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The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, center, holds the birth certificates of one of Angelina Jolie’s twins, Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt, as he and Dr. Michel Sussmann, Angie’s obstetrician, left, pose for the media, at the Lenval Hospital in Nice, southern France on Sunday. Knox was born at 6:27 pm and Vivienne Marcheline came within a minute of that time.
Outside the hospital, Sussmann shared how smoothly the delivery of Knox and Vivienne went:
On Brad and Angie during the labor and delivery: “[They] were talking, they were together. It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy.”
On Brad never leaving Angie’s side: “He was my assistant! [He even cut the babies' umbilical cords!] He was … perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the birth of his children, very moved and very emotional.”
On when Angie and the babies will leave the hospital: “I don’t know. She will stay for a few days. You know, in Europe it isn’t like in the United States, where the patients go home after three days. They will stay a bit longer until everything is okay.”
On the delivery in general: “Absolutely no problems. The babies are fine. The babies are with the mother and father and they are fine.”
FYI: Inside is a close-up of the Knox’s birth certificate…
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Telling People You don’t know what to do, is disturbing.. ^
Thank You bdj for all The Morning News!
Cant wait to see those baby pics….Angie and Brad, as parents of 2 1/2 year old twins, we welcome you to the world of insanity…lol….
what a beautiful gift…We are so glad that you and the babies are healthy and fine….
Brad, now you have your son, so leave ANGIE alone….!!! LOL
and….you 2 are so AWESOME for donating all those millions to charity…GOD blesses those who help others….
WE WISH YOU HEALTH AND HAPPINESS ALWAYS….
P.S. Bet Jen isnt having a good day !! lol….she should have had a PITT baby 5 minutes after they got married…she will probably regret that forever……oy!
Thanks for the news articles and links bdj
Brad has three son ( Maddox, Pax, Knox). They may very well have more children. They seem to be open to more. Though I’m sure with twins that they may wait a couple of years.
les @ 07/14/2008 at 9:11 am
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And yet you Ass is here right along with us. b i t c h troll ass please. This ain’t the first time you’ve posted here and it ain’t going to be the last, your ass ain’t fooling anyone ya dumbass.
I’m sure they had the babies this weekend just because Aniston is getting too much coverage.
Sound stupid? That’s how crazy you loonie fans sound when you accused Aniston of the same thing.
I’m sick of hearing about Jolie-Pitt! I’ll bet all the money that they’ll get two more nannies. That’ll make 5 nannies for 6 kids.
Knox and Vivienne make 8 for Jolie-Pitt family
7/14/2008, 7:45 a.m. CDT
By COLLEEN BARRY
The Associated Press
NICE, France (AP) — Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world’s most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins — a boy and a girl — and all “are doing marvelously well,” the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital on the French Riviera said Sunday.
The newborns — Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born one minute apart Saturday evening — are the ultimate million-dollar babies, with experts estimating their first photos will fetch a fortune.
“In the celebrity world, it seems to be the double second coming,” said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a photo agency in London.
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For now, mother, father and newborns are resting out of the public eye on the fifth floor of the Lenval hospital, behind blue mirrored windows that provide sweeping views of Nice’s sun-drenched beaches, but specially treated to deflect the prying lenses of paparazzi.
Jolie’s obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie’s side during the delivery, looking on as the doctor performed a Caesarean section to deliver Knox, weighing in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne, who weighed 5 pounds.
“He was my assistant,” Sussmann joked.
“He was very happy. … The emotion was very strong for him,” Sussmann told reporters on the hospital steps. “I felt the emotion of both the mother and the father. Angelina Jolie was speaking, was laughing with her husband. They were happy.”
“The mother, the babies, the father are doing marvelously well,” he said.
Sussmann said the Caesarean was moved forward from its originally planned date “for medical reasons” so the babies could be born “in the best conditions.” The doctor did not elaborate.
He said Jolie, 33, is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days and that she now needs rest. The four other Jolie-Pitt children — Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2 — have not yet seen their new sister and brother, he said.
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Associated Press - PARIS (AP) — They are the ultimate million-dollar babes. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s new twins, a girl and a boy born by Caesarean section on Saturday, are barely a few hours old but already their first photos are worth a fortune.
A million dollars, two, five, 10 even 20 million? Exactly how much the first “official” snaps will be sold for is not clear. But the figures being bandied about make the eyes pop.
Nice Matin, the hometown daily in the Riviera city in the south of France where Jolie gave birth, put the twins’ worth at more than $11 million. It first broke news of the birth and reported Sunday that the couple have sold the rights for the first photo of their newly enlarged family to a U.S. publication, which it did not name, and that the proceeds would go to charity.
“I’ve never known a set of pictures to be worth this amount of money,” said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a celebrity photo agency in London. He estimated that the twins’ official photos will be worth between $15 million and $20 million.
The only other photos that “would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien,” he said.
