BRANDY
Photograph by Jeff Riedel
May 25, 2004
Miami

''We ended up shooting at this sweet old man's house on the beach,'' says Riedel. ''It was built in the '40s and decorated in the '60s and hadn't been touched since.'' The busy Brandy -- who arrived with her fiancé, NBA star Quentin Richardson, in tow -- was rushed in and out of the session by her frenzied publicist. Still, Riedel managed to capture a sexy, self-possessed side of the Afrodisiac songbird. ''She was excited and told me that she had never been shot that way before.''