Brad Pitt's wine brand, produced on his Château Miraval estate in the South of France, is reportedly being sold in Russia while the actor remains locked in a lawsuit over a billionaire from the country having a stake in the business. The Oscar winner bought a controlling stake in the Correns estate with his then-wife Angelina Jolie in 2008. Château Miraval is where they wed and vacationed with their family. Following their split, Jolie sold her 50 percent share in the winery to the company Tenute del Mondo, a subsidiary...

I was 25 years old, in the highrise office of City News Service, a local newswire out of Hollywood, and thoroughly unqualified for this job opening: covering courtrooms in downtown Los Angeles. My resume noted that I was a law school dropout, with 16 months experience writing about high school football in the small agricultural community of Santa Maria. A small handful of Americans still think of him primarily as a football player – or in San Francisco as a classmate or neighbor. But I’ll also remember him for changing...

Pitt sold the property in a $39 million off-market deal. He plans to move north to Carmel, California, TMZ reported. Pitt bought the three-story Craftsman, built in 1910, in 1994 for $1.7 million from Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira. He expanded the property into a full-blown two-acre compound over the years, scooping up four neighboring properties, according to Dirt. Pitt turned one of the adjacent buildings into a tastefully modern studio/residence in 1998 in collaboration with Berlin design firm Graft. "The formal language of the studio translates the haptic material quality...