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Bündchen/Brady Shotgun Wedding | 04/06/2009 9:45 am

Two Photogs Shot at During Bündchen, Brady Wedding (Photo)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Sparks flew ...

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Sparks weren’t the only things flying at Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady’s wedding. Gun shots also flew as the couple renewed their nuptials in Costa Rica on Saturday.

According to reports, two paparazzi photographers claim that wedding security opened fire on them after they were caught snapping pictures.  Rolando Aviles and Yuri Cortez were working for Agence France Press and had a neighbor’s permission to photograph from 300 feet away, the New York Post reports.

The photo agency INF Daily, which also had staff on the scene report that the photographers were asked to hand over their film. When they refused and fled to their vehicle, the security reportedly shot several times at the car. Fortunately, no one was hurt. INF Daily reports:

As [the photographers] started the engine, a live round pierced the back windshield of the Suzuki jeep, and hit the front windshield directly between the two men’s heads. They made their escape, and found the spent .38mm round lying on the floor of the car.

Photographs from the latest nuptials may appear in a Brazilian magazine, which reportedly had an exclusive deal with the Victoria’s Secret model.

"I couldn’t believe it when I realized what they had done," Cortez told INF. "I could have lost my life for the sake of some pictures that Gisele didn’t want published. Are they insane?"

The couple were married last month at a private service in California.

Read more of this story at the New York Post and INF Daily.

8 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Green Tears
These two are completely out of control - if they didn’t want a media circus, they shouldn’t have planned a second wedding!
By Green Tears on 04/06/2009 9:51 am
Z ****
Oh, please — why would a couple "renew" their vows so soon after they took the original vows?   The only reason they had a second wedding was for the publicity.  
By Z **** on 04/06/2009 9:59 am
DeBúrca obj
No, look at the photo. Seems more likely they had the second wedding to show off Gisele Bündchen’s breast implants. Tacky dress for a wedding.
By DeBúrca obj on 04/06/2009 10:59 am
Z ****
Having security shoot at the photgraphers who had been lured there in the name of publicity was a romantic touch.  =)
By Z **** on 04/06/2009 11:21 am
Barbara B
Who cares about these two anyway.  Wouldn’t it be great if we just ignored their wedding.  The press should have their own blog with polls on who wants pictures of these types of events.  Then post it as such so these bone heads can see that there are more important things going on.  Like a roof over our heads and food on the table.  Not who’s screwing who.  I’m so sick of these photographers and the lenght they go to get a picture.  Hasn’t the Lady Diana tragedy taught them anything.
By Barbara B on 04/06/2009 10:23 am
Z ****
I agree — but, as long as these magazines will pay big bucks for the photos and celebrities like these two are willing to do anything for the publicity — these photographers are just making a living.   If the public would stop buying these magazines……then it would stop.
By Z **** on 04/06/2009 11:23 am
EKA -

Looks like she "owed" a wedding photo shoot to the brazilian magazine who might have been shut out of the California "private" ceremony … this has the smell of money all over it.

We, in new England, thought that Tom Brady had the world as his oyster after winning the superbowls - young, adorable, luckiest man alive. However, and as usual, his life gotten caught up in "celebrity" and is thinking with the wrong brain. This usually ends badly, doesn’t it ?

By EKA - on 04/06/2009 11:32 am
Barbara B
EKA I lost my respect with the way he handled the whole pregancy thing.  Okay so he didn’t want to marry the girl, keep your pants zipped and little respect since you were so high profile and wait until baby was born.  Again another over indulged jock who thinks he’s a celeb.  It’s just a game ask any X football player who wasn’t a super star and lives a normal life now.
By Barbara B on 04/06/2009 11:41 am