Angelina Jolie's supposedly palatial home in Cambodia has no running water, electricity for only four hours a day and is made up of just a few shacks in a field, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
It's always been thought the 44-year-old had a paradise rural retreat, but her compound is just a line of 'thatched buildings'.
It's situated in the remote area of Samlaut, in the Battambang province, and also acts as the field headquarters for the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP), her international non-profit charity.
According to a handbook distributed to visiting health specialists who are assigned to MJP, conditions at the compound are Spartan at best.
Staff are provided meals of white rice and little else every day and are banned from having sex.
But while volunteers have to stay at the compound, Jolie prefers to stay elsewhere, flying to a different destination at nights via a helicopter.
Angelina Jolie's supposedly palatial home in Cambodia has no running water, electricity for only four hours a day and is made up of just a few shacks in a field, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. While workers have to stay at the compound, Jolie is ferried out by night on a helicopter (pictured)
Instead of a huge mansion, the compound just a series of shacks with no running water, minimal electricity, no mobile phone signal, hand washing only and the non-profit charity provides very basic meals
'This is a secure compound containing small thatched buildings providing accommodation for rangers, ground staff, educationalist and visitors. There are often interesting people around and it can be a hive of activity. Therefore space is often at a premium and you may need to share a bedroom,' the handbook given to visiting volunteers states
The charity's compound hosts visiting workers from the United Kingdon's National Health Service (NHS).
Since 2008, the Thames Valley and Wessex NHS Leadership Academy, based in Hampshire, has been sending two health specialists for six-month placements every year to work with MJP.
MJP workers help give expertise in areas such as malnutrition, breastfeeding and improving post-natal care. The medics are expected to be respectful to locals and are given a handbook (pictured) on how to behave
The workers help give expertise in areas such as malnutrition, breastfeeding and improving post-natal care. The medics are expected to be respectful to locals and are given a handbook on how to behave while in the country.
But the compound where the volunteers stay is not quite what's expected when owned by a Hollywood star, who is reportedly worth $300 million.
Instead of a huge mansion, the compound is just a series of shacks with no running water, minimal electricity, no mobile phone signal, hand washing only, and the charity provides very basic meals.
'This is a secure compound containing small thatched buildings providing accommodation for rangers, ground staff, educationalist and visitors. There are often interesting people around and it can be a hive of activity. Therefore space is often at a premium and you may need to share a bedroom,' the NHS handbook states.
'Wash facilities are unisex and located separately from the bedrooms. There is no piped water so showers are taken by pouring a ladle of cold water over oneself. It's quite refreshing!'
The handbook continues: 'Samlaut accommodation is fully catered so three meals a day are provided to all staff. There are no other cooking facilities.
'The meals are all based on white rice with a selection
