Nice-Matin is handed Jolie scoop
The world’s entertainment press tripped over themselves, making embarrassing errors along the way, as they fought to be first to report the biggest celebrity story of the year: the birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins.
In the end, the scoop went to a provincial French newspaper.
“It was Brad Pitt who chose to give the scoop to Nice-Matin,” said assistant editor in chief Olivier Biscaye. “He said to the doctor that the local media should be the first informed about the birth.”
Nice-Matin put Jean-Francois Roubaud, one of its most experienced reporters, on the story. Roubaud was given a heads-up that the Cesarean section was going to be performed 30 minutes before Jolie went in for the delivery Saturday evening.
The birth certificates show that Knox Leon was born at 6:27 p.m. and his sister, Vivienne Marcheline, a minute later.
Nice-Matin broke the story when it published news of the births on its website at 2 a.m. Sunday, four hours before the print version hit the newsstands.
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