But does that mean Helo Pinheiro has the right to use "The Girl From Ipanema" to promote herself? ... at her pleasure, the work and images of Tom Jobim and of Vinicius Moraes as she has been doing.” ...

Helô Pinheiro, 71, the woman immortalized by the 1960s classic “Girl from Ipanema,” will carry the Olympic torch in the 2016 Summer Games torch relay.

Rio de Janeiro - She was tall and tan and young and lovely, just as the classic song she inspired says. But does that mean Helo Pinheiro has the right to use "The Girl From Ipanema" to promote herself ...

Helo Pinheiro was a 17-year-old fixture on the Rio beach ("tall and tan and young and lovely") in 1962, when she caught the eye of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who along with poet Vinicius De ...

Photo: Heloísa Pinheiro Rio de Janeiro The girl from Ipanema has gone walking again—straight into an Olympic-related kerfuffle over the beloved song that many consider Brazil’s second ...

Helô Pinheiro, 71, the woman immortalized by the 1960s classic “Girl from Ipanema,” will carry the Olympic torch in the 2016 Summer Games torch relay.

Pinheiro believes that if Jobim and Moraes were still alive, they would not be suing her. Jobim died in 1994, Moraes in 1980. Pinheiro noted that she was friends with both men and that Jobim even ...