Rihanna Gets a Pick-Me-Up

Posted May 8th 2009 2:10PM by TMZ Staff

Nobody was puttin' the moves on her, but Rihanna still got picked up yesterday in NYC.

RiRi and her umbrella-ella-ella sent out a personal SOS to her bodyguard: Get me over these treacherous puddles!

Filed under: Paparazzi Video, Rihanna

Tags: bodyguard, boots, driver, puddle, rain, rihanna, rihanna umbrella, RihannaUmbrella, video, wet

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Weekend Rain Catcher

Posted Jan 28th 2008 12:19PM by TMZ Staff

It's been raining for over a week in Los Angeles -- but some stars didn't get the memo. Our cameras caught quite a few celebs, including a half-naked Brooke Hogan, whose accessories for the evening didn't include an umbrella ella ella.

Luckily, you can always count on a valet to save the day -- or just use your purse like Hilary Duff.

Filed under: Paparazzi Video, Natural Disasters

Tags: brooke hogan, BrookeHogan, hilary duff, HilaryDuff, ian ziering, IanZiering, paris hilton, ParisHilton, rain, wet

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Brad's Unauthorized Vanity Fair Cover

Posted Oct 31st 2006 5:20PM by TMZ Staff

Brad Pitt struts his stuff on the cover of December's Vanity Fair -- and TMZ has learned that no one was more surprised to see the steamy cover on stands than Brad himself.
Brad Pitt on Vanity Fair.
A source close to Pitt tells TMZ that Brad shot the photos, taken by artist Robert Wilson, in September 2005, but didn't have any idea at the time -- or anytime since -- that they would be used for the cover of VF. Pitt had agreed to be in Wilson's avant-garde video art project last year, and signed a legal release at the time for the still and video images taken in the shoot. But until the Vanity Fair cover emerged this week, Pitt didn't know that he would be the magazine's coverboy.

Reps for Vanity Fair tell TMZ, "In a letter dated October 5, 2006, and sent to Pitt care of Brillstein-Grey [Pitt's managers], Wilson informed Pitt that a still image from his portrait was going to be featured in the December art issue of Vanity Fair." A source says that Pitt never saw the letter.

Pitt's lawyers are said to be weighing their legal options. His rep gave the following statement to TMZ: "We are very disappointed that Vanity Fair has chosen to put an unauthorized cover on their magazine. It seriously makes me question their integrity and motives."

A rep for Vanity Fair tells TMZ: "Brad Pitt posed for a Robert Wilson video portrait, and in the photo release (signed by Pitt), agreed to allow Wilson to use the portrait or any images from that sitting in connection with any publicity on Wilson's video project. Vanity Fair decided to do a story on Wilson's video portraits and obtained rights to the entire collection of photographs from those sittings, which included Pitt's."