WWW- They’re busted!

US Weekly says it has obtained exclusive photos of Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie enjoying a beach vacation in Africa this week along with her toddler son, Maddox. Two dozen photos of the couple – long the subject of rumors – set off a frenzied international bidding war yesterday.

Us scored the celebrity jackpot by paying what one source estimates was up to a staggering $1 million for the U.S. rights to the pictures, which will appear in the magazine’s next issue.

The London Sun bought the European rights and will publish pictures in today’s editions.

Pitt, 41, and Jolie, 29, are dressed in warm-weather street clothes and are not displaying romantic affection.

But there are touching images of Pitt interacting with Maddox, 3, handing him a colorful plastic bucket and shovel.

Other pictures show Pitt being met by a driver after arriving at a tropical airstrip, fringed by banana trees.

A separate source tells the Daily News that Pitt spent Wednesday and Thursday with the Jolies and left the unspecified country by private jet yesterday. They are believed to have stayed at a private villa.

Pitt has strenuously denied being involved with Jolie since splitting with his wife, Jennifer Aniston, in January.

But he and Jolie have been the subject of intense speculation since filming the sexy action flick, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” slated for release in June.

Jolie herself is twice divorced, from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.

Reps for Pitt and Jolie were keeping their heads down yesterday, ignoring repeated requests for comment.

But Pitt’s publicist, Cindy Guagenti, went on record earlier this month to slam an Us Weekly cover story about the alleged romance. She told “Access Hollywood” that the Us story about the pair “frolicking” by a hotel pool was “completely untrue.”

Pitt himself said, “Because these tabloids are making so much money, and yes, I consider Us Weekly a tabloid, they go to great lengths to corroborate their stories, whether they are true or not.”

But Us Weekly editor Janice Min appears to have had the last laugh on this one.

New York Post: IT looks like the rumored romance between Brad Pitt and his sexy “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-star, Angelina Jolie, is for real.

Despite denying any love connection was made on the set of the movie – or that any romantic feelings between the two caused the split between Pitt and wife Jennifer Aniston – Pitt has joined Jolie and son Maddox on vacation in Africa.

Photos have appeared in the London Sun of the couple walking on a romantic beach “in an African country,” possibly Tanzania, with Maddox trailing along.

One picture has Pitt holding a sand bucket and talking to Maddox with Jolie in a strapless black sundress standing very close holding sand shovels.

Other photos have Jolie sunbathing while Pitt helps Maddox build sand castles. One witness says the three spent the day on the beach and were later picked up by a car.

The photos, sold at top dollar to the Sun, will also appear in Us Weekly in the U.S. next week.

Jolie is most likely in Africa doing relief and children’s charity work, and has gotten Pitt interested in that work as well.

During the filming of “Smith,” Pitt started to do his own international charity work – something he never did with Aniston.

This is not the first time Pitt and Jolie have snuck away together.

Us Weekly reported two weeks ago that Pitt and Jolie shared a four-day Easter weekend in a secluded villa at the Parker Palm Springs hotel.

“They were kissing and holding each other. He was rubbing her back. It looked romantic,” an eyewitness told the magazine.

“It’s obvious they were a couple,” added a hotel employee, Levi Sotomayor.

After the article came out, Pitt issued a statement via his rep, Cindy Guagenti, saying the story was a lie.

This time around, Guagenti didn’t return PAGE SIX’s calls. Stephen Huvane, Aniston’s rep who is usually good at getting back to us promptly, didn’t return e-mails.

Aniston is said to be devastated by her ex’s relationship with Jolie.

When she and Pitt first split, it was widely reported that Aniston was the impetus because she wanted to focus on her career and not have children just yet.