Shiloh's Storksak
How does Brad Pitt tote those diapers and bottles around - yet still maintain his cool? Storksak was his answer.
British company Storksak designs high-end diaper bags for parents that are functional but don't sacrifice fashion. Storksak diaper bags even fit laptop computers for those working parents on the go.
Police Raids Over Jolie-Pitt Baby Shower
It's a bizarre story that starts in Namibia, where the shower was thrown. James Haven, Jolie's brother, took a number of pictures in Namibia. When he returned to L.A., his camera broke so he took it to Best Buy where the camera was purchased, and asked them to fix it under the warranty. Best Buy sent the camera to Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Connecticut.
Sources tell TMZ that two employees at Precision, Bill Keyes and Adam Beckwith, discovered the pictures in the digital camera. We're told that Keyes told authorities that Beckwith downloaded the photos.
Keyes mother, Madelon, told TMZ that her 36-year-old son was excited, showed her the pictures and sent an email to someone in California. Sources say the email may have been an attempt to sell the photos. Madelon Keyes told TMZ, "I don't think he would do something like that."
A sergeant from the Westfield Police Department confirmed with TMZ that authorities searched Keyes' home and seized his computer. The sergeant also said a search warrant was executed at Precision Camera and Video Repair and the actual camera that took the pictures was also seized.
Brad Flees From Paparazzi
Reese and Ryan's night out puts a kink in Brad Pitt's dinner plans.
Last week photogs caught Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe having an early dinner at LA restaurant The Brentwood.
TMZ has learned that moments after the A-list couple left, a solo Mr. Pitt pulled up to the restaurant's valet station for his dinner with CAA uber-agent Bryan Lourd. Upon noticing the throngs of paparazzi, and thinking they were there for him, Pitt fled the scene faster than Lindsay Lohan at a crash site.
With the paparazzi following him everywhere from Malibu to Namibia, if Brad wants a photog-free meal his only option left these days may be the moon. And even that's debatable.
Stolen Photos of Pitt/Jolie Baby Shower
Lawyers for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sent an email to various media outlets, including TMZ, informing them that "a digital memory card containing a number of personal copyright protected photographs" of Brad, Angelina and their children have been stolen and offered for sale.
The photos, taken in Namibia, "include images from a private baby shower."
The email, written by a lawyer for the powerhouse law firm of Lavely & Singer, threatens that anyone who publishes the photos "will be liable for substantial compensatory damages, punitive damages, and injunctive relief."
Pitt/Jolie Legal Threat
Re: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt/Stolen Photos
Our File No.: 2583-20
Dear Sir/Madam:
Recently, a digital memory card containing a number of personal copyright protected photographs of our clients was stolen. The police are currently investigating this matter. The photos depict, among other things, private moments and images of our clients and/or their minor children, taken in Namibia, including images from a private baby shower (the "Stolen Photos"). It is obvious to anyone viewing the Stolen Photos that they were taken in private, on private property and that they could only have been taken by our clients and/or a family member, who own all right title and interest thereto.
We understand that the person who stole the Stolen Photos, or an accomplice, has been offering them for sale to the various media outlets and celebrity content websites, and may have offered the Stolen Photos to you.
This letter is to provide you with notice that the Stolen Photos are copyright protected, to which my clients own right and title thereto. Any unauthorized publication, reproduction or dissemination of the Stolen Photos constitutes an infringement of my clients' copyrights in violation of the U.S. Copyright Act, Title 17 of the United States Code Section 101, et seq., and exposes you, and anyone else acting in concert with you, to civil liability, damages, injunctive relief and reimbursement of all attorneys' fees and costs incurred by my clients in connection with any copyright infringement action. Furthermore, if any monies are paid for the purchase of the Stolen Photos, you will be engaged in the purchase of stolen property.
In addition, under the circumstances that the Stolen Photos were taken, namely, at private and personal events on private property, my clients had a reasonable expectation of enjoying total privacy. The publication of the photos would therefore constitute a unlawful invasion and violation of my clients' right of privacy and would also be an unauthorized commercial appropriation of their names, likenesses and personas.
Anyone who publishes, disseminates, displays or otherwise exploits the Stolen Photos will be liable for substantial compensatory damages, punitive damages, and injunctive relief. If you publish or disseminate and of the Stolen Photos, our clients will take further legal action to protect their rights, including by the filing of a lawsuit seeking compensatory and punitive damages, statutory damages for copyright violations, and attorneys' fees.
