( CNN ) -- Pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie 's newborn twins have been published for the first time after a magazine bidding war which news agencies claim topped $ 14 million . Hola ! magazine , the Spanish sister publication to Hello ! , has also published images of the Jolie-Pitt twins . Hello ! magazine , which won international rights to the images , and People magazine , which took U.S. rights , published the photographs in their latest editions , which hit newsstands Monday . The two publications , which have previously secured image rights to the couple 's elder children , are believed to have shared the costs , The Associated Press reported over the weekend . The agency quoted an unnamed source , not authorized to speak about the deal , as saying the pictures had fetched $ 14 million . The images show the couple , newborns Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline and the rest of the Jolie-Pitt family -- Maddox , 7 , Pax , 4 , Zahara , 3 , and Shiloh , 2 . The twins were born by Cesarian section at the Lenval hospital in the French Riviera resort of Nice on July 12 . Hello ! magazine , which heralds its coverage as the `` biggest exclusive of the year , '' devotes 17 pages of coverage to the twins ' arrival . In an interview published in the magazine , Jolie says : `` Wanting a big family is one of the things that brought Brad and I together . '' Pitt adds : `` When Ange and I were told we were having twins we burst into hysterics ... We did n't see this one coming . '' Watch why the photos went for so much money » . Larry Hackett , the managing editor of People said that it was `` thrilled '' to have carried the images . People , like CNN , is owned by Time Warner . Jonathan Klein , co-founder and CEO of Getty Images , which organized the photo shoot , said that all the proceeds would go toward the Jolie-Pitt Foundation , which earlier this year donated $ 1 million to help children in Iraq . Copyright 2008 CNN . All rights reserved.This material may not be published , broadcast , rewritten , or redistributed . Associated Press contributed to this report .
They publish images of Angelina Jolie - Brad Pitt twins for the first time . AP : Rights to images acquired after $ 14 M joint investment by Hello ! and People magazine . Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon born July 12 in Nice , southern France .