New York Court
Dismisses Costa
Rican
Photographers'
Lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) -
A judge has
dismissed a
lawsuit by two
photographers
who said they
were shot at by
bodyguards of
New England
Patriots
quarterback Tom
Brady and
Brazilian
supermodel
Gisele Bundchen.
The April 2009
incident
occurred during
a party in Costa
Rica celebrating
the celebrity
couple's
marriage two
months earlier.
Photographers
Yuri Cortez and
Rolando Aviles
and the news
agency Agence
France Presse
charged in the
lawsuit that the
guards shot at
the
photographers
and narrowly
missed their
heads.
The lawsuit
originally was
filed in federal
court in New
York and then in
Manhattan state
Supreme Court.
Bundchen owned a
Manhattan
apartment before
her marriage,
but Justice
Judith Gische
said in her
ruling that the
model had sold
the apartment by
the time the
lawsuit was
filed in
November 2009.
The judge's
ruling was made
public Tuesday.
The judge said
neither Brady
nor Bundchen
lives in New
York and the
lawsuit against
them does not
belong in the
state. She said
the matter
"would be better
adjudicated in
Costa Rica."
Attorney John
Gleason,
representing the
photographers
and AFP, said
the plaintiffs
were studying
the decision to
see if there are
grounds to
appeal to a
higher court.
Gleason said the
plaintiffs chose
not to sue in
Costa Rica
because the
courts are too
slow there.
"I was told it
often takes 10
years for a
civil case to be
concluded," he
said.
Brady has won
three Super
Bowls with the
Patriots, and
Forbes magazine
says Bundchen is
the highest-paid
model in the
world. The
couple have said
their main
residence is in
Massachusetts,
where they are
raising their
infant son,
Benjamin.
An attorney for
Brady and
Bundchen did not
immediately
respond to a
telephone
message seeking
comment
Wednesday. |
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