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Published: August 3, 2008
Updated: 08/02/2008 08:15 pm
■ Exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins fetched $14 million, a person involved in the negotiations told The Associated Press, giving People magazine and a British tabloid joint rights to publish the most expensive celebrity pictures ever sold. The person asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the figure. People will feature twin babies Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon in an issue to hit newsstands Monday, spokeswoman Nancy Valentino said Friday. The money -- more than double the $6 million People paid for Jennifer Lopez's twins on a March cover, according to Forbes -- will go to a foundation created by Pitt and Jolie that largely focuses on helping children around the world.
■ Shia LaBeouf could have a long road ahead of him as he recovers from the accident that crushed his hand, his lawyer says. LaBeouf, 22, was injured in a late-night wreck last Sunday in West Hollywood that flipped his truck. LaBeouf, who stars in Indiana Jones, was cited for drunken driving, but authorities have since said he was not at fault, and that the other driver apparently ran a red light. Michael Norris, LaBeouf's attorney, said in a statement Friday that LaBeouf underwent four hours of surgery.
■ Actress Lindsay Lohan said Friday that police have no business getting involved in her personal life, a day after the police chief explained that the paparazzi were no longer an issue -- in part because Lohan had evidently "gone gay." "Police chiefs shouldn't get involved in everyone else's business when it comes to their personal life. It's inappropriate," Lohan said in a video shot by paparazzi Friday and posted on TMZ.com. In the footage, Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson are trekking through the Los Angeles Airport on their way to catch a flight to Chicago. The day before, Chief William Bratton said that the paparazzi have become less of a problem thanks to Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lohan leading more moderate lifestyles.
■ Traverse City, Mich., is getting ready for Madonna to make an appearance at the Traverse City Film Festival founded by her pal Michael Moore. She was to introduce her documentary, I Am Because We Are, before a screening last night. The movie deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.
■ Author Salman Rushdie has threatened to sue a publisher over a book by a former bodyguard that he said portrays him as cheap, nasty and arrogant and depicts his police guards as "losers" who drank on duty. Rushdie said yesterday that the book, On Her Majesty's Service, contained "a bunch of lies." The book was co-written by Ron Evans, a former Metropolitan Police officer who was one of the team guarding Rushdie while he was under an Iranian-backed death threat for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
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