Brad Pitt invests $40m in Carmel estate that sits perilously close to a seaside cliff

Pitt's performance as a renegade, sugar-tongued hitchhiker who gets picked up by the two title characters in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991) grabbed universal attention despite only a few minutes' worth of screen time. Pitt's combination of charming bad boy charisma and sensual playfulness — particularly in a fiery love scene with Geena Davis—made him a genuine sex symbol (and wore out the rewind button on many a VCR).