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Brangelina baby photo sold for $11m
Monday, 14 July, 2008
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are proud parents once again. (AAP)
Hollywood golden couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sold photos of their new-borns twins to a US newspaper for $11 million.
Jolie, 33, gave birth to twins, a boy named Knox Leon and a girl called Vivienne Marcheline, last night during a half-hour caesarean operation at a maternity clinic in Nice on the French Riviera.
"Everything went smoothly. The children are doing very well, the mother is doing very well and the father is doing very well," gynaecologist Michel Sussmann said today.
Knox Leon weighed 2.27 kg and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kg.
Pitt, who had attended the birth by caesarean of their daughter Shiloh, "was very calm and was not at all disturbed" by the operation, said Sussman.
"When the babies arrived he was very euphoric" and Jolie had a "blinding smile".
Jolie is set to stay several more days at the Fondation Lenval clinic to recover. The twins were born slightly earlier than scheduled, Sussman said.
By early this afternoon, 20 or so photographers were waiting outside the hospital, a visibly smaller paparazzi pack than the one present at the beginning of the month, when Jolie was admitted.
Money 'given to humanitarian cause'
The first photograph of the baby celebrities was sold to a US paper for $US11 million ($A11.5 million), the regional Nice-Matin newspaper said, adding that the money would be given to a humanitarian cause.
The twins brought the number of Jolie's children with 44-year-old Pitt to six.
Dubbed "Brangelina" in the press, the couple have adopted three children: Maddox, six, born in Cambodia; four-year-old Pax, born in Vietnam; and Zahara, three, born in Ethiopia.
Their biological child, Shiloh, was born May 2006 in Namibia.
The pair, who frequently top magazine lists of the world's most beautiful people, set up home in May in a chateau they rented from an American acquaintance in France's Provence region.
The couple, who met in 2005 while filming Mr and Mrs Smith, have seen their relationship flourish despite frenzied tabloid attention and relentless speculation about a possible split.
Both Pitt and Jolie top the list of highest paid Hollywood stars, making $US10 million - $US20 million ($A10.4 million to $A20.8 million a film)
Source: AFP
Jolie, 33, gave birth to twins, a boy named Knox Leon and a girl called Vivienne Marcheline, last night during a half-hour caesarean operation at a maternity clinic in Nice on the French Riviera.
"Everything went smoothly. The children are doing very well, the mother is doing very well and the father is doing very well," gynaecologist Michel Sussmann said today.
Knox Leon weighed 2.27 kg and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kg.
Pitt, who had attended the birth by caesarean of their daughter Shiloh, "was very calm and was not at all disturbed" by the operation, said Sussman.
"When the babies arrived he was very euphoric" and Jolie had a "blinding smile".
Jolie is set to stay several more days at the Fondation Lenval clinic to recover. The twins were born slightly earlier than scheduled, Sussman said.
By early this afternoon, 20 or so photographers were waiting outside the hospital, a visibly smaller paparazzi pack than the one present at the beginning of the month, when Jolie was admitted.
Money 'given to humanitarian cause'
The first photograph of the baby celebrities was sold to a US paper for $US11 million ($A11.5 million), the regional Nice-Matin newspaper said, adding that the money would be given to a humanitarian cause.
The twins brought the number of Jolie's children with 44-year-old Pitt to six.
Dubbed "Brangelina" in the press, the couple have adopted three children: Maddox, six, born in Cambodia; four-year-old Pax, born in Vietnam; and Zahara, three, born in Ethiopia.
Their biological child, Shiloh, was born May 2006 in Namibia.
The pair, who frequently top magazine lists of the world's most beautiful people, set up home in May in a chateau they rented from an American acquaintance in France's Provence region.
The couple, who met in 2005 while filming Mr and Mrs Smith, have seen their relationship flourish despite frenzied tabloid attention and relentless speculation about a possible split.
Both Pitt and Jolie top the list of highest paid Hollywood stars, making $US10 million - $US20 million ($A10.4 million to $A20.8 million a film)
Source: AFP
