How much is that paparazzi baby photo worth?

Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, and a then 2 week-old Alexander Pete out on 8/10/07. Naomi let the paparazzi get the first photos of Alexander after he was born. Credit: Fame Pictures. Their friends Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fischer also took this same tactic with their newborn.
The gossip world was waiting for the unveiling of the Jolie-Pitt twins this Sunday, which got me thinking about what a paparazzi picture of a celebrity baby might be worth. Turns out, about $5 million. No wonder that paparazzo risked jail to get the first picture of Halle Berry's daughter.

A PAPARAZZO competing for the first shot of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's baby says the image would be worth up to $5 million.

'A picture like that would be worth four or five million around the world, if you got a nice picture of the baby's face,' said photographer Peter Carrette, one of the many clamouring to get shots of Kidman when she returns to Sydney with Sunday Rose this weekend.

Kidman is due home to reshoot scenes for Baz Luhrmann's Australia. Because she is expected to be bringing Sunday Rose to Australia for the first time, teams of photographers have been camped out at Sydney's private jet base for at least three days.

'I don't think she wants us to get a picture,' Carrette said. 'If they had any sense they'd have a picture taken of her and Keith with the baby ... release it and give all the proceeds to the [Sydney] Children's Hospital at Randwick.'

Carette adds that Nicole could try Cate Blanchett's strategy.

'Cate did the smart thing - I mean Cate produced her baby [newborn Ignatius] at Parliament House two days after it was born in front of all the international media, for nothing,' he said. 'Nobody has doorstepped Cate since - why would you?'

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