Brad Pitt Biography 2026: The $400M Hollywood Journey

Last updated: November 12, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Brad Pitt is 62 years old in 2026, and his biography reads like two careers in one. Born William Bradley Pitt on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, he arrived in Los Angeles in the late 1980s with $325 in his pocket and left college weeks before graduation. Fourteen minutes of screen time in Thelma & Louise (1991) made him famous. Thirty-five years later he is still setting career highs: a $30 million upfront fee for F1 (2025), a film that grossed $631.7 million worldwide and won the Best Sound Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards in March 2026, and a reported $40 million from Netflix to play Cliff Booth again in a film due in late 2026.

The fortune sits at an estimated $400 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth in its August 11, 2026 update, a figure Parade repeats in its 2026 profile. It is built on three things: three decades of acting fees that climbed from a reported $6,000 to $40 million a film, a production company he co-founded in 2001 that has produced three Best Picture winners, and a 2022 deal that sold a majority stake in that company at a valuation above $300 million. The personal story runs alongside it: two marriages, six children, a divorce that took eight years to finalise, and a relationship since 2022 with jewellery designer Ines de Ramon.

What follows is the full life and career: the Missouri childhood, the $325 gamble, the breakthrough, the serious-actor years, the Ocean’s paydays, Plan B, the Oscars, the blockbusters, the 2025–26 comeback, and the money — with every figure tied to a named source and a date, and every disagreement between sources named rather than hidden.

How Much Is Brad Pitt Worth in 2026?

Brad Pitt’s net worth in 2026 is an estimated $400 million. Celebrity Net Worth lists the figure in its update of August 11, 2026, and Parade prints the same number in its 2026 profile. It is a high nine-figure actor-producer fortune, built over 35 years, and it still sits below the richest men in his own peer group: Celebrity Net Worth estimated Tom Cruise at about $600 million in April 2026, and George Clooney at about $500 million. The full breakdown of Brad Pitt’s net worth is covered on this site — this biography tells the life behind the number.

The $400 million is best read as what remains after three decades of earning, spending and tax. The reported film salaries alone run to roughly $270 million in gross pay across his career, according to Celebrity Net Worth’s own list — but that list is a partial tally of selected paydays, and gross pay is not a bank balance. The fees were taxed, the agents and managers took their share, and the money went into houses, a production company, a French winery and a long legal fight. The Plan B sale in December 2022 is the structural reason the figure sits at $400 million rather than lower: a majority stake in a company Variety said was valued at over $300 million, sold to France’s Mediawan, turned a producer’s library into cash and shares at a stroke.

Forbes gives a useful cross-check on the recent earning power, if not the total. The magazine reported that Pitt earned around $41 million in 2025 alone, and back in 2022 it placed him among the world’s 10 highest-paid entertainers with an estimated $100 million year — $30 million of it from just three films, Babylon, Bullet Train and The Lost City. The 2025 figure is the sharper one: it covers the F1 payday and the start of the Netflix sequel money. A man earning $41 million in a year, at 61, is not coasting on old fame. The $400 million is a working fortune, still growing.

Early Life: William Bradley Pitt in Springfield, Missouri

William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company, and Jane Etta Hillhouse, a school counsellor. He was the eldest of three children — younger brother Douglas and younger sister Julie followed — and the family moved while he was still small to Springfield, Missouri, where he grew up in a close-knit Southern Baptist household. The Oklahoma birthplace is a footnote in most profiles; Springfield is the place that shaped him. It was a mid-sized Midwestern city, a long way from a film set, and Pitt has described the upbringing as conservative and sheltered, the kind of childhood that makes Hollywood look like another planet.

At Kickapoo High School in Springfield he was good at sports and, by most accounts, popular — the yearbook type, not the drama-club type. Acting came later. He enrolled at the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising, and spent four years there learning how to sell things. The degree was almost finished when he made the decision that defines the whole biography: weeks before graduation, he left. He drove to Los Angeles with $325 in his pocket, according to the account retold in several profiles, to try acting. He had no contacts, no agent and no plan beyond the drive. The journalism degree went unfinished. The advertising training, it turned out, was not wasted — he spent the next three decades selling himself, first as a face and then as a brand.

