Cleaning house. Angelina Jolie sold a rare Winston Churchill painting that she got from her ex-husband Brad Pitt, CNN reports.“Tower of Koutoubia Mosque” became the most expensive work of art by the late British prime minister to sell at an auction, fetching $11.5 million after fees on Monday, March 1, despite its much lower estimated worth of $3.5 million.
Churchill’s record was previously held by “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell,” which sold for $2.75 million in 2014.The conservative politician, who died at age 90 in 1965, painted “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” in 1943.
After attending the Casablanca Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, with Franklin D. Roosevelt to strategize against Nazi Germany during World War II, Churchill gave it to
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