Shiloh to make big bucks
2006-06-06 08:08
New York - A week after her birth was announced to a waiting world, the infant daughter of Hollywood power couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is already trading her instant celebrity for charity dollars.
The first pictures of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt - following a top secret photo shoot at the couple's fortress hideaway in Namibia - are to be licensed worldwide by Getty Images, with all the profits going to charity, the photo agency said.
"The photo shoot took place over the weekend, but I can't give you any more details about that," Getty spokesperson Deb Trevino said on Monday, adding that exclusive deals had already been worked out with a number of publications.
Shiloh was born on the night of May 27 near Swakopmund, some 400 kilometres from the Namibian capital of Windhoek.
Pitt, Jolie and their two adopted children had checked into a beach resort near Swakopmund in early April - their bodyguards and Namibian police shielding them from the ever-present paparazzi.
It was not immediately clear which charities might benefit from Shiloh's first baby photos but, in a joint statement, Pitt and Jolie highlighted the high rate of child mortality in poor nations.
"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," the statement said.
"These mothers and children can be saved, but only if governments around the world make it a priority," it added.