Los Angeles in the late 1980s was not kind to a 23-year-old with no credits. Pitt took acting lessons from Roy London, a respected coach, and worked the jobs actors work while they wait: he drove a limousine, delivered refrigerators, and dressed in a chicken suit to hand out flyers for a restaurant. The television debut came in May 1987, a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World, followed by a recurring role as Randy on the prime-time soap Dallas. Small parts in small films followed, and a television movie, Too Young to Die? in 1990, where he met Juliette Lewis, his first well-known romance.

Nothing about those years suggested a $400 million future. The work was sporadic and the pay was small, and the industry’s interest in him was, at first, entirely about his face. Casting directors saw a handsome young man and gave him handsome-young-man parts. The trap was obvious even then: a career built on looks ends when the looks fade, and Pitt was 27 before anyone gave him a part that asked for more. The breakthrough, when it came, was 14 minutes long, and it nearly typecast him for good. The Missouri years matter to the money story in one specific way: Pitt arrived in Hollywood with nothing, and everything he owns was earned after that drive. There was no family money, no inheritance, no early trust fund. The $400 million is a self-made figure in the literal sense, and the distance between $325 and $400 million is the whole arc of the career.

Thelma & Louise: Fourteen Minutes That Changed Everything

In 1991 Ridley Scott cast Pitt as J.D., a hitchhiking drifter, in Thelma & Louise. The role lasted about 14 minutes of screen time. It made him famous overnight. The scene in the convertible, the cowboy hat, the white T-shirt — the images became the shorthand for male beauty in the early 1990s, and women in cinemas across the world, as one retrospective put it, collectively held their breath. The fee, according to Celebrity Net Worth, was a reported $6,000. It is the smallest number in this article, and the most useful: it is the starting point of the salary ladder that ends at $40 million.

The fame was instant and double-edged. Pitt was suddenly the most photographed young actor in America, and the offers that followed were variations on the same thing: the handsome drifter, the pretty boyfriend, the face. He fought the typecasting deliberately, taking smaller, stranger parts — a serial killer’s apprentice in Kalifornia (1993), a stoned roommate in True Romance (1993) — and a leading-man turn in A River Runs Through It (1992) that showed he could carry a serious film. The strategy was slow and it worked: by 1994 he was playing Louis in Interview with the Vampire opposite Tom Cruise, and by 1995 he had the two films that made him a serious actor.

Se7en, 12 Monkeys and Fight Club: The Serious Actor

1995 was the year Pitt stopped being a face and became an actor. In David Fincher’s Se7en he played Detective David Mills, a young cop hunting a killer who murders by the seven deadly sins, opposite Morgan Freeman. The fee was about $4 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth — a 600-fold jump from the $6,000 of Thelma & Louise four years earlier, and the first sign of the salary curve that would define his earning life. The same year, Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys gave him Jeffrey Goines, a frenetic mental patient, and the performance won him the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and his first Oscar nomination. Two films, one year, two completely different men: the clean-cut detective and the wild-eyed inmate. The range was the point, and the industry noticed.

The physical facts helped and hurt in equal measure. Pitt stands 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), a leading man’s height without being a giant’s, and the frame — lean, athletic, famously sculpted for Fight Club — became part of the brand. The full picture of Brad Pitt’s height and build is covered on this site. But the physique was also a cage: for years, the conversation about Pitt was about how he looked, not how he acted, and the serious roles were the ones that broke the cage open. Seven Years in Tibet (1997), playing the mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, was a commercial disappointment that cost him politically — China banned him from entering the country for years — and proved he would take a difficult film over a safe one.

Fight Club (1999), his second film with Fincher, is the one that has grown in reputation the most. Pitt played Tyler Durden, the soap salesman who starts an underground fighting ring, opposite Edward Norton. The film flopped on release and became a cult object on video, and the Tyler Durden look — shaved head, red leather jacket, the carved physique — became one of the most imitated images in cinema. His fee by the late 1990s had reached roughly $17.5 million a film, according to Celebrity Net Worth, and the quote kept climbing. The heartthrob was gone. What remained was a movie star who chose directors like Fincher and Gilliam and Ridley Scott, and who was paid like one.

