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People magazine scored the scored the U.S. rights to exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins in a joint deal with the London-based Hello! magazine, and the two will split the bill.

The babies Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon were born one minute apart in Nice, France. Their arrival began much speculation over which celebrity magazine would enter a bidding war for the first photos of the boy and girl.

It is the second time People magazine has won the North American rights to the couple’s exclusive baby pictures in exchange for a hefty donation to charity. The magazine will feature Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon.

Jolie and Pitt sold the rights to the first shots of their daughter Shiloh, now 2 years old, to Getty Images in exchange for a donation to charity in 2005. People reportedly paid $4 million for the U.S. rights to those photos, and London-based Hello! magazine obtained the British rights.

And last year, the couple sold intimate shots of their son Pax, then 3 years old, to Hello! and People. The two magazines are again sharing the rights to the Jolie-Pitt photographs, with each publication contributing to the final price

French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says her husband (President Nicolas Sarkozy) was not upset when he learned of all the nude photos she did during her modeling days.

Carla B says that she would like to be considered as the new Jackie K. France’s first lady, who is still Italian and not yet French, and her principal role model is an American, Jackie Kennedy.

Bruni-Sarkozy told Vanity Fair magazine that she gathered up her past nude shots to show President Nicolas Sarkozy early in their relationship, telling him: “You must know that this is going to come out.

“He said, ‘Oh, I like this one! Can I have a print of it?’ is how the president remarked.

Carla also says that she would never allow herself to be photographed ladling out soup for her husband at the Elysée Palace, as France’s first post-war First Lady, Yvonne de Gaulle, was

On the contrary President Sarkozy remains stubbornly unpopular. The morale of French households slumped last month to its lowest level in more than two decades. The people of France, who were suspicious at first, have come to admire Carla Bruni-Sarkozy – her beauty, her cheek, her self-assurance, her good manners. None of that seems to have helped her husband very much. His popularity rating remains mired in the 30s or low 40s

The first ladies’ club, just a few decades apart

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
Née: Carla Bruni Tedeschi
Aka: Carla Bruni
Born: Turin, Italy, 23 December 1967
Height: 5′ 9″
Designers: Dior, Armani
Nude moment: Photograph taken in 1993 was auctioned for £45,000 last April after a state visit by the Sarkozys to London
Married: Nicolas Sarkozy

Children: One son

She says: “I’m monogamous occasionally, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry. Love lasts a long time, but burning desire, two to three weeks”

They say: “Please Mick, not this one. I think I’m in love.” Eric Clapton on seeing the reaction when Mick Jagger met the then 21-year-old model Bruni

Interestingly Carla Bruni held Italian citizenship until the summer of 2008 and is the heiress to the Italian tire manufacturing company CEAT. It has been claimed that Carla Bruni was involved with Louis Bertignac, Mick Jagger (Jagger’s wife acknowledged his affair with Bruni was a reason for their separation), Eric Clapton, Donald Trump, Léos Carax, Charles Berling, Arno Klarsfeld, Vincent Perez and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Née: Jacqueline Bouvier
Aka: Jackie O
Born: New York, 28 July 1929
Height: 5′ 7″
Designers: Cassini, Halston
Nude moment: Snapped while sunbathing nude in 1975. Hustler magazine’s five-page pictorial sold more than three million copies
Married: John F Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis
Children: One daughter, one son

She said: “There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.”

They said: “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris – and I have enjoyed it.” President John F Kennedy, 1961

Sixty-four-year-old Charles (Gurumukh) Sobhraj Sobhraj, a Vietnamese-Indian by birth and French national by adoption, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed “the Serpent” and “the Bikini killer” for his skills at deception and evasion” has found new love in Nepal, with the ‘Bikini killer’ already planning a wedding after getting ‘engaged’ to a 20-year-old girl in the Himalayan state.
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