Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split: how will their luxury property portfolio be divided?

Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from her actor husband Brad Pitt after two years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

The Hollywood A-list couple have been together for 12 years and have amassed a combined property portfolio that would make a James Bond villain seriously jealous.

Granted, the pair - who have six children - need a considerable amount of space.

Their extensive property assets reportedly include an 80,000sq ft Hollywood "compound" made up of a mansion, four smaller houses either side, a skate park that runs between the properties, three swimming pools and a secret cave.

Pitt began building the residence in July 1994 when he bought a six-bedroom house in Los Feliz, for $1.7 million. The surrounding properties were snapped up over the next two decades, with the fifth house bought in 2008 by the pair.

The couple also own a New Orleans period mansion; an apartment in New York City’s famous Ansonia building; and a village-sized estate in Provence where the pair tied the knot two years ago.

Pitt is reported to have recently acquired a home on the Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, after spending time on the island while filming Allied. However, as the property has eight-bedrooms he should have plenty of space for the couple’s children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.

Quite how these properties will be divided is anybody’s guess.

They met in 2005 on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith, a film about two contract killers bored with married life. Last year they appeared in the Jolie-directed film By The Sea, about a couple trying to repair their marriage while staying in a hotel in France.

In divorce documents filed by Jolie, she requests miscellaneous jewellery and personal effects plus “additional separate property assets and obligations of the parties, the exact nature and extent of which are not presently known”.