Ocean’s Eleven and the Million Club

The 2000s turned the critical respect into cash. Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Steven Soderbergh’s remake with George Clooney, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts, gave Pitt the role of Rusty Ryan, the con man who eats in every scene, and the film became a franchise: Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007) followed. The reported deal was $10 million upfront, and with backend participation the total reached about $30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. It was the first time Pitt’s pay looked like a business rather than a salary — a share of the profits, not just a fee — and it set the pattern for the rest of his career: upfront plus backend, acting plus producing, the fee plus a piece of the film itself.

The salary ladder from those years is the clearest record of how a movie star’s money grows. The table below uses the figures Celebrity Net Worth lists for his named paydays. The numbers are gross pay before tax, fees and commissions, and they are not a bank balance — but the shape of the ladder is the story: $6,000 to $4 million in four years, $4 million to $17.5 million in four more, and then two decades at the top of the scale.

The table hides the most important fact about the money: the fees were never the whole income. From 2001 onward Pitt was also a producer, and the producing money — fees, backend, and eventually a company sale — ran alongside the acting money. A reader who adds up the salary column and calls the total his fortune is double-counting: the salaries were taxed, spent and invested, and the $400 million is what is left. The ladder shows the earning power. The next section shows where the rest of the money came from.

Plan B Entertainment: The Quiet Wealth Engine

In 2001 Pitt co-founded Plan B Entertainment with his then-wife Jennifer Aniston and veteran executive Brad Grey. The idea was simple: instead of waiting for good scripts to arrive, produce them. The company became the second career, and in financial terms the more important one. Plan B produced three Best Picture winners — The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Moonlight (2016) — a record no other actor-run company of the era matched. The producing credits also changed how Pitt was paid: as a producer he took fees and backend on films he did not star in, which meant the money kept coming in years when he was not on a set.

The sale came in December 2022. Pitt and his partners sold a 60% majority stake in Plan B to Mediawan, the French media group, in a deal that Variety reported valued the company at over $300 million. One outlet estimated Pitt’s share of the proceeds at around $113 million; that figure is an estimate, not a confirmed payment, and this article reports it as one. What is confirmed is the structure: Pitt kept a minority stake and became a Mediawan shareholder, so the company he built still pays him, in dividends and in value, after the sale. It is the classic move of a star who understands that owning the machine beats renting yourself to it.

The Plan B catalogue explains why the company was worth that much. Beyond the three Best Picture winners, the slate included The Tree of Life (2011), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and Minari (2020) — prestige films that won awards, held their value, and kept the company’s name on the credits of the films that defined American cinema in the 2010s. A library like that is an asset, and Mediawan bought it for the same reason a studio buys a catalogue: the films keep earning. Pitt’s fortune is, in large part, the value of good taste, compounded over twenty years.

Moneyball, 12 Years a Slave and the Oscar for Producing

The 2010s gave Pitt the two Oscar nominations that had eluded him as an actor, and the one win that came as a producer. In Moneyball (2011) he played Billy Beane, the Oakland Athletics general manager who rebuilt a baseball team on statistics, and the performance earned him a Best Actor nomination — his second, after The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He was also a producer on Moneyball, through Plan B, which meant the film paid him twice: once for acting, once for producing. The pattern repeated across the decade. He produced and starred in World War Z (2013). He produced 12 Years a Slave (2013) and, when it won Best Picture at the 2014 Academy Awards, he collected the Oscar as one of its producers. The acting Oscar would take six more years. The producing Oscar arrived first.

The Big Short (2015), which Plan B produced and in which Pitt played the investor Ben Rickert, was nominated for Best Picture. Moonlight (2016), another Plan B film, won it. By the end of the decade Pitt had been part of three Best Picture winners as a producer and had two Best Actor nominations as an actor, and the industry’s view of him had shifted completely: he was no longer the handsome star who sometimes acted well. He was a producer with a library, an actor with a range, and a businessman whose company was the most respected independent outfit in Hollywood. The $400 million figure, when it settled in the 2020s, was the market’s recognition of all three at once.

Troy to World War Z: The Blockbuster Years

Between the prestige films, Pitt kept making the big commercial movies that paid the biggest fees. Troy (2004), playing Achilles, established him as an action star and grossed nearly $500 million worldwide. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), the film where he met Angelina Jolie, grossed $478 million and put him in the $20 million fee class for good. World War Z (2013), a zombie epic he produced and starred in, grossed $540 million worldwide and stood as his highest-grossing film as a lead for twelve years — until F1 passed it in August 2025.

