Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly move to New Orleans, Louisiana

[Laurent]

Jolie, Pitt move to New Orleans, report says

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Globe-trotting Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have moved to New Orleans and plan to send their three children to school there, Us Weekly magazine reported on Tuesday.

"We love it there," Jolie was quoted as saying in confirming the move at the Golden Globe awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday night. "The kids are going to go to school there. We're really looking forward to it."

Representatives for Pitt, 43, and Jolie, 31, could not immediately be reached for comment.

But according to the story posted on the magazine's Web site, the couple's relocation to the flood-ravaged Louisiana city is at least partly in keeping with their off-screen devotion to various humanitarian causes around the world. They spent Christmas Day handing out presents to Colombian war refugees in Costa Rica.

According to Us Weekly, the movie star pair moved to the Big Easy on January 11 and have purchased a $3.5 million, six-bed mansion in the city's French Quarter -- the fourth house owned by the couple.

One diner at a Decatur Street restaurant told the magazine he saw Jolie quietly mixing with the locals the day after she and Pitt moved to town.

Us Weekly cites unnamed sources as saying Jolie plans on keeping a low profile in her newly adopted home town, where Pitt is currently on location shooting his latest film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

"She's interested in befriending normal moms so she can do things with the kids," one source told the magazine, adding that the couple also hopes to raise awareness for the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast region.

"They think it is important to be there right now" and are already looking to get more involved in local charity work, the source said. According to Us Weekly, construction is set to start this month on 20 environment-friendly homes Pitt has jointly commissioned with the group Global Green USA.

Pitt, currently starring in the globe-spanning drama "Babel," and Jolie, an Oscar winner for her role in "Girl, Interrupted," co-starred as married assassins hired to kill each other in the film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." According to Jolie, they began a romantic relationship after Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston broke up in early 2005.

Jolie has said they have no plans to marry but are committed to raising their three children together.

Jolie adopted 5-year-old son Maddox from Cambodia in 2002 and 2-year-old daughter, Zahara, from Ethiopia, in 2005. She gave birth last year in Namibia to her first biological child, a daughter fathered by Pitt they named Shiloh. Pitt has also become the adoptive father of Maddox and Zahara.

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[Zee]

Wow. I love New Orleans and we used to go many times a year prechildren. Took the kids there once and realized that it is a cesspool for little kids.

Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

[Laurent]

Something tells me Brad and Angelina won't be living in the 9th Ward. Probably somewhere swank like St. Charles Avenue instead.

[january]

Somehow I can't imagine her wanting to be friends with other "normal" moms. She doesn't seem to have any female friends at all, at least those that she doesn't sleep with. I can't see her being friends with females, I know that seems strange.

[Picara]

I love New Orleans. I lived there until I was six and have been back many times. There are a lot Voodoo shops. Angie should feel quite at home.

[sweetness]

I think it's pretty cool, but can't see it lasting for very long.

Hopefully some southern grannies will get ahold of Angelina while she's down there and put some meat on those bones!

[Mira]

This will last 3-4 weeks like the rest of their "moves" do.

[ediebrooks]

They wear me out with all their globe-trotting. I can't see Angelina befriending women either, unless she was interested in getting closer to their husbands.

[pacific breeze]

Oh, I think Angie is a switch hitter. If the wives are cute, she'll be all over them, too.

[ediebrooks]

Well, at least she keeps her options open. Quite the humanitarian.

[DitaPage*]

I'm surprised Brad would want to move out of LA.

[Mira]

It has something to do with being involved with the architectural plans of rebuilding the city. Plus helping orphans, I think. (Not sure.)

[PrettyGirl]

I love Los Angeles but then again, I'm not famous. It's big, crazy, populous, dirty and the real estate is ridiculous but it's still cool. I imagine that if you're a celebrity you live there because you have to, the work is there. But the times during the year that you can leave L.A. you do it.

New Orleans is a great city. I think it's a great choice. I'd live there in a hot second.

[olivia720]

hope they have good flood insurance.

this seems like an odd choice for them.

[UndercoverGator]

Gaaaaaaakk~ So they have to go and ruin my hometown.

I'll have to call my great uncle Hypolite what done lives atween Magazine St and St Charles and see what the local scuttling butt says. Good luck Ang/Brad parsing the local accents and syntax (see above sentence)

Ahhh, the French Quarter, screaming drag queens at 2 am, the wafting scent of vaguely sour booze all the time, the dirt, the puke in the gutters, the Desire project boys ready to lift a wallet or two off any unsuspecting tourists, the mosquitos the size of Boeing jets, flooding everytime it rains, blue laws, the three seasons of hot, very hot and old mah gawd my ass is meltin' hot. I could go on and on with reasons not to live in my home town so I'm curious to see how rapidly they decamp after running into a few of these reasons. Plus before Katrina the public school system sucked so badly only the most poor sent their kids to public school, everyone else vied for slots in the local Catholic and private schools. No way in hell is any Catholic school going to allow the offspring of two shackees to attend.

The comic possibilities of this could be endless..