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(NewsNation) — Brad Pitt has a new home, and he’s taking measures to make sure this new pad won’t be broken into like his last one.

This week, The Wall Street Journal announced Pitt paid $12 million for a Spanish-style mansion in the prestigious Hollywood Hills community called Outpost Estates.

The purchase comes almost two months after his Los Feliz home was broken into and ransacked by thieves (Pitt and his live-in love, Ines de Ramon, were in Europe at th

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