The blockbusters did more than pay fees. They kept his name on marquees in years when the prestige films were small, and they kept the global box office total climbing: his films have now grossed more than $7 billion worldwide, according to Wealthy Gorilla’s tally of $7.87 billion. Gross is not net — the studios, the distributors and the tax authorities take their shares before the actor sees his — but the scale explains the leverage. A star whose films gross $7 billion can ask for $30 million a film and get it, because the studios know the name sells tickets. The fees were the reward for the grosses, and the grosses were the reason the fees kept rising.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Acting Oscar

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) gave Pitt the role that won him the acting Oscar: Cliff Booth, a stuntman and loyal friend to Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading television star Rick Dalton, drifting through 1969 Los Angeles. The performance was relaxed, funny and quietly dangerous, and it swept the awards season: the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in February 2020, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. It was his first acting Oscar, after two Best Actor nominations and one producing win, and it arrived at 56 — proof that the career had a third act. DiCaprio, his co-star, is a peer in every sense: a fellow 1990s heartthrob who became a serious actor and producer, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s net worth is covered on this site for the comparison.

The film also set up the 2026 payday. Netflix is releasing The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel built around Pitt’s character and directed by David Fincher, in late 2026, and Celebrity Net Worth lists Pitt’s fee at $40 million — a career high, and the number that pushes the salary ladder past the F1 fee. A sequel to a 2019 film, built on a supporting character, paying $40 million, is a measure of how much the industry values Pitt at 62: not as a nostalgia act, but as a star whose name still opens a film.

F1: The Million Check and the 1 Million Hit

F1, Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One drama, opened on June 27, 2025, with Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a veteran driver dragged back to the sport by an old teammate. The bidding war for the film had started in December 2021, when eight studios and streamers chased a movie with no title and no script, and Apple won it. Pitt’s upfront fee was $30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth and Variety — at the time, the highest single-film payday of his career. The film opened to $146.3 million worldwide, with a $57 million domestic opening weekend, and kept going: by early August 2025 it had passed $540 million, overtaking World War Z as the highest-grossing Brad Pitt film in history, and it finished at $631.7 million worldwide, the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2025.

The film was Apple’s first genuine box-office hit, and it won the Best Sound Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, 2026, from four nominations that included Best Picture. The commercial success had a consequence beyond Pitt’s own career: Apple followed it by acquiring the US broadcast rights to Formula One from Liberty Media for approximately $750 million across five years beginning in 2026. Pitt also carried a producer credit through Plan B, alongside Jerry Bruckheimer, which gave him backend participation on top of the $30 million — industry analysts estimated the producing share could add $15–25 million to his take from the film, though that figure is an estimate, not a confirmed payment. Tom Cruise, who attended the film’s London premiere in June 2025 and is himself a $600 million star, is the obvious peer: Tom Cruise’s net worth is covered on this site, and the two men have been the twin poles of Hollywood leading-man stardom for thirty years.

The $30 million fee deserves a note of caution. It was a career high at the time, and it was broken within months — first by the $35 million Apple paid him for Wolfs (2024), the thriller co-starring George Clooney, and then by the $40 million Netflix fee for the Cliff Booth sequel. The ladder in the table above is a snapshot, not a ceiling. At 62, Pitt is earning more per film than at any point in his career, and the reason is simple: the streamers are paying for proven stars, and he is one of the few left who can open a film worldwide.

Heart of the Beast and the Cliff Booth Sequel: 2026

2026 has been the busiest year of Pitt’s career in a decade, and it started with a dog. Heart of the Beast, David Ayer’s survival thriller, was released in the United States on September 25, 2026, after a premiere at the FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee, on September 16. Pitt plays James Belmont, a retired Special Forces officer stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog, Odin, after their seaplane goes down. The film was shot in Queenstown and Glenorchy on New Zealand’s South Island between March 3 and May 15, 2025 — the Southern Alps standing in for Alaska, a substitution the director said was impossible to tell apart — and the dog was played by Uber, a former search-and-rescue German Shepherd, with three of his sons as stand-ins. J.K. Simmons and Anna Lambe co-star, and the film was produced by Plan B with Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton. Pitt has said the hardest part of the shoot was acting opposite a dog: he kept boiled chicken in his pockets to hold Uber’s attention between takes.

