Over the weekend, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen got married again, this time in Costa Rica, where Gisele has a seaside home. Of course, everyone knew why they were there, and paparazzi swarmed the area around Gisele’s private property. They had hired private security guards, and there was a clash between the guards and the paparazzi during the “sunset ceremony”. The guards fired shots at (or around) the paparazzi, and tried to apprehend the photographers.
A security guard working at the wedding of model Gisele Bundchen to American football player Tom Brady has been accused of shooting at the car of a paparazzi photographer.
The alleged incident took place as the couple were exchanging vows at a sunset ceremony in Bundchen’s seaside home in Costa Rica, according to the Boston Herald. The paper said security guards for the wedding spotted two paparazzi taking photographs of the nuptials from a bush.
The security guards rounded up the men and brought them up to Bundchen’s villa where they were ordered to hand over their memory cards.
However, the men refused and decided to make a run for it. They jumped into a waiting SUV, which one of the guards allegedly fired at. They men claim the bullet broke the rear window and bounced off the windshield.
No one was hurt during the incident and it was not known if the wedding party heard the gunfire, the Herald said.
However, press photographer Yuri Cortez has filed a complaint with police over the alleged incident. Police are investigating but no charges have been laid.
Cortez claimed: “I put my foot on the accelerator and I heard the gunshot that shattered the rear window and broke the windshield. It very nearly hit me.”
INF, the photo agency that hired the photographers, said the two men “narrowly escaped death” .
The ceremony was the second time Bundchen and Brady have been married. They were first wed in California last month in front of just a few family and friends.
[From The Telegraph]
So the photographers had most likely trespassed on private property to photograph a private wedding, and when the private guards tried to make a citizen’s arrest, the photographers fled, and then complained to the police. Yeah, that makes sense. My guess is that “no charges” being filed at this point means that everybody involved can share some of the blame. Sure, the guards shouldn’t have discharged their weapons, but the photographers shouldn’t have been on private property in the first place.
Here are Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady last May. Image thanks to WENN . Header of them arriving at LAX to catch a flight on March 12th. Image thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.
random comment: I had a dream last night where these two moved across the street from me. They had a shi-tzu (very cute), and my shi-tzu wanted to go across the street and play, lol. But the whole dream was very weird. I didn’t go over and say hi through. But they appeared to be nice neighbors.
I read this story elsewhere as well and it was mentioned that the paparazzi were at the neighbor’s place next door. The neighbors allowed them to come onto their property to take pictures so they were not trespassing on private property. There is no excuse for firing a gun at them. Shoot someone with the possibility of killing them for some photographs? That’s a little extreme if you ask me.
Does anyone know Bridget Moynahan’s whereabouts over the weekend?
LOL! I was just thinking “who invited Bridget?!”
I am appalled that this would happen what kind of nut shoots a gun with so many people and a precious baby around.
It is a photpgraph not stealing a weapon of mass destruction,
I am disgusted with it all.
Maybe someone caught a photo of Gis’s penis and were shot at over that. We all know shes a man!
LOL @ Neelyo, Jazz and Seven.
I want that jacket she’s wearing.
Anyone else see the irony in Gisele – a woman whose entire raison d’être is being photographed – hiring armed guards to prevent herself being photographed. A desire for privacy is one thing, actually risking human life to stop a photo being taken is ridiculous.
This is ridiculous, their bodyguards had no right to detain anyone much less open fire. Privacy is one thing, but you DO NOT shoot at someone over photos. Period.
They were trying to protect the rights to the photos for some Brazilian magazine they had made an exclusive deal with.
Not saying if it was right or wrong.
Yeah, I read on another site too that someone next door let the papastalkers in. I’d shoot the asshole neighbors!
“Hey, come stand in my backyard and take pictures of some stranger’s private wedding – how much will you pay me?”
How many weddings does one person need?
I understand we are talking about a woman who is in dire need of attention, but so far I heard of 3 ceremonies in 2 countries.
If she doesn’t want the paparazi there, why did she made the point of letting the entire world hear about the event and where and when it would be take place?
“Bridget how nice you could make it!!!”
I wonder how the babys mothers feels about them having that kid at that wedding with gun play?? There is going to be flack about that ..what did they hire a pack of thugs or are they HER body guards?
What is with this broad and having 2 or 3 wedings?? Wanting to make sure it is really legal lol or when it breaks up they have to get a divorce in 3 countries??lol
Well, it’s ridiculous to risk someone’s life because of a picture. Many celebrities, much bigger than Gisele and Tom, manage to get married with total privacy and no bullets. Why couldn’t they? Because they probably are not smart enough to be careful about all the details that make difference when it comes to keep things private. I saw the invitation of this wedding in the internet like, a week ago. Everyone knew about it. Of course this would attract the paparazzi. But their enormous intellect didn’t help them to notice this fact. I see this attitude as extreme self importance. I mean, who they think they are to do this? Pictures of them are not that important anyway. And where did they find these mindless thugs called “bodyguards”??? They almost killed those guys who were in the neighbor’s place and were allowed to be there. They were just doing their job anyway. I bet they wouldn’t exist if the general audience didn’t read tabloids or visited sites like this (which I love, anyway). This was very extreme. I’m glad no one was hurt.
The Moynahan girl is much prettier.
No, really, this Bunchen chick (I don’t care how you spell it) is a butterface. She should be sharing an apartment with Sarah Jessica Parker.