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PARIS (July 19) - Angelina Jolie has left the building. Oh, and so have the twins.

Before dawn Saturday, the Hollywood superstar and her newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a week ago, the hospital said in a statement.

"The mother and her babies are doing very well," reported the Fondation Lenval hospital, located in the southern Mediterranean city of Nice.

Jolie slipped out at 4 a.m. Saturday with the twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, deftly evading most of the paparazzi who have followed the family for months in southern France, ever since Jolie arrived for the Cannes film festival in May. It was not immediately clear if the twins' father, actor Brad Pitt, was with them.

AP Television cameras outside the hospital filmed a large white van with tinted windows leaving one of the hospital's back entrances at that time. No other vehicles left the hospital for the next several hours.

Jolie, 33, checked into the hospital on July 2 and delivered the babies by Cesarian section ten days later. Knox Leon weighed 5.03 pounds and the Vivienne Marcheline 5 pounds.

Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told reporters after the birth that the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie's side during the delivery, which he said had been pushed up from its originally planned date "for medical reasons" so the babies could be born "in the best conditions."

The Brangelina Clan

Dr. Michel Sussmann, Angelina Jolie's obstetrician at the Lenval Hospital in Nice, delivered twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline on Saturday. Sussman said the entire Pitt-Jolie clan "are doing marvelously well." He also said the date of the births had been moved up to take advantage of "the best conditions," but didn't go into further details.

Lionel Cironneau, AP

After an evening of conflicting reports -- twin girls, a boy and a girl, scheduled for Tuesday, nothing's going on -- once official word came, it didn't take long for a television crew to set up outside of the Lenval Hospital. Now the speculation focuses on who paid just how much for the first photos of the twins.

Lionel Cironneau, AP

Photos of Shiloh, Pitt and Jolie's first biological child together reportedly fetched more than $10 million, with the proceeds going to charity.

James Devaney, WireImage.com

Maddox, the oldest child of the Pitt-Jolie family visited his mother at Lenval on July 5, just a few days after her admittance.

Eric Gailard, Reuters

Pitt leaves the Lenval Hospital in Nice, France on July 2, a day after Jolie had checked in.

Claude Paris, AP

Nurses are seen at the Lenval Hospital. "There's no urgency. It's been planned for a long time," said Nadine Bauer, a hospital spokeswoman about Jolie checking in. "She's very well. Everything is fine."

Lionel Cironneau, AP

Room With a View: The Lenval Hospital sits on the sea and specializes in materity care.

Lionel Cironneau, AP

There was a bit of scandal surrounding the birth of the twins. On May 30, 'Entertainment Tonight' reported that Jolie, here with Brad Pitt on May 20 at the Cannes Film Festival, had already given birth but reps for both stars quickly denied it. However, 'ET' continued to stand by its story.

Anne-Christine Poujoulat, AFP/Getty Images

Jolie, normally very secretive about her pregnancy, was given a huge suprise when her 'Kung Fu' panda co-star Jack Black let it slip that she was giving birth to twins during an interview with 'Access Hollywood.'

Access Hollywood

"(You'll) have as many as (the) 'Brady Bunch' when you have these," he said to the actress who then confirmed the news to interviewer Natalie Morales.

Access Hollywood

The Jolie-Pitt clan had rented four rooms on the fifth floor of the maternity ward of the Lenval hospital, appropriately located on Nice's beach-front California Avenue. The hospital had treated the mirrored blue windows of Jolie's room, which looked out the Mediterranean, with a special material that blocked telephoto lenses from peering in.

Jolie managed to check into the hospital unobserved, reportedly arriving by helicopter on the hospital's rooftop helipad. That fueled rumors she would also leave the clinic by helicopter,

In its statement, the Fondation Lenval thanked the Jolie-Pitts for choosing its hospital. It also thanked the hospital staff "for the attention and care they paid to the family" and the "journalists around the hospital who did their best to respect their privacy."

The Nice-Matin newspaper has reported that an unnamed U.S. publication has paid $11 million for exclusive rights to the first photos of the Jolie-Pitt twins and that the proceeds will go to charity.

Jolie and Pitt have four other children — Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2. Before Jolie checked into the hospital in Nice, the family set up a household in Correns, 60 miles away.

Jolie's latest film, the thriller "Wanted" with James McAvoy, has racked up $112 million in its first three weeks in the United States. The action flick — about a secret society of assassins stars Jolie as a gun-toting sexpot — opened last week in France.

The new mother also stars in director Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," a 1930s-era drama about a kidnapping that premiered at Cannes this year. Jolie also did voiceovers for the animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda," which has brought in over $200 million this summer in U.S. ticket sales alone.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.

2008-07-19 09:17:20

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