On behalf of our clients, we request as follows:
1. If you or any of your employees or agents are/have been approached and offered the right to acquire and publish any of the Photos, or are approached in any way with regard to the Photos, we ask that you immediately contact either myself or Evan Spiegel at Lavely & Singer at (310) 556-3501 x 238 or 247, so that the matter may be referred to the criminal authorities; and
2. That you cease and desist from exploiting, publishing, posting, distributing, or
otherwise using or disseminating (with or without monetary charge) any of the Stolen Photos, through any venue or medium, including but not limited to on your website.
Please govern yourself accordingly.
This letter does not purport to constitute a complete or exhaustive statement of all of our clients' rights, contentions or legal theories. Nothing contained herein is intended as, nor should it be deemed to constitute, a waiver or relinquishment of any of our clients' rights or remedies, whether legal or equitable, all of which are hereby expressly reserved.
Sincerely,
[via e-mail] YAEL E. HOLTKAMP For
LAVELY & SINGER
PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
cc: Mr. Brad Pitt
Ms. Angelina Jolie
Ms. Cynthia Pett-Dante
Ms. Cindy Guagenti
Jon Liebman, Esq.
Robert Offer, Esq.
Mr. Geyer Kosinski
John H. Lavely, Jr, Esq.
Martin D. Singer, Esq.
Evan N. Spiegel, Esq.
2583-20\Let\YEH-Stolen Photos 062406 © Lavely & Singer, P.C. 2006
Paparazzi Gone Wild
Paparazzi are part of the Hollywood game. If you have a new project to plug they can be your best friend, but try and hide a new relationship or a baby bump and they can become your worst enemy.
With millions of bucks on the line, photographers will stop at next to nothing to get the money shot. From climbing trees to swarming celebs, TMZ has video evidence of what happens when the paparazzi goes wild.
Brangelina Paparazzo Arrested
TMZ has learned that a paparazzo was arrested in Malibu Thursday after allegedly jumping the fence at a daycare center that Maddox was attending.
Sources tell us that Clint Brewer jumped the fence just before 10:30 a.m., shortly after Pitt dropped the child off. We're told staff from the daycare center made a citizen's arrest for trespassing. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department dispatched deputies and took Brewer, 25, to the Lost Hills station, where he is being held on $1,000 bail.
The famous family returned to Malibu two weeks ago from Namibia after the birth of the couple's daughter, Shiloh. Since then, the paparazzi has overtaken the area. When Angelina took the baby to a home in Beverly Hills recently, paparazzi were hanging in trees, trying to get a shot.
We're told 4-year-old Maddox Jolie-Pitt was never in danger.
Pitt's security chief, Rich Malchar, issued this statement: "School officials and myself feel that some of these paparazzi are like predators who will recklessly take and sell photos of innocent children for money."
UPDATE: Brewer was released from custody tonight. TMZ was there as the accused paparazzo walked out of the Lost Hills station. In a ironic twist, Brewer covered his face when he saw our camera and went back inside the sherrifs station to wait for his ride.
Brangelina Guilts Hollywood Into Giving
It's the Brangelina charity effect.
Thanks to the media mileage Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have wrung out of their Africa charity work, celebrities today are falling over themselves to show the world how public spirited they are.
Latest example: Nicole Kidman, who spent the days before her wedding to crooner Keith Urban visiting Sydney's Children's Hospital with her own kids. The happy couple is reportedly asking guests to donate to charity rather then buy gifts.
In addition, Cher in recent days has drummed up money for troop helmets in Iraq, while K-Fed has thrown his substantial celebrity weight behind the fate of ... pennies.
While the new round of celeb heart pouring is an outgrowth of Brangelina's work in Africa, other celebs have been big in the free-money circuit for years. Big donators include: Oprah Winfrey, who gave $52 million in 2005 to charity; Sandra Bullock, who donated $1 million twice, once to the Red Cross following 9/11 and the second to Tsunami Relief; and Paul Newman, who has donated nearly $200 million in after-tax profits of his "Newmans Own" products. There's also Bono who, in our opinion, should be reaching sainthood by the end of the week.
Anderson -- The Next Babwa With Cred
The landscape of TV news changed last night.
