Red carpet premieres, lavish vacations, and a trust fund so big that it'd make royalty weep — turns out life ain't so bad when you're the child of Hollywood A-listers.
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00:00red carpet premieres, lavish vacations, and a trust fund so big that it'd make royalty weep.
00:06Turns out life ain't so bad when you're the child of Hollywood A-listers.
00:10When Shiloh Jolie was born in 2006, all eyes were on her parents. The two Hollywood stars
00:15decided to accept a lucrative offer from People magazine, which reportedly paid an impressive
00:20$4.1 million for the right to publish the first baby pics of Shiloh. In 2024, a source told Life
00:27When Shiloh was born, Brad and Angelina sold the rights to her first pics for an absolute fortune.
00:33They donated a lot of it to charity, but they also put a big chunk in an account for her.
00:37While Shiloh was making money even as a baby,
00:40insiders claim that she doesn't act spoiled at all. The same source said,
00:43The irony, of course, is that she couldn't be less materialistic,
00:46and doesn't have any interest in flaunting her wealth. She just wants to be a regular
00:50kid and blend in. It's quite something because she could easily be a Hollywood it-girl,
00:54and instead she just wants to be normal. Of course, while Shiloh may be down-to-earth and
00:58easy-going, there's no denying that she grew up privileged, living a life that
01:02most children could only dream of. Even though she doesn't normally work in the entertainment
01:07industry, Shiloh has attended numerous star-studded Hollywood premieres alongside her famous parents.
01:13In fact, she's been attending movie premieres alongside her siblings since she was a child,
01:17and it seems as if supporting her parents' work has been an important part of her life.
01:21In a 2023 interview with Vogue, Angelina Jolie revealed that her kids choose to attend the
01:26events, and that they are always allowed to skip them if they don't feel like going. She said,
01:31Nobody has to go anywhere if they don't want to. And if they don't want to dress up,
01:34they don't have to."
01:35Since Angelina and Brad Pitt divorced, Shiloh has been mostly supporting her mother by attending
01:40premieres for her movies, such as Maleficent, Mistress of Evil in 2019, and Eternals in 2021.
01:48When your children are your best friends, it's a nice life."
01:51Both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie tend to travel a lot for movie projects and
01:56humanitarian work, and this has allowed Shiloh and her siblings to see the world.
02:00In 2007, Angelina told People magazine,
02:03I think the greatest education I can give my kids,
02:05particularly as they are international children, is to keep them traveling.
02:09I think if they spend six months in Africa and come back to L.A. and then go to Asia for a few
02:14months, we are showing them so much about the world and so much about understanding and tolerance
02:19and the beauty of other cultures."
02:21In fact, traveling is such a crucial part of Shiloh's childhood that Angelina even
02:25admitted she prefers going away with her children for the holidays instead of celebrating at home.
02:30In 2013, she said,
02:32I love to travel in the holidays because I feel like I'd rather give the kids the
02:36gift of a new country than a box of presents, but I still give them some presents.
02:40As the daughter of two of Hollywood's biggest stars, it's safe to say that,
02:44if Shiloh Jolie ever decided to pursue a career in the movie industry,
02:48plenty of doors would be open to her. She actually has a few acting credits already.
02:52In 2008, baby Shiloh appeared in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button alongside her dad,
02:57and in 2016, she played Shwe Shwe in the animated movie Kung Fu Panda 3, which also starred her
03:03mother.
03:05Hi, I'm Cuckoo. I'm Naina. I'm Shwe Shwe. You're first. She smells like cookie.
03:09According to Angelina Jolie, however, Shiloh isn't very much into acting,
03:13and she even declined a role alongside her mother in Disney's 2014 movie Maleficent.
03:18Angelina told Elle that same year,
03:20I asked Shiloh about being Aurora, and she laughed in my face.
03:23Shiloh's younger sister, Vivienne, took on the role of a younger Aurora in the movie instead.
03:28Angelina added,
03:29Brad and I made the decision that we wouldn't keep them from sets and the fun of making movies,
03:34but we wouldn't glorify it either. We wouldn't make it a good thing or a bad thing.
03:38While Angelina never forces her kids to participate in projects she's working on,
03:42she does encourage them to be creative. A source told Us Weekly in 2023,
03:47Angie's very encouraging of that. She wants all the kids to explore their creative sides
03:51and hear from talented actors and actresses directly what it's like to work in the biz,
03:55how they got their start, and so on and so forth.
03:58Of course, this is a privilege that only comes with having famous parents in Hollywood.
04:02Very few actors are able to just pick up blockbuster roles when they feel like it.
04:06Considering both of her parents are A-list Hollywood stars,
04:09it's perhaps no surprise that Shiloh Jolie has lived in quite a few luxurious homes
04:14during her life. Angelina Jolie has owned properties in Cambodia and Spain,
04:18as well as a 17th-century chateau in France where she married Brad Pitt in 2014,
04:23in addition to the multiple homes and apartments she has owned in the United States.
04:27Among the most famous of these residences was their apartment in New York City's
04:31prestigious Waldorf Astoria. After the couple separated,
04:35Angelina bought a $24.5 million mansion in Las Villas. In 2021, Angelina told British Vogue,
04:43"...I wanted it to be close to their dad, who is only five minutes away.
04:46I love most that there is no entertainment room, but lots of pathways and places to
04:50walk and think. I feel very fortunate we have that at this time."
04:53The mansion had been built in 1913, and prior to Angelina moving in with her brood,
04:58it was owned by Hollywood legend Cecil B. DeMille. The home was built on an estate
05:02spanning 2.1 acres, and it enjoys views of both the ocean and the city of Los Angeles.