The Ayer reunion matters — the two worked together on Fury in 2014 — and so does the timing. Heart of the Beast arrived in the same year as the F1 Oscar win and the Cliff Booth sequel, which means Pitt has had three major releases in eighteen months at an age when most stars slow down. The Cliff Booth film, directed by David Fincher for Netflix and due in late 2026, is the bigger commercial bet: a $40 million fee, a proven character, and a director Pitt has made two of his best films with. If it lands, the $400 million figure will move. The 2026 story is not a farewell tour. It is a second peak.

Personal Life: Aniston, Jolie, Six Children and Ines de Ramon

Pitt has been married twice, and both marriages were among the most covered relationships of their eras. He married Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000, in a private ceremony in Malibu, after meeting her in 1998. The marriage ended in January 2005, and the divorce was finalised in October of that year. On the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith he met Angelina Jolie, and the relationship that followed — twelve years together, six children, two years of marriage — dominated the tabloids for a decade. They married on August 23, 2014. Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016, they were declared legally single in 2019, and the divorce was not finalised until December 2024, after more than eight years of legal proceedings. Pitt, asked by GQ in May 2025 whether the ending had brought relief, said: “No, I don’t think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Legally.”

The six children are Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17, as of 2026 — three adopted and three biological. The reporting on the family is careful here for a reason: several of the children have become estranged from Pitt since the split, and the custody dispute was part of the eight-year legal fight. This article does not speculate about private family matters beyond what the reporting confirms. What is confirmed is the shape of the family and the length of the fight, and both belong in the biography, because they are the reason the divorce took eight years and the reason the Miraval case is still running.

Since November 2022 Pitt has been in a relationship with Ines de Ramon, a 33-year-old jewellery designer who was previously married to The Vampire Diaries actor Paul Wesley. The couple were first linked at a Bono concert in November 2022, made their first public appearance together at the 2024 British Grand Prix, and, according to People, she moved into his home in early 2024. In June 2026 Page Six reported, citing a source close to the couple, that Pitt has no plans to marry again despite de Ramon’s closeness with his family. The relationship is deliberately private — Pitt has no public Instagram, and the couple rarely appear together — and the reporting respects that. At 62, the personal life is quieter than the career. The films are loud. The life is not.

Château Miraval and the Money Still in Court

The largest unresolved item in Pitt’s finances is a French winery. Around 2008, Pitt and Jolie bought Château Miraval, a sprawling estate in Provence, for about $28 million, and built it into a successful rosé wine business. When Jolie sold her stake in 2021 to Tenute del Mondo, part of the Stoli Group, Pitt sued in February 2022, alleging breach of contract. The case has run ever since, and in November 2025 reporting said Pitt had sued Jolie for $35 million over the sale. The trial is scheduled to begin on February 1, 2027, according to Parade’s 2026 profile.

The Miraval fight matters to the net-worth figure in two ways. First, a large portion of Pitt’s reported fortune is tied up in the estate, and its value cannot be fixed while the ownership is disputed — the $400 million estimate counts it, but the count is uncertain. Second, the legal costs are real and ongoing: eight years of divorce proceedings and four years of Miraval litigation are expensive, and the bills come out of the same fortune. The $400 million is an estimate of what he owns, not what he can spend tomorrow, and Miraval is the reason the two numbers differ. The trial in February 2027 is the next date that matters, and this article will be the one to watch for the outcome.

Real Estate and the Way He Lives

Pitt’s property history is a record of buying well and selling when the moment is right. The best-known sale came in March 2023, when he sold his Los Feliz estate — a compound he had assembled over years in the Los Angeles neighbourhood — for about $39 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The sale converted a famous house into cash in the year after the Mediawan deal, and the timing looks deliberate: a property sold, a company sold, and the fortune consolidated at $400 million.

The rest of the portfolio is private, and this article does not estimate values it cannot source. What is public is the pattern: Pitt has owned homes in Los Angeles and in France, and the French property is the one that matters most, because it is also a business. The lifestyle around the houses is quieter than the career suggests. He is known for long working days, for architecture — he co-founded the Make It Right Foundation after Hurricane Katrina, building affordable homes in New Orleans — and for a private life that stays private. The $39 million Los Feliz sale is the detail that makes the fortune visible. The house was not an investment. It was a home, and the fortune paid for it the way a fortune pays for a home.