Anderson Cooper is now positioned to possibly become the dominant personality when it comes to the big "get." The importance of his interview with Angelina Joile cannot be overstated. She is probably the most sought after celebrity in the world. Rest assured, Barbara and Diane were salivating to get this one.
Yet it was Cooper who scored, and I can tell you he did not even seek Joile out -- she came to him. I'm told by unimpeachable sources that the reports that CNN paid for the interview are absolutely bogus. It was Angelina who wanted Anderson.
Cooper is already loved by his CNN bosses, but more significant is that he will now have a platform as a special correspondent on "60 Minutes." There's no doubt in my mind -- the execs at "60 Minutes" are going nuts today, knowing that Anderson can land the big ones.
In this business, success begets success. Anderson's hugely successful interview will become a calling card of sorts. Hey, if it's good enough for Angelina..... But maybe even more significant, I can see other stars and their reps seeking him out. He doesn't have the tabloid tinge that has permanently marked Barbara and Diane. He's smart, fair and sitting for an interview with him creates an air of respectability for the stars. He could easily become "60 Minutes'" secret weapon.
I really like Anderson. I know him casually, mostly from doing his show. From what I see, he's a genuinely nice, self-effacing, humble guy. He certainly doesn't cop the "I'm bigger than the people I interview" attitude. If he plays his cards right, Anderson could become the top dog in "gets," and I'm thinking that's gonna happen.
Angelina Imparts Wisdom, Eschews Gum
The primary takeaway for anyone who actually sat through the duration of last night's two-hour-long, heavily-promoted Anderson Cooper-Angelina Jolie sit-down on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" was this: There are places in the world where things are much, much worse than they are here.
But beyond that commonplace, which many of us learned watching late-night infomercials in the 1980s, the interview will probably be noted by most viewers for what Angelina Jolie did not do, by comparison with the tragic, disheveled, Southern-fried cri de coeur performance that Britney Spears gave alongside Matt Lauer last week on NBC's "Dateline."
Namibia Alert -- Fire Sale on Nose Jobs
Namibia is all the rage these days. Angelina and Brad put the country on the map. It seems it's a great place to give birth.
TMZ did some digging and found that birth is but the beginning of a bargain basement medical journey. If baby Shiloh isn't as flawless as her parents, she may want to return home for some "improvements."
A Namibian plastic surgeon told TMZ that she'll perform rhinoplasty -- a nose job -- for the incredible rate of $600. Compare that to the going rate in Beverly Hills, which often ranges betwen $8,000 and $9,000.
If Shiloh decides to go into show biz and goes the way of so many young starlets, get this -- a Namibian boob job is $3,600. In Beverly Hills, the cost is usually twice that or more.
FYI -- You can fly to the capitol, Windhoek, Namibia from the U.S. on South African Airways. Advance purchase is advised -- otherwise, your savings will be eaten up.
The Other Man in Angelina's Life
Jolie Planning to Adopt Another Child
(AP) - Angelina Jolie says she and Brad Pitt, who have three children including a newborn daughter, are planning to adopt another child.
"Next, we'll adopt," Jolie tells CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview to air Tuesday on "Anderson Cooper 360" (10 p.m. EDT).
Jolie, 31, gave birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt in Namibia last month. The couple have two older children, 16-month-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia, and 4-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia.
"We don't know which _ which country. But we're looking at different countries," the actress tells Cooper. "And we're _ I'm just _ it's gonna be the balance of what would be best for Mad and for Z right now. It's, you know, another boy, another girl, which country, which race would fit best with the kids."
Both Maddox and Zahara's surnames have been legally changed to Jolie-Pitt after Pitt, 42, announced his intention to adopt the children.
The Jolie interview will air Tuesday as part of CNN's entire day of programming devoted to World Refugee Day.
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Paparazzi All Over Shiloh's Every Move
Shiloh's First Mink
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Exclusive: Inside Brangelina's Malibu Pad
They have installed a massive drape on the outside of the house that wraps around all four bedrooms. They did not, however, have drapes installed in the living room and other common areas, leaving those portions of the house exposed to paparazzi.
My sources say the property has been heavily re-landscaped with new bushy plants so no one can see in from adjoining homes and hillsides.
The nagging problem is the Pacific Ocean. Paparazzi still have a clear shot if they brave the water in kayaks and small boats.
Finally, Brad is uncharacteristically happy with the work done on the home. Typically, when he's away during construction, he will make significant changes upon his return. No so this time. It seems the priority is the baby.