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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]
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