Pitt Of Despair Sad Brad's Custody Agony

The star’s empty nest is a shrine to his broken marriage.

- Megan McChesney

Alone in his huge Los Angeles mansion – once filled with the sound of six noisy kids – Brad Pitt is slowly coming to terms with the fact he will never live with his children again.

As lawyers for the Hollywood hunk and his estranged wife Angelina Jolie continue to thrash out the terms of their divorce behind closed doors, Brad has learned that the best he can expect is to be allowed “reasonable visitation” with Maddox, 16, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11, and twins Vivienne and Knox, nine.

“Poor Brad – he’s truly heartbroken,” a Pitt family insider tells Woman’s Day. “He was really hoping they would be back living with him, at least part-time, in the family home before too much longer.