Nearly five years after Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt split, the Maleficent star has moved onto the “sell your ex’s stuff” stage of the breakup.
On Monday (Mar. 1), Angie, 45, auctioned off a painting that Brad, 57, gifted her in 2011. The artwork – “Tower of Koutoubia Mosque,” a Moroccan landscape painted by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and gifted to U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt – was sold for a record-breaking £8.3 million ($11.5 million with fees) at Christie’s “Modern British Art Evening Sale” auction in London.
It’s the most anyone has paid for a painting by Churchill. The new owner is anonymous, with the auctioneer referring to them as “being from Belgium,” according to The Art Newspaper.
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