Saturday 13 September 2014

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt wedding photos sold for $5m

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reportedly earned as much as $5 million for their wedding pictures and every single penny was donated to charity.

The Hollywood power couple, often hailed for their humanitarian work, exchanged vows in an intimate ceremony before 20 friends on August 23. 39-year old Jolie, married Brad, who has turned 50, in a chapel at their wine-growing estate in France and the newly released wedding pictures were sold to two outlets (HELLO! And People magazines) for $2.5 million each.

Proceeds from the sales were donated to the family's The Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation founded in 2003. The charity, according to its mission statement, is committed to 'eradicating extreme rural poverty, protecting natural resources and conserving wildlife' in Cambodia – where Jolie's eldest son Maddox is from.

Maddox is an adopted child of the couple.

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