Brad Pitt spent years buying up every neighbouring property around his Los Feliz estate. When he acquired the home of an elderly widower named John, already in his 90s, he could have asked him to leave. Instead, he told him he could stay for free for the rest of his life. John ended up living to 105. The story only came out because Pitt’s former neighbour, Cassandra Peterson, mentioned it in passing to People magazine. No announcement, no headlines. Just a good thing done quietly.