London
(Reuters):
The
celebrity
magazine
Hello!
has
launched
legal
action
against
Internet
sites
that
printed
a
leaked
exclusive
shot
of
Angelina
Jolie
and
Brad
Pitt
with
their
infant
daughter.
Just
as
People
magazine
announced
it
had
landed
exclusive
North
American
rights
to
the
first
pictures
of
the
baby,
an
image
of
the
newborn
Shiloh
Nouvel
Jolie-Pitt
and
her
parents
popped
up
on
at
least
two
Web
sites
as
the
cover
shot
for
Hello!
''We
were
very
shocked
and
horrified
to
see
that
this
embargo
has
been
breached,''
Juliet
Herd
feature
editor
for
Hello!
Magazine,
which
sells
in
Britain,
Spain,
Turkey,
Russia,
Dubai,
Thailand
and
Greece,
told
Reuters
yesterday.
''Hello!
is
taking
legal
action
around
the
world
to
stop
Internet
sites
and
everyone
else
who
may
seek
to
publish,''
she
said.
''We
are
sending
out
legal
'Cease
and
Desist'
letters
to
each
of
these
sites.''
''We
have
absolutely
no
idea
how
the
picture
was
leaked.''
The
baby
was
born
on
May
27
in
a
hospital
in
the
southern
African
nation
of
Namibia
where
an
army
of
paparazzi
had
descended,
hoping
to
capture
their
own
photos
of
the
child.
Yesterday,
Pitt
and
Jolie
finally
emerged
from
seclusion
to
speak
to
a
select
group
of
journalists
in
the
west
coast
tourist
town
of
Swakopmund.
''We
are
very
grateful
to
the
people
of
Namibia
for
making
our
time
so
special
...
we
could
not
have
picked
a
better
place
to
have
our
child,''
Jolie
said
at
the
briefing,
where
they
laughed
off
talk
of
an
imminent
wedding.
They
announced
on
Monday
that
they
had
agreed
to
let
photo
agency
Getty
Images
market
pictures
of
their
newborn
with
all
proceeds
going
to
help
the
less
fortunate.
Experts
said
worldwide
rights
to
the
pictures
could
sell
for
anywhere
from
5
million
dollars
to
7
million
dollars.
The
picture
surfaced
on
celebrity-lampooning
Defamer.com
(http://www.defamer.com)
and
the
LiveJournal
gossip
blog
(http://community.livejournal).
Defamer.com,
whose
image
portrays
the
baby
in
a
golden
glow,
said:
''Mere
moments
after
staring
upon
the
Chosen
One's
image,
we
felt
as
if
we
were
bathed
in
the
same
golden
light
that
surrounds
the
infant's
still
frail
form.''
Alison
Crombie,
spokeswoman
in
London
for
Getty
Images,
said:
''Our
legal
team
are
looking
into
it
and
we
will
take
it
from
there.
But
I
really
don't
think
it
will
devalue
the
pictures
as
everyone
is
dying
to
see
the
full
set.''
For
celebrity
magazines
and
photo
agencies,
there
is
increasingly
cut-throat
competition
to
land
exclusives
and
sate
the
appetite
of
readers
obsessed
by
the
lives
of
the
stars.
Prices
have
gone
through
the
roof
in
the
past
two
or
three
years
and
Alan
Williams,
head
of
celebrity
agency
Big
Pictures,
told
Reuters:
''The
first
pictures
of
Brad
and
Angelina
with
the
baby
are
a
massive
opportunity.''