I love Brad and Angelina and applaud them for caring about children of all races and ethnicities. But it is totally wrong the sell pictures of your baby. It’s almost like selling their lives…
Exclusive pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins obtained $14 million, a person implied in the negotiations told The Associated Press, giving People magazine and British tabloid Hello! Magazine joint rights to publish the most pricey celebrity pictures ever taken.
The person asked not to be named because he was not sanctioned to discharge the information. People will highlight Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon in an issue to hit newsstands Monday, spokeswoman Nancy Valentino said Friday.
The money — more than doubled the $6 million People paid for Jennifer Lopez’ twins on a March cover, according to Forbes — will go to a foundation formed by Pitt and Jolie.
People plans to reveal the primary photo on its Web site on Sunday evening.
Jolie and Pitt sold the U.S. rights to the first shots of their daughter Shiloh, now 2 years old, in exchange for a reported $4 million donation
And last year, the couple sold intimate shots of their son Pax, then 3 years old, to Hello! and People.
When People published six photos of Pitt, Jolie and baby Shiloh in June 2006, the issue moved 2.2 million copies, its biggest seller at the time going back to its 4 million-selling 9/11 special, Media Week reported.
Jolie, 33, and Pitt, 44, donated $1 million in June to The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict to relieve children distress by the war in Iraq. Last year, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation gave more than $300,000 to sponsor t the International Rescue Committee’s relief program for Darfur refugees.
