Celebrity Brad & Jen's House Sells for $22.5 Million An anonymous foreign businessman buys the ex-couple's Beverly Hills mansion By People Staff Published on March 29, 2006 02:00 PM Share Tweet Pin Email A reminder of the good times shared by Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston – their lavish Beverly Hills mansion – is changing hands. About a year after Aniston filed for divorce, an anonymous foreign businessman is said to have paid $22.5 million for the 12,000-sq.-ft. French Normandy-style house. Weeks earlier the ex-couple had agreed to lower the price after the home languished on the market for several months at $28 million. The sale suggests the end of an era: When Aniston, 37, and Pitt, 42, bought the house for $13.5 million in 2001, they were Hollywood s reigning royal couple. They spent two years and a reported $10 to $15 million renovating their castle. After they were done, the home, originally designed by famed architect Wallace Neff for the actor Fredric March, boasted a professional screening room, a spa, an art studio – and a room they had designated as the nursery. ( It s time. It s time, Pitt told PEOPLE in 2004 when asked about the couple s baby plans.) Aniston later admitted that she never cared for Pitt s modern – and somewhat uncomfortable – design style. When asked what she liked about being on her own, Aniston quipped to Vanity Fair last year, “I can have a comfortable couch.” Good thing she held on to the little cottage she bought in 1995. “It’s teeny-teeny tiny,” she told Vogue in 2002. “But it’s my favorite place in the world.”