HOUSE OF HORRORS

It’s sheer chaos Trashed rooms. No rules. No Brad. at Angelina Jolie’s new mansion

Creating order in the details of day-to-day life has never been Angelina Jolie’s strong suit. After she bought the estate of Hollywood legend Cecil B. Demille in LA’S Los Feliz neighborhood earlier this year, she told Maddox, 16, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11, and 9-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — the children she shares with her ex Brad Pitt, who lives just minutes away — that “they could all decorate their rooms,” a family insider tells In Touch. “[Decorating] was always Brad’s thing,” Angelina admitted in a recent interview. The result? The $25 million home, says the family insider, “is a cross between a trashed frat house and a Dayglocovered rave club.”

But questionable decor is the least of Angelina’s worries. “It’s a house of horrors,” the family insider says of the six-bedroom, 10-bath home. And it’s one of her own making. For years, Angelina cultivated a nomadic, free-spirited lifestyle for her kids and then smeared her ex as a parent to ensure the children would live with her. Now, a year after blindsiding Brad, 53, by filing for divorce and requesting full custody, she finds herself stuck in LA and “overwhelmed,” says a source close to Brad. The Oscar winner, 42, who recently admitted she

hates being single, cries in the shower away from the kids — “I do not want my children to be worried about me,” she says — and struggles to maintain any sense of order. “Overall,” says an insider close to Angie, “it’s a desperately lonely, difficult existence for Angelina right now.”

At Angelina’s estate, the “loud, brawling” kids rule the roost

— with crayons in hand. “They express themselves by scribbling and coloring on the walls,” says the family insider. The artistic streak is nothing new: Angelina famously let them decorate the Versace wedding dress she wore when she wed Brad in 2014. And the Brad source says the kids would make their mark — literally — on Miraval, Brad and Angelina’s $60 million estate in France. But the globe-trotting Jolie-pitt family was never there for long, and when they’d jet away to another destination, “Crews came in to repair the damage,” says the Brad source. “So the next time they came back, it would be in pristine condition.”

That’s not the case now. “Food and water fights and soccer games in the house remain the norm,” says the family insider. All hell has broken loose, and the raucous activity has taken a toll on the 11,000-square-foot structure. The Maleficent star is in over her head and overwhelmed since putting down roots for the first time as a single mom of six, says the Brad source. “Angelina has no clue what she is doing. There are absolutely no rules.”

For starters, bedtimes don’t exist. “It’s not uncommon for all of the kids to be up past midnight during the week, eating sugary snacks and soda,” says the Brad source. “They go to bed very, very late and end up sleeping in very late the next day.” On the afterhours agenda: blasting classic rock like the Rolling Stones, dancing and screening films intended for a more mature audience.

Guests often get a taste of the adolescents’ mischievousness. “The kids delight in letting loose their collection of animals — a number of dogs, cats, hamsters, snakes — to terrorize visitors and household staff,” says the family insider. And not even the hired help can, well, help. “The kids have been openly defiant and unmanageable when it comes to tutors and nannies,” continues the Brad source. “The nannies

‘‘ There’s nothing nice about it. It’s just hard” — ANGELINA ON BEING SINGLE

have no control when it comes to the kids. They pretty much run them. It’s a case of the lunatics taking over the asylum.”

All the while, Angelina has struggled to keep up. “Although she’s maternal, as much as she wants to be, Angie’s not good at being a homemaker,” says the Angelina insider. “She can barely get breakfast on the table.” (Or dinner. “I don’t know how to make basic spaghetti,” she admitted in 2015.) But it’s not just pancakes and pasta that stress her out. “Juggling basic caregiving and daily schedules that include playdates, doctor’s appointments and organizing meal times for her brood is all too much for her,” continues the Angie insider. Angelina admitted as much in a recent interview. “Sometimes maybe it appears I am pulling it all together,” she said, “but really I am just trying to get through my days...i’m not as strong inside as I have been in the past.” She also confessed, “I don’t enjoy being single. It’s not something I wanted.”

Brad, whom Angelina referred to as the “bad cop” parent when they were still married, has taken notice. “He believes Angelina lets the kids run amok,” says the family insider. But when he tries to discuss it with his ex, “He is absolutely shut down,” says the Brad source. “Brad thought that once Angie bought a house and got used to having the family base in LA the rest would fall in place. But it obviously hasn’t. He feels powerless because Angie won’t take any direction or guidance from how he parents the kids.”

So he strives to provide more structure. At Brad’s home, “The kids have a much more stable environment,” says the Brad source. “They aren’t allowed to just run around and destroy anything they want.” And while Angelina’s home has stuff y wood-paneled rooms and a fussy, manicured lawn, Brad’s pad is much more kid-friendly. Multiple play yards, a custom-built skate park and a swimming pool “allow the kids to get a lot of energy out in a productive and healthy manner.”

But Brad’s main concern is school, not recess. “He’s troubled that they are not getting enough basic education from home tutors, whom the kids know how to con and manipulate,” says the family insider. “One of Brad’s biggest bones of contention with Angelina remains his wanting the kids in structured private schools. He knows they are smart, loving children, but he doesn’t want to see them become lost individuals later on in life.” To that end, he’s making demands in the ongoing divorce battle, says the family insider: “He wants a firm say in their education when custody is finally sorted out.”

But with no resolution in sight, the status quo remains. And even Angelina can’t stand the mess she created. Though she still has a sense of wanderlust and longs to travel like she used to — “I cannot sit still,” she recently said — her outings these days are much more local. She finds the home so “stifling,” says the Angie insider, “that every chance she gets she takes the kids out, whether it’s to Target or the hobby store. Anything to break up the loneliness of the new home.” But every evening, when she returns, she has to face that loneliness. “There are nights she feels so abandoned,” says the Angie insider, “that she can’t sleep.” ◼