Posted on 12/29/2008 7:37:14 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin confirmed that her teenage daughter, Bristol, and boyfriend Levi Johnston were expecting a baby, the celebrity weeklies knew that the first photos of the Palin-Johnston baby would incite a bidding war. Baby Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, born Dec. 28, proved those editors right.
According to one source, bidding for the baby photos began at $100,000. People won out in the end, but In Touch was the only other weekly to make serious bids, according to several sources involved in the process. The price didn't soar immediately, according to the sources, because Sarah Palin stories just didn’t sell all that well for the weeklies on newsstands.
“Sarah was on the cover of People, Us Weekly, and OK! the same week, and really only People saw a bump in sales," says a source.
The drug-related arrest of Johnston's mother, however, caused the price tag for the photos to go up.
“The bidding started well before the baby was born, but once Levi’s mom was arrested — well, then you had a story,” says one editor.
As for how much teen parents Bristol and Levi made from the deal — most estimates hover around the $300,000 range (none of the magazines would confirm the exact figure in the end, which is standard).
No word on whether the money will go to charity, as sometimes happens in a celeb baby deal.
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Nope, sounds like you are having a bad night and decided to take it out on someone here.
Are you on crack, seriously, is there something wrong with you mentally, here is suggestion for you, read my posts, yeah all of them, then come back and suggest that I am a troll, personally I think you are one, I think you are here to cause problems, I’m not gonna fall for your BS
Just some fool trying to cause problems, I’m not concerned about it at all, I know what I am, I don’t have to prove myself to some stranger that I have never met
You are way off base.
I live in the Mat-Su valley where the Palins’s live. Forget the publicity and media whores. This is shameful. They plan to get married “next year”? Why not before the baby is born and make him a legitimate child? If these folks intended to get married and give this child a name why have they not done it before the baby was born? I hate to say it but this is how the “valley trash” moniker got started.
I think we all have our work cut out for us, it’s gonna be a long 4 years, and it’s not gonna be pretty, I will just pray and hope for the best
Carolyn, check out his FReeper homepage. It'll give you the warm fuzzies.
I did... thought I would check some of his posts as well, was just headed that direction.
“Sarah was on the cover of People, Us Weekly, and OK! the same week, and really only People saw a bump in sales," says a source.
Negative, slanderous stories of Sarah Palin don't sell. People did OK; must have been fair. I seriously can't believe that the newsstands haven't been full of Palin covers. The media is missing a great opportunity, if only they could get their bias out of the way.
Does anyone else see the irony? Every media outlet in the world will obtain a copy of Tripp Johnston’s birth certificate. But the so-called President-elect’s birth certificate is of no interest to the MSM or the kangaroo courts of this nation.
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Yeah I was thinking about that. This baby will have a legit birth certificate but the guy that a bunch of morons put in the White House, well, we can’t find his real one. How ironic how the media works, they want to slander some innocent child with lies but they won’t investigate the guy running for the highest position in the land. Truly scary
We're ALL trolls!
That is interesting, isn’t it. Same as how Caroline Kennedy is qualified to be senator and Palin is disqualfied to be vice president.
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WOW, the Flight 93 comment was just WOW, I have no words for that kind of comment. Thanks for the link, now I know what kind of “person” we are dealing with here.
~LOL~ You got it! We support Palin and most don’t seem to belong to the correct religion ergo we all belong on DU.
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