Angelina Buys $1.6M Helicopter for Brad

And it wasn't even his birthday
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted May 15, 2012 9:22 AM CDT
Angelina Buys $1.6M Helicopter for Brad
Actor Brad Pitt, right, and actress Angelina Jolie arrive before the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Apparently Angelina Jolie felt the need to one-up her own gift to Brad Pitt: After buying him a waterfall for Christmas, Jolie has now forked over nearly $1.6 million for a helicopter and piloting lessons, the Sun reports. Why? No particular reason—she just “thought it would be nice to buy Brad a helicopter as a surprise present,” a source says, explaining that the couple already installed a helipad on their France property, as such people do. Click for more completely insane celebrity gifts. (More Angelina Jolie stories.)

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