Angelina Heads Home with Twins

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One week after giving birth to twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, Angelina Jolie has finally gone home from the hospital in Nice, France, where she had been staying for almost three weeks.

"Mrs Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Foundation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19," reads a statement on the hospital's web site. "The mother and her babies are doing very well."

Despite the brigade of photographers and reporters camped outside the hospital, Angelina was able to leave the hospital without being spotted and return to the rented countryside estate she and the family she shares with partner Brad Pitt have been residing in since coming to France for the Cannes Film Festival in May.