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Bid Hits $15M for Brangelina Twin Pics

People , OK ! magazines go to eight digits to seal first snaps of babies

(Newser) - They’re not even born (or are they?), but the twins on the way for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are already worth $15 million—and counting. A bidding war has broken out between OK! and People magazines for the first exclusive photos of children, the Daily Mail reports. An...

Aussie Hicks May Get Rich on Gitmo Story

Released prisoner could get $1M for TV, book, magazine rights

(Newser) - A worldwide media bidding war has erupted for rights to the story of Australian David Hicks, the only Guantanamo prisoner convicted of terrorism charges, who was released a month ago from an Australian prison. If Hicks sells his story, he would  violate Australian proceeds-of-crime laws, but his advisers are resolved...

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