Hollywood royalty couples Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are taking bids from publications interested in buying exclusive rights to pictures of their private lives, according to gossip columnist Jeannette Walls, reported Mr.Showbiz.com.
Douglas and Zeta-Jones are in the process of selling photos of their 1-month-old baby boy, Dylan Michael, to English tabloid OK! Magazine. Walls reports that the first-look photos of Dylan and his famed Douglas family dimple may cost OK! approximately $1 million.
Meanwhile, the two are allegedly also putting an estimated $2 million price tag on photos of their upcoming nuptials.
OK! Magazine’s editor, Martin Townsend, admitted to Walls that his magazine is indeed negotiating an exclusive photo rights deal. “It’s perfectly normal here in England for celebrities to sell photos of their special occasions,” Townsend said. “It’s like showing off your baby’s photos in your wallet.”
However, Douglas’ rep denies he’s handling the possible sale of negatives from the pair’s upcoming marriage ceremony, but did say that he thinks “it’s a good idea to sell the wedding photos and get them out there.”
Douglas and Zeta-Jones got engaged nearly a year after they met, on New Year’s Eve 2000. No date has been set for their marriage, though it’s rumored that they are eyeing a November date at a luxurious Los Angeles-area hotel.
The couple’s baby is the first for 30-year-old Welsh actress Zeta-Jones. Douglas, 55, has an adult son, Cameron, from his first marriage, to Diandra Douglas – Albawaba.com.
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