Angelina Jolie doesn’t want to stay in LA any longer than she has to

In 2016, two years after they married, Jolie she filed for divorce from Pitt.

Since ending their relationship, the former couple have been embroiled in a messy legal battle, including one involving a winery they once owned in common.

In a 2022 filing, Jolie accused Pitt suffocating one of their children and hitting another during a flight in 2016.

“When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, security. Now I have a home to raise my children in, but sometimes this place can be… that humanity that I found everywhere in the world is not what I grew up with. with here,” Jolie said.

After leaving LA, Jolie says she plans to “spend a lot of time in Cambodia” and visit family members “wherever they are in the world.”

This is not the first time Jolie has mentioned her desire to be in Cambodia.

In December 2023, she told The Wall Street Journal that she has another home there.

“It’s part of what happened after my divorce. I lost the ability to live and travel as freely as possible. I’ll move when I can,” Jolie said.

If Jolie goes ahead with her plans to leave LA, she will join a long list of celebrities – including Sylvester Stallone, Kelly Clarkson and Mark Wahlberg – who have made the same move.

It’s not just celebrities who are leaving LA

Between 2021 and 2022, 817,669 people left California, making it the US state with the most people who moved. Some popular destinations for former California residents include Texas and Arizona, according to the Census Bureau.

Several former residents Business Insider previously spoke to cited the rising crime rate and high cost of living as contributing factors to their decision to move away from California.

Even the wealthy are abandoning their LA mansions for homes in cheaper areas, driven away by the “mansion tax” that affects homes sold for more than $5 million.

A representative for Jolie did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.