Shots fired at model Gisele Bündchen's wedding

Paparazzi dodge bullets after being caught taking unauthorised pictures of newlyweds Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady

Robert Booth

Shots were fired near Gisele Bündchen's beachfront home. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Gisele Bündchen, the Brazilian supermodel, and her husband, the American football star Tom Brady, have taken the task of keeping their wedding photos exclusive to extremes, it has emerged.

A pair of celebrity photographers had the back window of their Suzuki SUV shot out by security guards when they tried to flee with snatched stills and videos of the happy couple's big day at Bündchen's villa in Mal Pais, Costa Rica.

The Boston Herald, which claims to have exclusive pictures of the wedding that it plans to publish tomorrow, said the paparazzi were from the INF photo agency, and were hiding in bushes near Bündchen's beachfront home taking pictures of the event when they were caught by the newlyweds' security guards.

"The photographers, identified as Yuri Cortez and Rolando Aviles, were marched to Bündchen's villa where they were ordered to surrender their still photos and video," the paper reported. "The men refused and fled with the security guards in pursuit. Two of the photographers ran to a waiting SUV and jumped in as a guard fired a shot at them, the photo agency said. The bullet shattered the Suzuki's rear window, passed between the two men in the front seat and bounced off the windshield."

No one was injured, but the incident gives a new meaning to the term "shotgun wedding". New York Daily News has a picture of the shot-up car. According to the Can't Stop the Bleeding blog, Cortez was shocked. "I couldn't believe it when I realised what they had done," he told the photo agency. "I could have lost my life for the sake of some pictures that Gisele didn't want published. Are they insane?"