Back in the day (lord, I can’t believe it’s been this long), Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had the most expensive “first baby photos” sale of all time. That was in 2006, for daughter Shiloh, and the photos reportedly went for $4 million, which then went into one of the Jolie-Pitt Foundations. Then, in 2008, Angelina gave birth to twins Knox and Vivienne and a new record was reached for those photos: reportedly, $14 million. After that, the market for celebrity baby photos did kind of drop off. Maybe it was the recession, maybe it was just a natural peak-and-decline cycle. Various celebrities were still selling their photos, like Jessica Simpson, Drew Barrymore, Snooki, etc. But those photos barely got a fraction of what Brangelina got.
So, when Hello and People released their joint covers this week – photo exclusives of the Brangelina wedding – many believed that this could be the second wave of big-money exclusives. And People Mag and Hello did shell out a lot of money, but not as much as I thought the wedding pics would get. Radar says the pics went for $5 million!
Something old, something new, something six figures? RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie scored a $5 million payday for making their wedding day public, but the philanthropic couple will be donating the money to charity.
People and Hello! magazine “each paid $2.5 million for a selection of wedding pictures from Brad and Angelina’s wedding,” an insider told Radar. “Hello! has the international rights to the pictures. Before the wedding, Brad and Angie personally chose a photographer they had worked with from Getty Images for the wedding.”
“Brad and Angelina knew there would be tremendous interest in their wedding pictures, and decided to donate the money to their charitable foundation. The couple has done this numerous times in the past,” the source continued. Indeed, Pitt and Jolie were paid $14 million to publish photographs of their twins, Knox and Vivienne in 2008.
[From Radar]
Radar goes on to imply that Brad and Angelina have already put the money into The Maddox Jolie Pitt Foundation, which “supports numerous humanitarian projects around the world ranging from providing legal services to children in war-torn Libya, providing clean, safe drinking water in third world countries, and giving vaccines to children.” Okay. I wonder if Brad is also going to donate a portion of his $13 million paycheck from two days of work on a commercial? As for the figure… I guess that sounds right for where the celebrity-photo-exclusive industry is these days. Brad and Angelina could have given away the photos, but they sold the pics to raise more money for charity, so God bless.
Incidentally, Brad Pitt and some of his Fury costars filmed a short video wishing everybody good luck at the Invictus Games. Brad Pitt and Prince Harry… I would like to see that meeting. Hell, I’d like to see Harry and Angelina Jolie together in a room. I bet he would flirt with her. Would she flirt back? Hm.
Covers courtesy of People and Hello.
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