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BIRTH OF ANGELINA'S TWINS DENIED

Conflicting reports on whether Angelina Jolie has given birth

Saturday May 31,2008

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie began settling into a villa in the south of France as a report claiming the couple's twins had been born was denied.

Entertainment Tonight first reported on its website that Angelina Jolie had given birth in France.

Then People magazine posted a story online saying that Jolie had not given birth, and E! and US Weekly followed with their own stories saying the babies remained unborn. All of the reports cited anonymous sources.

Brad Pitt's manager, Cynthia Pett-Dante, later said: "We have no comment except the story is not true."

Entertainment Tonight said it stood by its story, with host Mary Hart saying that "a source who says she was inside the delivery room tells us, yes, the babies were born and, yes, mother and babies are fine".

Jolie has said previously that her twins are due in August. She and Pitt have four other children, six-year-old Maddox, four-year-old Pax and three-year-old Zahara, who are adopted, and two-year-old Shiloh.

In southern France, where locals say the couple recently moved, officials at the Etoile Maternite Catholique de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, one of the region's top maternity clinics, said that Jolie had not been there and did not appear to be due to arrive.

Privacy rules about health matters are extremely strict in France.

The pair recently moved into the Miraval Estate villa in the French hamlet of Correns in the Provence region, according to the mayor and a local inn owner.

Pitt and Jolie may be Miraval's first movie stars in residence, but Miraval has seen its share of rock stars. The estate includes a studio which has hosted the likes of Sting, the Cranberries and Pink Floyd, who recorded tracks for The Wall album there.