Veteran London-based celebrity publicist Max Clifford estimated that the first photos could fetch 10 million pounds — roughly $20 million — “which would make it the biggest baby deal ever.”
“These kind of pictures sell lots of magazines,” he said. “It’s a 10-million-pound gamble as to whether the ends justify the means. But obviously it’s a very calculated risk because whoever lands the photos will have a lot of experience with the popularity of mum and dad.”
Cue the paparazzi. They’ve been camped in Nice since shortly after Jolie’s admission to the Lenval hospital there at the end of June, hoping for possibly lucrative pictures of the glamourous Hollywood couple. For them, the Brangelina twins are the biggest story of the year.
Never mind that Jolie was ensconced on the fifth floor in a section of the maternity ward that has been security-enhanced, that she was staying out of sight behind the mirrored blue windows, and that the hospital said that it had put up a special material on the windows of the couple’s room that prevents telephoto lenses from peering through.
Paparazzi still had hopes that they would get a valuable shot of Jolie — either as an expectant or brand-new mother. And Pitt made an attainable target: he was photographed coming and going from the hospital with some of the couple’s four other children.
Clifford said he didn’t think that paparazzi will be able to get any candid shots of the babies and, if they do, he didn’t think they will have much impact on the value of the official photos.
“If there are sneak shots, they’re not going to be anything like the posed ones,” he said. “All it does is whet the appetite of those who want to see real quality pictures.”
Lyons of Big Pictures also did not think paparazzi will get candid shots.
“There’s always a chance in this business. It’s down to who is good at what they do,” he said. “If you were to get a paparazzi set of photos you could easily buy a little island to live on for the rest of your life.”
“Certainly, the feeding frenzy just goes to show that people talk about the celebrity-obsessed world we live in. If publishers are willing to pay up to 15 million, there are obviously plenty of people wanting to see them.”
“In the celebrity world, it seems to be the double second coming,” he added.
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Associated Press writers Colleen Barry in Nice, France, and Emily Ristow in London contributed to this report.
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The doctor said he believed the baby girl’s middle name was chosen in honor of Jolie’s mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January 2007 after a 7 1/2-year battle with cancer.
News of the births attracted a small crowd of fans hoping to snap a photo of Pitt — or any of their celebrity friends stopping by to pay a visit. None appeared, but the mayor of Nice delivered the twin’s birth certificates, which he later displayed to reporters, with the family’s approval, showing Pitt’s scrawling WBP, for his full name William Brad Pitt.
“The father is having one of the happiest moments of his life, like any father, especially when they have the joy of having two children from such a wonderful wife as Angelina Jolie,” Mayor Christian Estrosi said after the brief official visit, which spared Pitt the gauntlet of paparazzi that would accompany any trip to City Hall.
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“The mother is doing fine. She is smiling a lot. She is as happy as the father,” Estrosi said.
The twins’ arrival has spurred a rash of speculation about the price of the first “official” snaps.
Nice Matin, the hometown daily in the Riviera city in the south of France, put the worth of the twins’ photos at more than $11 million. It first broke news of the birth and reported Sunday that the couple have sold the rights for the first photo of their newly expanded family to a U.S. publication, which it did not name, and that the proceeds would go to charity.
“I’ve never known a set of pictures to be worth this amount of money,” said Lyons, the owner of Big Pictures. He estimated that the twins’ official photos will be worth between $15 million and $20 million.
The only other photos that “would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien,” he said.
Veteran London-based celebrity publicist Max Clifford estimated the first photos could fetch 10 million pounds — roughly euro12 million or $20 million, “which would make it the biggest baby deal ever.”
“These kind of pictures sell lots of magazines,” he said. “It’s a 10-million-pound ($20 million) gamble as to whether the ends justify the means. But obviously it’s a very calculated risk because whoever lands the photos will have a lot of experience with the popularity of mum and dad.”
Paparazzi have been following the couple through southern France since the Cannes film festival in May, snapping shots of the family on an outing to Eze beach and sticking close as they set up household in Correns, 60 miles from Nice. But so far the couple has evaded the paparazzi when it counted, arriving undetected at the Lenval clinic two weeks before the birth.
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Associated Press Writers John Leicester in Paris and Emily Ristow in London contributed to this report
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sorry, i posted them out of seqence
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July 14, 2008
We hear that Quentin Tarantino is flying to France today to meet with Brad Pitt about starring in “Inglorious ********,” a World War II movie inspired by spaghetti westerns and “The Dirty Dozen” which begins shooting in September.
Love it When Peeps say How sick They are of The Jolie-Pitts, Yet Here They are..
