Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt's Picture Published

By Doug Pendrell

Thursday, June 8, 2006

 

The media was so fascinated with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, they flew to Namibia to try to get a glimpse of them. Their photos were taken with telephoto lenses as they roamed around Swakopmund, waiting for Jolie to give birth to the couple's first child. Once the baby, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, came into the world, everybody knew the first photo would be worth millions. That was a lesson learned when Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had their baby, Suri.

 

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (everybody's favorite Brangelina), decided to take the picture themselves, and sell it off via auction. After Hello! secured the rights for Britain, and People secured the American rights, and of course, the photos were leaked on the Internet, sparking a huge legal battle, the rightful owners of the photographs have published Shiloh's picture for the world to see, and buy.

 

The Mercury News quotes the People Magazine article as saying "She's got Dad's baby blues and just a soft crop of fair hair, but it's those lips - check out the super-size pout - that most give her away," the magazine writes. "Yes, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt is definitely her mother's daughter."

 

Brangelina agreed to a six-photo private shoot with Shiloh, which took place on June 3rd.. The photos were then sold to Getty Images to be auctioned off, with the proceeds going to an unnamed charity. The New York Daily News quoted People Magazine managing editor, Larry Hackett, as saying "I think she looks like both of them. She has her mouth and his eyes."

 

According to Canada.com, the Associated Press quoted Angelina Jolie's brother, James Haven, as saying Maddox, the couple's four-year-old son, "imitated the way Brad held her just perfectly. To see the father, mother, daughter - it was such a beautiful image that it overtook me."

 

The price of the Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt baby photos seems to be the source of some debate. The figure of $4.1 million has been thrown around, though ABC News quoted Peter Castro, People Magazine's executive editor as saying "We've heard figures between $3.5 and $5 million, and this latest one of $4.1 million. They're all incorrect."

 

The other major revelation in the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt relationship is that, despite Shiloh being born, the couple still have no plans to marry. The Vancouver Sun quoted Angelina Jolie, at a press conference in Swakopmund, Namibia, saying "There is nothing in the air. The focus is the kids, and we are obviously extremely committed to the children and as parents together. So that kind of says it for us, and to have a ceremony on top of it is nothing."

 

The 30 year old activist who devotes much of her time to charity, Angelina Jolie is the star of such movies as Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Alexander. Jolie has been in the public eye quite frequently as of late, following her pairing up with Brad Pitt after his divorce from Jennifer Aniston. Brad Pitt, 42, has been the star of such hits as Fight Club, Troy, Ocean's Twelve, and is set to star in the up-coming movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight, who has starred in such hit films as Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Anaconda, Pope John Paul II, and most recently Disney's Glory Road, about legendary Texas Western basketball coach Don Haskins, where Voight played controversial Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp.

 

Angelina Jolie, the Academy Award winning actress who has acted in movies such as Girl, Interrupted, has also recently adopted two children. On March 10th, 2002, Angelina adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie, when he was 7 months old. Jolie met the child in a Cambodian orphanage while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Then, on July 5th, 2005, People magazine reported that Angelina Jolie was attempting to adopt an Ethiopian girl that had been orphaned, as her mother had died from AIDS. After a woman claiming to be the baby's mother was proven not to be, Jolie eventually gained custody of Zahara Marley Jolie. On January 19th, 2006, both of Angelina Jolie's babies were also adopted by Brad Pitt, giving the children the surname Jolie-Pitt.

 

[Additional Sources: Mercury News, New York Daily News, Canada.com, ABC News, Vancouver Sun]

 

- Doug Pendrell

 

 

 

 
 
     
 
 
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