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Brad Pitt To Build Palm Springs Resort

(WENN) Hollywood actor Brad Pitt is in negotiations to build a futuristic hotel resort in Palm Springs, California.

The Troy star, has visited German capital Berlin twice this year (06) to discuss the project with architect pals Thomas Willemeit, Wolfram Putz and Lars Krueckeberg, and met them again last weekend in the Dominican Republic to finalise details.

The group hopes to develop a $60 million futuristic resort in Palm Springs stretching across 20,000 square metres (215,278 square feet). The lavish complex will boast a vast swimming pool area, open air theatre, two restaurants, a bar, a huge spa and an outdoor cinema.

Earlier reports speculated Pitt was working with pal George Clooney on his Las Ramblas casino complex in Las Vegas, Nevada.

(World Entertainment News Network )

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Actor Brad Pitt is seen during a press conference at the International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, in this May 13, 2004, file photo. Pitt will narrate 'Design: e2,' a PBS series about environmentally friendly architecture, which is slated to air in June, a spokeswoman from kontentreal Productions said Tuesday., March 28, 20006. (AP Photo/Patrick Gardin)

Brad Pitt Talks Architecture on PBS

Tue Mar 28, 7:20 PM ET

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Brad Pitt is bringing his love of architecture to the public — public television, that is.

Pitt will narrate "Design: e2," a series about environmentally friendly architecture, which is slated to air in June on PBS, a spokeswoman from kontentreal productions said Tuesday.

"His involvement will allow us to educate more viewers than we had ever hoped about the importance of green building," executive producer Karena Albers said in a statement.

The six-part series will focus on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design.

Pitt was last seen on film in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" with girlfriend

Angelina Jolie. The two are expecting their first child later this year.

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Rift Between Clooney and Pitt

Did Brad double cross George?

By TMZ.COM STAFF

(April 4, 12:10PM ET) -- A Las Vegas business fiasco is causing trouble in a Hollywood A-list relationship, but this time it doesn't involve strippers or gambling.

We're told George Clooney is steamed that longtime pal Brad Pitt first backed out of a plan to join him in building a posh Las Vegas resort, only to turn around and set his sights on building a similar resort in Palm Springs.

The 'Ocean's Eleven' co-stars were investors in Las Ramblas, a $3 billion, 11-building complex off the Las Vegas Strip. But Pitt soon soured on the deal, leaving Clooney to partner with Cindy Crawford's club-owning husband, Rande Gerber.

"After Pitt left Clooney at the altar on the Vegas deal, it lost its steam and now the word around Vegas is that Las Ramblas is on its last legs," a Vegas insider tells TMZ. "So the idea that Brad's going to build his own hotel without George's help is quite the eye-opener."

Pitt has jetted to Germany twice recently to meet with a trio of award-winning architects he's hired to draw up plans for the as-yet unnamed, $60 million futuristic resort, WENN reports. Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Review-Journal says that Las Ramblas is on the verge of being sold to a new developer -- a report that a Las Ramblas spokesman has since denied.

"Clooney wants to run an old-school, black-tie formal resort in Las Vegas that harkens back to the Sinatra era, but Brad's more about being hip and more Hollywood-oriented, so that's the direction he's going with the plans in Palm Springs," the source says. "Industry types in Vegas always smirked at Clooney's plans, but Pitt's plan to tap into the young market makes more sense to them.

"The business deals gone bad will make for some cold shoulders on the set of 'Ocean's Thirteen,'" notes the source. The latest installment in the heist film series is slated to begin filming in Las Vegas in July.

Update: 2:10PM ET -- Stan Rosenfield, George Clooney's rep, tells TMZ "Brad Pitt was never committed" to the Las Ramblas project and called allegations that he backed out of the deal an "out and out fabrication." He also adds that any implication of "cold shoulders" on the set of the upcoming 'Ocean's Thirteen' are not true, and stressed that all the stars are committed to the project.

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