Baby Suri Photos Under Guard

We’ve been hearing all the rumors about Vanity Fair’s top-secret photos of Baby Suri, the never-as-yet publicly seen child of Tom Cruise and Katie (Kate) Holmes. According to one story, the pictures are so top secret that even Conde Nast owner Si Newhouse was not allowed to see them. The latest rumor, reported on jossip.com is that editor in chief Graydon Carter has stationed armed guards outside the plant where the magazine is printed.

The story also says that Vanity Fair required the employees of  the plant where the magazine is printed to sign non-disclosure agreements.

This has been a big year for celebrity babies, what with the birth Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. The first pictures of that little lady raised the stakes in Hollywood’s publicity wars. The proud parents sold the images to People magazine for some $4 million. People complained later on when the pictures turned up on the Internet prior to publication.

Poor Tom and Katie (Kate). Their own happy event was completely overshadowed  by the arrival of Ms. Jolie-Pitt. Brilliantly, they took the opposite publicity tack, not allowing any photographer (or anyone else, for that matter) to behold their child. Rumors swirled. Did young Suri even really exist?

Now, it seems, Vanity Fair has the proof—the only kind of proof that counts: Pictures. And they have become the most highly valued pictures on earth.