuri Shefler for $67 million without Pitt's consent.

Pitt, who is now dating jewelry designer Ines de Ramon, accused Jolie of breaching their purchase agreement. 

According to Jolie's legal filings, an earlier offer to sell to Pitt for $54 million imploded due to his demands.

In a December 17 filing last year, obtained by the Daily Mail, the court granted Pitt's motion to compel compliance with prior responses from Jolie - essentially, forcing her to hand over a trove of emails and texts with her aides concerning the sale of her stake.

Pitt's legal team say Jolie is refusing to turn over nearly two dozen documents of communications. A source close to Pitt told the Daily Mail that the emails would prove Jolie had been 'disingenuous since the start' regarding the sale.

But Paul Murphy, Jolie's attorney, said: 'We're disappointed by the court's interpretation of California's privilege law. The court's ruling violates that law, undermines Ms Jolie's fundamental right to a fair trial, and represents yet another manifestation of Mr Pitt's years-long effort to harass and control her. We will appeal.'

Litigation could continue for another year, with a trial date set for February 2027. 

In other bad news, the former couple's non-profit, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, is not performing well financially, according to legal documents obtained by the Daily Mail. 

Their 2024 tax return showed that they brought in less money than they strived for, having negative $473,853 listed as the total for their revenue and expenses per books and negative $476,343 for their income-producing activities. However, all assets at the end of the year totaled $1,618,205.

Jolie and Pitt are still listed as board members as of April 2025, with Jolie being the CEO and Pitt being the secretary and CFO.

Jolie is also facing legal action over her NoHo boutique, Atelier Jolie, which also serves as an art center and eatery. She signed an eight-year lease on the Manhattan property in 2023 which was the former residence of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Behind the scenes, there has been an ongoing trademark battle over Atelier Jolie since July 2024 when art gallery Atelier Jolie Gallery in Allentown, Pennsylvania, filed an opposition to the actress's trademark.

The latest filing, as seen by the Daily Mail, was from December 2025 and states that the parties requested the proceedings be suspended for three months since both 'continue to be engaged in settlement discussions.' 

Representatives for Jolie have not responded to requests for comment.