Friday 8 August 2008

People, Hello! buy first photos of Jolie-Pitt twins

NEW YORK () - The first pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newborn twins experience been sold to entertainment news magazines People and Hello!, with all issue going to charity.





Getty Images said on Friday it had done an exclusive photo pip of the twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, with Jolie, Pitt and the couple's four other children, Maddox, Zahara, Pax and Shiloh -- three of whom are adopted.





Getty did not disclose the amount gainful by the magazines for the exposure rights simply some newsworthiness media reported it was about $11 million. An industry source said that figure was higher than the amount of money paid by both People and Hello!





"The Jolie-Pitt family and Getty Images have in agreement that all proceeds will be used for charitable purposes," the agency said in a statement.





It aforesaid the photos will be published on Monday in People in North America and in Hello! elsewhere.





Oscar winner Jolie, 33, gave birth to the twins on July 12 in Nice, France. The family has rented a villa in nearby Provence.





Jolie and Pitt, 44, are one of Hollywood's virtually glamorous couples, dubbed "Brangelina" by the celebrity urge on, and the birth of their gemini was the subject of obsessive media coverage.





People magazine reportedly nonrecreational $4 gazillion in June 2006 for North American rights to pictures of Jolie and Pitt's number one biological child, Shiloh, although industry sources said that figure was wildly inaccurate.





The couple donated the money from the photos of Shiloh, world Health Organization was born in Namibia, to charities helping African children.�






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