Paparazzi Go Gunning for Tom & Gisele

Football star and his supermodel missus are the targets of a lawsuit by paparazzi manhandled by their security squad

By Josh Grossberg Sep 22, 2009 7:43 PMTags
Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady, Broken WindowINFphoto.com , AP/ Photo/Tadeu Vilani/Agencia RBS

As a quarterback, Tom Brady has to operate out of the shotgun to avoid blitzers. His and Gisele Bündchen's bodyguards, it's alleged, like operating shotguns to avoid paparazzi.

The picture-perfect twosome have been tagged with a federal lawsuit by a couple of shutterbugs who claim they came under fire while attempting to cover the couple's April wedding celebration in Costa Rica.

Echoing allegations made at the time of the soiree, photographers Yuri Cortes and Rolando Aviles claim in their negligence lawsuit that they were shaken down by the couple's security detail. After managing to escape, the photographers fled in their SUV. That's when the guards allegedly began firing guns, which blew out the back window and "narrowly missed striking" the photogs, per the suit.

The photographers and their fellow plaintiff, the Agence France-Presse wire service, are seeking at least $1 million in damages.

Reps for the Patriots' star quarterback and the runway star, who are expecting their first child in December, declined to comment.

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