Celebrity photos, from babies and breakups, to weddings and wild flings, have long generated huge price tags.
Last year, Julia Roberts and her photographer husband, Danny Moder, sold a family photo to People for a reported $150,000. The money was donated to an environmental group. The first photo of Britney Spears' baby captured $500,000. The proceeds were given to a Hurricane Katrina charity.
A photo of Apple, the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, sold for $125,000.Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas sold the first photo from their wedding for more than $1.6 million.
The most profitable paparazzi photos to date are of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed 10 days before they died. The photos made more than $500,000.
The photo of presidential front-runner Gary Hart with then-mistress Donna Rice perched in his lap went for $75,000. The famous 1977 photo of Elvis in his coffin was bought by The National Enquirer for $18,000.
Whatever happens, experts say the magazine that publishes the images of baby Shiloh is in for a good day at the newsstand.
"That baby is going to sell a lot of copies," said Debra Birnbaum, editor in chief of Life and Style Weekly.
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