Angelina and Shiloh on 5/19/08. Credit: WENN
Many of you commented on some of the (very heated and amusing) Brangelina threads that we have no way of verifying reports that there's a bidding war for the first photos of the twins and it's possible that those stories are false. Some of you thought that Brad and Angelina might be trying to preserve their privacy by refusing to sell the photos. Brad recently issued a cease and desist demanding the removal of photos taken with a telephoto lens of his family playing in their backyard, and that could be a sign that they're working to keep their children out of the public eye. The first photos of Pax and Shiloh were published in Hello! and People, but that doesn't mean that they're necessarily going to sell the photos of Knox and Vivienne, even though the money will go to charity.
A report has come out exclusively in Just Jared that the twin photos have been brokered to People Magazine for a staggering figure that's somewhere between $10 to $15 million. This story isn't sourced or even credited to an insider so it's hard to tell where they're getting their information. JustJared is a member of the Buzznet network and they were possibly given a tip by someone there or another insider source. It's also of course possible that this is another bs story:
JustJared.com has just learned that People magazine has drummed up the winning bid for the first pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins - Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. It is rumored that the winning bid is between $10 million and $15 million. The pictures will come up in a future People magazine issue (but not this week!). The money paid to Brad and Angelina has already been earmarked for charity.
[From Just Jared via We Smirch]
Babies are cute and I enjoy seeing the glamorous posed photos of the newborns at home with their parents, but that's a hell of a lot of money. At least we know that a worthy charity will benefit from it, which cannot be said of the baby photo money given to celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Nicole Richie, and Christina Aguilera. (Our new writer Sammie is working on a story about OK! Magazine's full coverage of Matthew McConaughey's new baby, Levi, and she mentioned that OK! gave a donation to his jk livin foundation. From the way she worded it, I got the impression that McConaughey got the full $3 million and an additional donation was given to his charity. I've asked her for clarification and we'll be reporting on that later in the day. At this point I'm not sure whether McConaughey and Alves pocketed the baby money.)
Celebrities that have chosen not to sell photos of their newborns include Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman. Berry brought criminal charges earlier this week against a photographer that captured a faraway picture of her in her backyard with four month old Nahla. She issued a statement that said "I will do everything I can for the sake of her safety and well-being to keep her out of the public eye." As commenter Anastasia pointed out, maybe Brad and Angelina are trying to keep the paparazzi away by releasing photos of their twins. That way, they won't get photographers hanging out in the surrounding woods in camouflage and attacking their security guys. For the type of money those first pictures are worth, photographers are willing to go to extraordinary measures to capture the twins on film.
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