How He Compares: Hollywood’s Richest Leading Men

Brad Pitt’s $400 million is a large fortune, and it is not the largest among his peers. The table below puts him next to the leading men of his generation, using Celebrity Net Worth’s 2026 figures, so the comparison is drawn from a single set of sources. The gap at the top is the story: the richest actors are the ones who own something — a franchise, a company, a brand — and not just the ones who were paid the most per film.

The comparison with Clooney is the instructive one. Clooney sits $100 million above Pitt on the same tracker, and the gap is the Casamigos sale: Clooney sold his tequila company to Diageo in 2017 for up to $1 billion, a single exit that dwarfed any acting fee. Pitt’s Mediawan deal was the same kind of move — sell the company you built — at a smaller scale: over $300 million for the company, not $1 billion. The comparison with DiCaprio runs the other way: DiCaprio, at $300 million, built his fortune on acting fees and producing, without a company sale, and the $100 million gap is roughly the value of the Plan B deal. The fortune is not a ranking. It is a record of how the money was made, and the table shows the record: the men who sold companies are richer than the men who only acted.

What Is Next for Brad Pitt?

The Cliff Booth sequel, due on Netflix in late 2026, is the next release, and the $40 million fee is already banked in the reporting. After that, nothing has been announced: no new film has been dated, no new Plan B slate has been named, and no sequel to F1 has been confirmed, though the film’s $631.7 million gross and Apple’s $750 million Formula One rights deal make one plausible. The Miraval trial, scheduled for February 1, 2027, is the next fixed date on the calendar, and its outcome will settle the largest open question in the fortune.

The fortune gives him the freedom to choose slowly. At $400 million, with a catalogue that pays every year, a production company that still pays him after its sale, and fees that are higher at 62 than at any point in his career, he does not need to work to eat. F1 was a choice, Heart of the Beast was a choice, and the Cliff Booth sequel was a choice. The most likely next chapter is the one the reporting already hints at: more films with the directors he trusts — Fincher, Tarantino, Ayer — more Plan B producing, and a slower pace, at 62, with the money already made and the career already secure.

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Sources & Reporting

This article was researched on 12 November 2026 from live reporting and dated listings: Celebrity Net Worth for the $400 million net-worth figure in its August 11, 2026 update, the film-salary list ($6,000 for Thelma & Louise, ~$4 million for Se7en, ~$17.5 million late-1990s rate, $10 million plus backend for Ocean’s Eleven, $30 million for F1, $35 million for Wolfs, $40 million for The Adventures of Cliff Booth) and the Los Feliz $39 million sale; Parade for the $400 million figure in its 2026 profile and the Château Miraval trial date of February 1, 2027; Forbes for the ~$41 million 2025 earnings figure and the 2022 $100 million year, and for the March 2026 celebrity-billionaire list that does not include Pitt; Variety, via Celebrity Net Worth and The Richest, for the $30 million F1 fee and the ~$300 million production budget, and for the Mediawan deal valuing Plan B at over $300 million; the Financial Times, via nextmagazine.co.uk, for the Mediawan valuation; IMDb and Simple Wikipedia for the birth date and place, height, spouses and filmography; BookMyShow and prime.sg for the early-life and career-retrospective detail, including the $325 drive to Los Angeles; themovieswiki.com and biographiestart.com for the 2026 competitor biographies; inbella.com and sociallifemagazine.com for the F1 $631.7 million gross and the 98th Academy Awards result (four nominations, Best Sound win, March 15, 2026); wealthygarage.com and keyjournal.co.uk for the Cliff Booth late-2026 release and $40 million fee; 4filming.com (October 1, 2026), comicbasics.com, AMFM Magazine (September 2026) and Zoom TV (September 2026) for the Heart of the Beast release date, filming dates and locations, cast and dog; Hello Magazine (August 24, 2026), Parade (June 25, 2026) and The Richest (June 26, 2026) for the Ines de Ramon relationship, the children’s 2026 ages and the December 2024 divorce finalisation; and GQ (May 2025) for Pitt’s own words on the divorce ending. Where sources disagreed — above all the stale $240 million net-worth figures versus the current $400 million — the article names the disagreement and dates each figure. Where the public record is silent — the exact terms of his private deals, his remaining Plan B stake, his tax bills, the value of Château Miraval — the article says so. Corrections are welcome via the About page.