05:08It's great for children to have special interests, but often parents are unable to support them,
05:14since some hobbies can become quite expensive. Of course, for Shiloh Jolie,
05:18money was never an obstacle, as her parents could afford to fund any hobby she chose.
05:23"...Oh, I love men. I love them to find their own way,
05:26find the things they're interested in, find their own voice, and flourish."
05:30In the early 2020s, Shiloh picked up dancing and began practicing at the Movement Lifestyle
05:35Studio in Burbank, California. Her dance coach, Lil' K. Carter, shared to Instagram that Shiloh's
05:41movement is, in his words, "...crazy." Both of Shiloh's parents are proud of her talent and
05:46passion, and a source revealed that they will support her no matter what she decides to do
05:50with dancing in the future. In 2022, the insider told Us Weekly,
05:54"...Brad and Angie are both very proud. They'd have no issue if she wants to turn pro,
05:58but they're not pushing it on her by any means."
06:00The source claimed that Shiloh truly loves dancing,
06:03suggesting that she's taking her talent quite seriously. They also revealed that,
06:07in addition to genuinely falling in love with the art of dance,
06:10she's made some good friends through the dancing community, too.
06:14It's no secret that education can be expensive, but luckily for Shiloh and her siblings,
06:19her parents have more than enough to afford to send her to any school she wants.
06:23Her brother, Maddox, is enrolled at Yonsei University in South Korea,
06:27while her sister, Zahara, attends Spelman College in Atlanta. While it's not yet known what Shiloh
06:32will decide to do after high school, there's no doubt that she has more options than most children.
06:37Angelina Jolie has always stressed just how important education is for her children,
06:41which is also why she encouraged traveling so much. In an interview on BBC's Woman's Hour,
06:46the star admitted that all of her kids adore learning new languages. She said,
06:51"...all the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages
06:54they wanted to learn and Shai is learning Khmer, which is a Cambodian language,
06:58Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French,
07:04Vivian really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language."
07:08"...I've only seen diversity as strength."
07:11Most kids could only dream of having a trust fund to access in the future, of course.
07:15But for Shiloh Jolie, that's not a dream, it's reality. Indeed, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
07:21have ensured that all of their children have trust funds. A source told Life & Style in 2024
07:26that the two stars have always agreed that the money the kids earn should be placed into funds.
07:31They added,
07:31"...they created accounts for all their kids to use for things like education and travel,
07:36and even to buy their own homes down the line. All the kids have all had very careful forward
07:40planning done for them financially, whether it's magazine paydays, or inheritance from relatives,
07:45or money accumulated in trust over the years."
07:47While the exact rules regarding Shiloh's trust fund access aren't clear,
07:51she clearly has access to a significant amount of money already. For example,
07:55when Shiloh made the decision to drop Pitt from her last name in 2024,
07:59she financed a lawyer all by herself. A source told Entertainment Tonight,
08:04"...Shiloh hired her own lawyer and paid for it herself,
08:07so Angie doesn't know and can't speak for it."
08:09The fact that Shiloh has a trust fund to fall back on is a luxury that most people
08:13won't be able to relate to.
08:15As the daughter of style icon Angelina Jolie, Shiloh Jolie has an innate fashion sense,
08:20and she's not afraid to express it. Angelina told Reuters in 2010,
08:24"...I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not.
08:28I think that is just bad parenting. Children should be allowed to express themselves in
08:32whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their
08:36growth."
08:36For Shiloh, Angelina's philosophy meant that she could explore style on her own terms,
08:41and as a toddler and tween, she was very into masculine fashion.
08:45Over the years, we've seen Shiloh rock a variety of different looks,
08:48more recently exploring clothes that are more traditionally feminine,
08:52and luckily for her, she can borrow from her famous mom's closet anytime she wants.
08:56You know, it's also when you're a mom and you pass it, it's their turn,
09:00right? It's their turn, and you say, oh, she looks so much better than I did."
09:04This means that Shiloh has access to luxury designer fashion brands,
09:08something not many kids can brag about. For the Eternals premiere in the UK in 2021,
09:13Shiloh donned a patterned black-and-white Dior dress that Angelina had previously
09:17worn to a press conference. During the movie's L.A. premiere, Angelina told ET,
09:23"'My kids are all mixed with vintage and my old Oscars. These are my old Oscar dress.
09:28We did all vintage and, like, upcycled my old stuff."
09:30Zahara and Shiloh showed up to that event rocking Elie Saab Haute Couture and Gabriella Hearst,
09:36respectively. Not much is known about Shiloh's net worth, and her exact value has never been
09:41confirmed. In 2020, however, Electric Ride on Car's Kids Rich List reported that she and her
09:47siblings have $250 million in their trust funds. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Brad Pitt is
09:53estimated to be worth $400 million, while Angelina Jolie has a net worth of $120 million. If these
10:00estimations are correct, it's no surprise that their children would be worth millions, too.
10:04Meanwhile, InTouch has reported that Shiloh now makes more than $10,000 a week.
10:09A source told the outlet in 2023 that she is very
10:12"'savvy' when it comes to finances, and she earns $14,000 a week doing side jobs."
10:17So how does this teenager make so much dough? Through modeling opportunities, mostly.
10:22The source added,
10:23"'She's been offered lucrative modeling gigs, which she's mulling over.
10:26Shiloh says modeling isn't her thing, but she would use the paycheck to finance her dance,
10:30art, and movie projects."
10:32Aside from modeling, the source claims that Shiloh is also taking other gigs
10:35to earn money here and there, including dance jobs and tutoring. The source said,
10:40"'Shiloh is a typical 16-year-old and she's expressing herself in so many ways.
10:44Her main love right now is dance and she's really good at it.'"