Pretty Simple, You don’t Like Them, don’t click in Their Link… :wink:
Today Show’s coverage about the jolie-Pitt twins birth
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25671982#25671982
I give up. Four times I have tried to post the link. There is a 7 minute video of Today show coverage at their website. There is talk about People getting the rights and People acting coy and saying it is too soon.
woww, Brad will be very busy. He just has two new babies. He will promote BAR on August and September. He will start shooting The Fighters on October. I don’t know how Quentin Tarantino’s new movie fits Brad’s schedule. We will see. I hope Brad will do Quentin Tarantino’s movie.
Bonjour! Jolie-Pitt Twins Are the Talk of Nice
By Dana Kennedy
Originally posted Monday July 14, 2008 10:30 AM EDT
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Photo by: Alpha / LandovBonjour! Jolie-Pitt Twins Are the Talk of Nice | Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt
Just hours after he cut the umbilical cords of his newborn twins, Brad Pitt welcomed the mayor of Nice and told him, “I’m the happiest father ever.”
In fact, the proud papa kept repeating the phrase over and over again, Mayor Christian Estrosi – who visited Pitt and Angelina Jolie in their hospital room – told the local newspaper Nice-Matin.
The twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, were born Saturday and the mayor came by the next day to sign their birth certificates.
According to the paper, the babies spent Saturday night in Jolie’s room and she took care of them by herself.
The actress’s obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, also said that Knox and Vivienne – who weighed in at 5.03 and 5 lbs., respectively – are in excellent health, but they do need to gain some weight. He told Nice-Matin that Jolie may remain at the hospital another six or seven days while the newborns grow.
While the duration of Jolie’s hospital stay remains to be seen, Mayor Estrosi added that Pitt and Jolie have great affection for Nice and the Fondation Lenval hospital, which overlooks the Mediterranean.
“[Brad] told me we chose one of the best hospitals in the world, one of the best doctors, one of the best medical teams,” he told the paper. “And also the most beautiful bay in the world”.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212274,00.html
Just hours after he cut the umbilical cords of his newborn twins, Brad Pitt welcomed the mayor of Nice and told him, “I’m the happiest father ever.”
In fact, the proud papa kept repeating the phrase over and over again, Mayor Christian Estrosi - who visited Pitt and Angelina Jolie in their hospital room - told the local newspaper Nice-Matin.
The twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, were born Saturday and the mayor came by the next day to sign their birth certificates.
According to the paper, the babies spent Saturday night in Jolie’s room and she took care of them by herself.
The actress’s obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, also said that Knox and Vivienne - who weighed in at 5.03 and 5 lbs., respectively - are in excellent health, but they do need to gain some weight. He told Nice-Matin that Jolie may remain at the hospital another six or seven days while the newborns grow.
While the duration of Jolie’s hospital stay remains to be seen, Mayor Estrosi added that Pitt and Jolie have great affection for Nice and the Fondation Lenval hospital, which overlooks the Mediterranean.
“[Brad] told me we chose one of the best hospitals in the world, one of the best doctors, one of the best medical teams,” he told the paper. “And also the most beautiful bay in the world.”
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# 389 bdj @ 07/14/2008 at 7:46 am
Thanks for the links, BDJ. I found another story on Jossip when I clicked on the link. This one’s about the pix bidding war. This seem more plausible to me than the $15-20MIL figure that’s been thrown around.
http://www.jossip.com/brad-and-angelinas-kids-are-not-worth-20-million-but-nobody-is-going-to-correct-you-20080714/
Brad and Angelina’s Kids Are Not Worth $20 Million, But Nobody Is Going to Correct You
Sorry. No. Absolutely not.
The photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s new kids, Knox and Vivienne, will not be sold with a price tag as high as $20 million, as some outlets are reporting. Sure, “in the celebrity world, it seems to be the double-second coming,” as Darryn Lyons, owner of paparazzi agency Big Pictures, tells it. But the fee that either People or OK! hands over, while enormous, will not even come close to the figures being reported.
Most of the rumor mongering about photo pricing begins with the agencies themselves, whose business interests are served by inflating the sale price with leaked gossip. The tabloids, meanwhile, aren’t entirely innocent in this charade; by complicity going along with, or ignoring, the stories about how much they’re forking over, they benefit from endless free publicity and a brand building exercise that attaches “industry authority” mentality to their magazines.
As celebrity weekly editors who have done this sort of transaction a time or two in the past tell us, the final sale price would “very likely” be in the “nine digits,” meaning $8 or 9 million, not the $15, $22, or — as this story grows into an unstoppable beast — the $50 million figure that someone will inevitably attach to this.
Is Angie’s legal name now Angelina Jolie? I though it was only her acting name but the certificate states Brad’s full name whereas she is still Angelina Jolie not Angelina Jolie Voight.
Fort Knox. Next baby’s name: Laramie.
Congrats to the Jolie Pitts for the new babies, such a blessing for this wonderful family. Can’t wait to see the photos of the baby Knox - nice name btw and baby Vivienne - so elegant. All the best to the whole family.
Knox? I can understand Vivienne but Knox? Its good the whole thing went well though.
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