Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, France, addressed the assembled press on the steps of the Fondation Lenval hospital this morning to officially announce the birth of Nice’s newest and most famous twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt who were born in his city yesterday. Mayor Estrosi showed off the birth certificates (les acte de naissance) to the press with excitement and pride:
They’re here, officially: On Sunday, Mayor Christian Estrosi of Nice, France, presented one of the birth certificates of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins on the steps of Nice’s Fondation Lenval hospital, where son Knox Léon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline were born Saturday. The typed certificate revealed that Knox was born at 6:27 p.m. on July 12. Sister Vivienne came within a minute of that time, Dr. Michel Sussmann tells PEOPLE. The document also showed the Mayor’s signature, as well as Pitt’s initials, the letters WBP representing his full name, William Bradley Pitt. The mayor entered the hospital at 3:24 p.m. to oversee the signing, telling PEOPLE, “It’s a pride to Nice and all its citizens.” Knox is the 3,702 registered birth certificate in Nice for 2008. In welcoming the twins, Estrosi told reporters, “On behalf of the inhabitants of Nice, I congratulate the happy parents, the most famous couple of the world who have chosen our city for this happy event.”
Clearly, the Mayor of Nice is very excited to claim the Jolie-Pitt twins as his own. After the jump, check out a close up of Knox Léon‘s birth certificate …
Of course, the document is en française but you can still make out some of the information even if you can’t read French. It’s a happy day in Nice, France today … congrats again to the happy family AND the happy city those chosen babies were born in ;)
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The million dollar babies finally arrived! Congrats to the happy parents! By the way, it’s “en français”.
Umm, since they were born in France, doesn’t that make their birthday July 13th and not July 12th?
Aw, congrats to Brad and Angelina.
And in response to katie; according to the birth certificate (assuming I can still read French, its been like 4 years since I last studied it). They were born on the 12th at 6:27 PM which would make it between 9:30 and 12:30 US time (still on the 12th), the time depending on what time zone you live in. I think that’s right at least.
Knox is the brand of jello I used to use to keep up my hair for synchronized swimming competitions…..
hmmm i wonder if he had permission to do this?? it seems kinda weird that he would be exploiting the kids for his own personal attention???
Euucckk. Is it just me or does this all seem so tacky? These kids have barely been in the world 48 hours!
um..is it supposed to show angelina’s home address like this? i’m sure it’s already known..but still. ack.
So pathetic. Millions of kids are born each day, and it’s like these kids are christ incarnate or something. fuck off already.
I agree with June. Finally they are born so the mayor of Nice can shut the hell up.
On another note, Vivienne Marcheline sounds so pretty, but Knox? WTF?Sounds maybe like a country singer.
obvs they did not publish their real home address on the birth certificates. 9100 wilshire is their manager’s office (Grant, Tani, Barash, & Altman).
Finally it’s over. Now we have to “anticipate” the pictures…I can hardly wait *said with so much sarcasm*.
Brad is hot. I saw him on a millionaire&celeb dating site rich ki ss.c om last week. It seems he is turning to online scene for true love.
For gods sake – you would think a royal birth just happened. All this anticipation and false announcements! Am I the only one who thinks this is f*cked up? These kids do not stand a chance at a happy private life. I blame the PITS for not putting the brakes on this media frenzy and requesting that the press chill out and let their kids have some space! It’s just WRONG!
I think that the family can maintain themselves. The family is in the hospital and the press is with the mayor. Sure these kids aren’t going to have a normal life. Their parent are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie! However they are way more protective than other parents. Ange has even said in an interview that she knows how to use a gun and is not afraid to use it if someone gets to close to her kids. She is the mother bear, she will protect her cubs.
I commend this beautiful for some of the most unique names they’ve picked for their childrens. I especially fancy the latest -Vivienne Marcheline – SO SO Tres Chic! A star is born.
Angelina seems to pic some hard core names for her boys such as Maddox, Knox, etc…
she likes the X’s on her boys’ names…Maddox. Pax. Knox. XXX?
“She is the mother bear, she will protect her cubs.” Come on Anna -that makes me want to vom! She parades her children regularly in the media and has the deal to the baby pics done and dusted minutes out of the womb. So classy. What happened to the days of a simple statement from the father “Mother and babe(s) doing well”, and giving the family a little bit of time to settle and bond. They can’t complain about the feverishness as they created it!
I don’t really see this as Brad & Angelina “parading” the kids around … it’s the mayor and their doctor who seem to be doing most of the blabbing!
It’s not the couple’s fault that the paparazzi & press are so excited about this. Really, the fact that they DON’T regularly parade their family around is what makes them so enticing to the tabloids & celebrity sites … they’re perceived as hidden treasure.
Possible future boy names: Felix, Jax, Styx (heh…).
Oh please lisa make me GAG! Hidden treasures my ass. Their damn Rainbow Brite Bunch are paraded all over the world, we see tons of pics of them.
I am with Joanne, the media & loony Pitt fans act like these twins are the future king & queen of the world. Shut it already. I can’t wait to these child collecting freaks break up. Since they BOTH always screw their co-stars it’s only a matter of time, THANK GOD!!
im not sure why they picked the names that they did ,,, but they are B-A-D!!
Knox …. really ??
Vivienne … man…
what ever happend to the simple names