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Heloisa Pinheiro

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The Resume

    (1945- )
    Based in Brazil
    Birth name is Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto
    Inspiration for ‘the Girl from Ipanema' (1962)
    Was a Brazilian Playmate in 1987

Why she might be annoying:

    She is secretive about her date of birth.
    Although the composers and their estates made millions in royalties with the carioca, she herself received nothing out of it.
    When she opened a clothing boutique under the name ‘Girl from Ipanema,' the heirs of the composers successfully threatened her with a lawsuit. She was forced to use another name.
    Curiously, they didn't get angry about the title of her website (‘Garota de Ipanema,' the original title, in Portuguese).
    Her website is written almost exclusively in Portuguese.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was a teenager at the time the song was composed.
    Although the heirs didn't appreciate her use of the title, she says she never had a quarrel with the original composers (Antonio Carlos ‘Tom' Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes).
    Her son suffered brain damage as a child.
    She and daughter Ticiane appeared together in a 2003 Playboy shoot.
    She appeared in the first episode of the second Amazing Race season as part of a Detour clue — but only one team took her option.
    Excerpt from a Legal Times article in October 2001 (Lawrence J. Siskind): What did Helô contribute to ‘The Girl From Ipanema'? Not the words. Not the music. Not her appearance, her name, her publicity rights, or her privacy. Helô supplied the inspiration — something perhaps more important than the conventional elements of intellectual property, but utterly unprotectable.

Credit: Cool It All Right?


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 23 Votes: 73.91% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 91 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 111 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 670 Votes: 47.31% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 48 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 53 Votes: 45.28% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 71 Votes: 69.01% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 141 Votes: 57.45% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying