Brad Pitt's $40 Million L.A. Compound: Source 

A Los Angeles home that Brad Pitt has owned for almost 30 years is up for sale.

According to a real estate source who spoke to PEOPLE, the 59-year-old Babylon star quietly listed the large home ,

in the Los Feliz neighborhood for around $40 million.After purchasing the original mansion from Elvira,

Mistress of the Dark actress Cassandra Peterson for an alleged $1.7 million in 1994, 

Pitt began residing there. Since then, the Oscar winner has added a tennis court, skating rink, 

and swimming pool to several lots close to the original house.The source claims that Pitt is selling ,

the 1.9-acre estate because he is "looking for something smaller" in the Los Angeles region.

Before splitting in 2016, he and ex-wife Angelina Jolie, 47, raised their six children—Maddox, 21,  

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