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Jun 25
'07
Eva Longoria pays for her wedding and then some by selling picture rights


Eva Longora has scored a $2 million deal with OK! Magazine for the exclusive photos from her July 7th wedding to Spurs player Tony Parker. The three day wedding extravaganza in Paris is said to cost over a million, with Longoria and Parker footing the bill for the hotel and a chartered flight for guests. The women will enjoy an all expenses paid spa trip while Parker’s friends are going golfing the day before the nuptuals. The ceremony will be the Chateau di Chantilly outside Paris, with white flowers and white candles throughout. Kenny Chesney will perform at the reception, to be held at French club the VIP room.

According to Page Six, People Magazine and OK! were in a bidding war for the rights to the photos, with OK! willing to pay more. There was speculation that People was not picked as it covered Tony and Eva’s brief split last year, but the final decision is said to have come down to money, not bad feelings:

Sources said People “laid the groundwork” for landing exclusive photos of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s July 7 wedding - but Page Six has learned that OK! won the frenzied bidding. Sources close to the negotiations said OK! paid more than $2 million.

It was a surprising - and costly - end to the battle for the privilege to snap the nuptials, which the “Desperate Housewives” hottie and her San Antonio Spur fiancé plan to hold in a romantic castle in Paris.

“People editors broke the story of their wedding and were working hard with Eva’s reps [to secure the picture rights],” said a source close to the talks. “They were upset about losing the photos.”

Other sources suggested that previous coverage in People of the couple’s rumored breakup, including a photo of Parker with another woman in New York, may have influenced the result.

But a well-placed source said that had nothing to do with it, that “it was [entirely] a matter of money, straight up to the final negotiation.” Another insider said, “Everyone wanted the photos . . . but everyone knows OK! will pay [a lot].”

I thought Eva was a fool to spend so much on her wedding, which will be her second after her two year marriage to actor Tyler Christopher ended in early 2004. Now it seems she knew exactly what she was doing, and was just building up the anticipation so she could cash in big time.

Maybe that’s her strategy by marrying Parker too. She’s sure to get a nice settlement when she divorces the millionaire basketball player, and I haven’t heard anything about a prenup.

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