The bizarre connection between Brad Pitt, Jimi Hendrix, and Elvira
Hollywood is a place that throws up strange and unlikely connections all the time, with Brad Pitt finding himself caught in the middle of one that takes some seriously unexpected detours along the way.
The future A-list mainstay and Elvira had almost crossed paths in the mid-1980s when she was starring in her own feature-length horror comedy Mistress of the Dark. The male lead was played by Kris Kramm, but the gothic cult hero revealed that Pitt was one of the many names to test out for the part.
More than a decade after that, their paths finally crossed in person when Elvira sold Pitt a mansion in the Hollywood Hills for the princely sum of $1.7 million. In a caveat that was hardly out of the ordinary considering her persona, though, she revealed the abode carried added supernatural furnishings.
Even though Elvira shared, “we were kind of just warning him that a lot of weird things have been going on there in the house,” Pitt didn’t have any issues with a small screen favourite known for her love of all things dark and macabre selling him a house that may or may not have been haunted.
Pitt clearly didn’t mind even if it was, considering that not only did he fulfil the purchase, but he held onto the property until 2023, making an eye-watering profit into the bargain when he sold it for $39m. Where exactly does Jimi Hendrix come into this? Well, befitting the overtly weird nature of the tale, it involves psychedelics and a random hippie.
The soft and soulful ‘May This Be Love’ stood out in stark contrast against the screeching, wailing, pioneering, and ultimately influential guitars of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1967 debut album Are You Experienced, which contained such classics as ‘Foxy Lady’, ‘Fire’, and ‘I Don’t Live Today’. As Pitt told GQ, the track may well have been written on the grounds of the property he purchased from Elvira.
“I don’t know if it’s true,” he admitted. “But a hippie came by and said he used to drop acid with Jimi back there, so I run with the story.” It’s the type of tall tale that sounds so far-fetched it could only unfold in the mad world of Hollywood, and while Pitt never received confirmation that it was irrevocably true, it’s just crazy enough that it probably is, especially given his mysterious source.
Hendrix penning a song from an album that became a seminal moment in rock music in a house that was inherited by Elvira, became haunted along the way, and then got sold off to one of the most famous faces on the planet is outlandish, to say the least, but that’s Tinseltown.
