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Jolie-Pitt twins' pictures released at last

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-04 10:48

After a frenzied bidding war, the first photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins has sold for a record US$14 million and has just been published online.

First Pictures of Pitt-Jolie twins

People magazine secured the exclusive rights to the photographs of Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon for a rumoured record price of $14 million in a joint deal with Britain's Hello! magazine. The money will be donated to charity.

People magazine released the photo, expected to be the magazine's cover shot, of the twins on its website Sunday 07:00 pm EDT.

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More pictures of the world's most famous twins will also feature in this week's issue of Britain's Hello! magazine.

The twins were born one minute apart on July 12 in Nice, France.

The Associated Press quoted an unnamed source saying People had paid $14 million for the rights with the cost to be split with Hello!, but the mags have not confirmed the price tag.

Photographic agency Getty Images has confirmed it did the highly sought-after photo shoot of the twins with Jolie, Pitt and the couple's four other children -- Maddox, Zahara, Pax and Shiloh. The staged shoot thwarted the best efforts of paparazzi to get the valuable first shots.

The price for the celebrity baby photographs is more than double the $6 million People paid for Jennifer Lopez's twins on a March cover.