Jude Law’s baby momma scores $300k for first pics

With the infant now barely one-month old, Jude Law’s former acquaintance, aspiring actress Samantha Burke, has just sold her first baby pictures for $300,000 in cash.

Local paparazzi told the UK’s Daily Mail that mother and daughter could be seen clearly posing for ‘Hello’ reporters for over an hour in a very plain home on the ‘Redneck Riviera’ – a 95-mile strip of the Florida coast from Panama City to suburban Pensacola.

‘The child has rarely left the house since her birth,” said one tired pap. “And when Samantha does take her out for some reason, her face is covered to stop us getting free shots.”

The case first hit the headlines back in July when Samantha announced to the press she was expecting Jude’s child after a one-night encounter in New York last December. Her press agent, Eileen Koch has confirmed the photo-rights have been sold, netting Samantha more than a quarter-million dollars on top of Jude’s cash.

Legal experts aware of the case had predicted Jude’s offer to provide financial support would secure her silence about their brief fling, but Ms. Burke has since hired a Hollywood publicity agent to sell the rights to shots  of Sophia, plus a detailed – and no doubt self-serving – story about the affair.

Friends of the actor were upset by the news, ‘Jude said from the outset that he will support the child, even though he’s no longer in the relationship,” they told reporters.

Jude’s agent, meanwhile, had no comment to make…