HIDE AND SEEK: JENNIFER ANISTON

by Robert Scott Button
photos by Robert Scott Button

Superstar Jennifer Aniston broke her silence last week about her breakup with Brad Pitt in her tell-all story in Vanity Fair magazine. A few days after the magazine hit the stands she was due to finish shooting “The Breakup” in Chicago.

Game on! We (paparazzi)knew where she would be for over a week. I hatched a simple plan: fly to Chicago and get a photo. Jennifer’s bodyguard and professional driver also had a plan, not to let the paparazzi get the shot.

After four days the score was team Aniston 4, photographer 0.

The cops had the sound stage locked down, the hotel had a very private garage, and anywhere she went the star had what I like to call “service entrance” access, AKA the back door and was blocked by her large bodyguard. So why were they going to such great lengths to keep the pack (I counted six teams made up of two photogs and one reporter) from getting a photo? There had to be a good reason.

I did what I call a “soft follow” of Aniston’s SUV from the sound stage to a small restaurant in Chicago. I kept four to five cars back from the SUV and just observed who got out of the car. Bingo! Jennifer Aniston and a mystery woman exiting the SUV, going to dinner. The mystery woman would later be identified as Brad Pitt’s mother, and confirmed by Pitt’s publicist. Team Aniston 7, Photographer $$


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