Record US$4,1 m for Shiloh pics

AMERICAN magazine People has secured exclusive rights to publish the first pictures of Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s baby Shiloh Nouvel for a reported US$4,1 million (about N$28 million), according to reports yesterday.

The photo deal sets a new record for celebrity baby pictures. Angelina and Brad have promised to donate the money raised from the sale of the photographs to children’s charities.People magazine announced on its website yesterday that it would publish the photos by tomorrow.The magazine expects to sell at least a million copies of the photos of Shiloh Nouvel.Getty Images took the photos of Shiloh at a private shoot this past weekend.The Namibian established from some South African newspapers yesterday that Getty, the international photo agency which won the rights to distribute Shiloh Nouvel’s first photos, had offered newspapers there a single photo of the celebrity baby (for one use only) at R250 000.A statement released in New York by Angelina and Brad said: “While we celebrate the joy of the birth of our daughter, we recognise that two million babies born every year in the developing world die on the first day of their lives.These children can be saved, but only if governments around the world make it a priority.”The New York Post yesterday reported that Getty had summoned various picture editors to their New York offices to show them Shiloh’s photos and invite bids for them.One picture editor told the paper that “We were sequestered in separate offices.The photos were shown to us around 10 pm to midnight and then we had to submit bids by 6 am Sunday morning.”The photographs of Shiloh, which were taken at an undisclosed location at the Namibian coast and rushed to New York, were described as “very intimate, casual and not Hollywood glitz”.Hello magazine has also promised to deliver the pictures of the adorable baby girl by the weekend.Angelina and Brad have promised to donate the money raised from the sale of the photographs to children’s charities.People magazine announced on its website yesterday that it would publish the photos by tomorrow.The magazine expects to sell at least a million copies of the photos of Shiloh Nouvel.Getty Images took the photos of Shiloh at a private shoot this past weekend. The Namibian established from some South African newspapers yesterday that Getty, the international photo agency which won the rights to distribute Shiloh Nouvel’s first photos, had offered newspapers there a single photo of the celebrity baby (for one use only) at R250 000.A statement released in New York by Angelina and Brad said: “While we celebrate the joy of the birth of our daughter, we recognise that two million babies born every year in the developing world die on the first day of their lives.These children can be saved, but only if governments around the world make it a priority.”The New York Post yesterday reported that Getty had summoned various picture editors to their New York offices to show them Shiloh’s photos and invite bids for them.One picture editor told the paper that “We were sequestered in separate offices.The photos were shown to us around 10 pm to midnight and then we had to submit bids by 6 am Sunday morning.”The photographs of Shiloh, which were taken at an undisclosed location at the Namibian coast and rushed to New York, were described as “very intimate, casual and not Hollywood glitz”.Hello magazine has also promised to deliver the pictures of the adorable baby girl by the weekend.