- Heloísa Pinheiro
Heloísa Pinheiro ("née" Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, now known as Helô Pinheiro, born 1945) The real-life "Girl from Ipanema", a "carioca " whose strolls through the fashionableIpanema district ofRio de Janeiro ,Brazil inspired the lyrics to the song "Girl from Ipanema " (originally titled, in Portuguese, "A Garota de Ipanema"), the music of which was originally written for a musical comedy.When she tried to open a clothing boutique with the name "The Girl from Ipanema" she was sued by the heirs to co-writers
Antonio Carlos Jobim andVinicius de Moraes , but after much legal wrangling she was able to keep the name of her shop.Helô Pinheiro became a Brazilian
Playboy Playmate in1987 and once again in2003 , when she did a pictorial along with her daughter,Ticiane Pinheiro . [ [http://playboy.abril.com.br/revista/sumario333.shtml playboy.abril.com.br] ]She also appeared in the second season of the Amazing Race, for the Beach portion of the first Detour clue.
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* [http://www.garotadeipanema.com.br/ Official website of Helô Pinheiro]
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