BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins left the maternity clinic in the south of France on Saturday where she gave birth a week ago, according to media reports.

    Jolie, 33, left the clinic in the Riviera city of Nice before dawn, avoiding photographers who have been massed outside.

    Associated Press Television cameras outside the hospital filmed a large white van with tinted windows leaving one of the hospital's back entrances at that time.

    The twins, a boy and a girl, named Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, "were doing perfectly well," said the statement issued by the clinic.

    Jolie checked into the hospital on July 2.

    The local newspaper has reported that an unnamed U.S. publication has paid 11 million U.S. dollars for exclusive rights to the first photos of the Jolie-Pitt twins and that the proceeds will go to charity.

    (Agencies)