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.
