Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Baby Photos Hit Newsstands  6/9/06

The first pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's new baby, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, hit newsstands worldwide today (08JUN06).

The pictures appear in the new issues of US People magazine, Hello! in the UK and New Idea in Australia, after what Hello! features editor Juliet Herd calls "a fierce bidding war".

According to People managing editor Larry Hackett, "They're incredibly tender intimate moments of a mother and father with their newborn - they're not at all glamorous."

The pictures were taken a week after the baby's 27 May (06) birth by the same Getty Images photographer who shot the family in the Namibian desert on 19 April (06).

According to Herd, the couple had "the final decision" over which magazines would get the photos because "they had clear ideas of where they wanted to see the pictures run, to do them justice and to know that the story is being treated with due respect."

Copies of the Hello! cover were leaked online on Tuesday (06JUN06), prompting the magazine's legal team to order the websites to remove the images.

Herd confirms, "It was the real cover, and we don't know how it leaked."

The photos were taken at the Burning Shore hotel in Namibia where the couple have been staying. The photographer has not been identified.

The pictures are so coveted that People is raising its cover price to $3.99 (#2.20), just for the issue.

People paid an estimated $4.1 for the images, which the celebrity couple are donating to as-yet-unnamed charities.