After being tossed out of the wedding of The Bachelor’s Jason Mesnick and Molly Maloney last month, two paparazzi are suing for battery, false imprisonment and negligence. They say that ABC, the production company behind the show, and the company that provided the security guards should pay for allegedly manhandling them.
These paps better hope this case settles, because there’s no way a jury will sympathize with them.
Score one for the stars in the ongoing legal war with the paparazzi.
[Bauer Griffin Online]
A Los Angeles judge granted Nicole Richie a restraining order against two paparazzi photogs today, following an October incident in which Nicole was rear-ended and hurt.
The restraining order, which requires the photogs to stay 50 feet away, will remain in effect until 2012.
Good result. If paps are breaking the law, celebs and authorities should go after them. On the other hand, if they simply are taking photos without breaking any traffic or anti-paparazzi laws, then it may just be the price of fame.
A photographer without a driver’s license rear-endedNicole Richie in Beverly Hills yesterday.
[Bauer Griffin Online]
Nicole was hurt, but decided to seek her own treatment instead of taking an ambulace to the hospital. The driver, on the other hand, was arrested on suspicion of driving without a license.
So, before you go thinking LA needs more paparazzi laws, realize that this pap already may have been violating traffic laws. The solution is to catch these paps for speeding, driving recklessly, and trespassing. Let’s enforce the laws we have!
Four men broke into a hotel room in the Bahamas on Sunday and stole $20,000 worth of paparazzi equipment after two photogs snapped shots of Robbie Williams partying on an exclusive beach.
[Bauer Griffin Online]
Superintendent Ellsworth Moss, who heads the detective unit of the Royal Bahamas Police Force,confirms that his unit questioned Robbie yesterday and that he is not a suspect:
“We don’t think he was the one who actually committed the robbery, but it may have been a spinoff or may have been triggered by what reportedly happened with his party on the beach.”
Two men are currently in police custody.
PS: Popsquire hopes Robbie’s party included this song.
Popsquire followers likely remember that a homeless woman recently saved Katherine McPhee from a swarm of paparazzi. Now, she’s back and available to help fight paparazzi crime.
Watch, laugh, and wonder whether McPhee or Funny or Die gave her some money for this.
City prosecutors say a photographer is flash-less because of Kanye West.
[Pacific Coast News]
West was charged with misdemeanor battery, grand theft and vandalism after he was arrested for allegedly breaking a paparazzo’s camera flash at LAX in September. On Friday, he pleaded not guilty to all charges, and the next court date is July 15.
Madonna’s lucky star was not shining on her this weekend.
[Janet Mayer / PR Photos]
She suffered minor injuries and was hospitalized in Long Island after falling off a horse on Saturday. M’s publicist released this statement:
“Madonna who was thrown off a horse earlier today has just been released from Southampton Hospital with minor injuries and bruises…The accident occurred when the horse Madonna was riding was startled by paparazzi who jumped out of the bushes to photograph the singer who was visiting friends on Eastern Long Island over the weekend. Madonna will be having further tests and continues to remain under observation by doctors.”
If the paparazzi were on private property, Madonna should press charges for trespass!
Popsquire followers may remember that Kanye was arrested at LAX in September for allegedly smashing a photog’s camera and later released after posting $20,000 bail. The DA’s office decided not to file any felony charges, but the LA City Attorney’s office charged him with three misdemeanors today: vandalism, battery, and grand theft.
Kanye’s arraignment is scheduled for April 14. Just like any other arraignment, Kanye will be expected to plead guilty, not guilty, or no contest. Popsquire will keep you posted!
This video shows two collisions between pop culture and law:
Miley Cyrus is illegally parked in a handicap spot.
Miley mentions “Alison,” the male paparazzo who apparently has the night off. Could it be the same Alison who sued Keanu Reeves last year, claiming that Keanu hit him with his car and prevented him from working?
Back in September, LAX cops used Adessa as a human decoy to divert paparazzi away from Jamie Lynn Spears and baby Maddie. Adessa now is threatening to sue the City of Los Angeles for $2 million, claiming that she didn’t agree to the decoy diversion and has suffered invasion of privacy as well as “humiliation, fear and harassment.” Click here to read the Claim for Damages, which serves as a prelude to filing a lawsuit against the City.
Popsquire smells a settlement! If Adessa was unaware what she was getting into and the cops duped her, she deserves to be compensated; however, $2 million is absurd and represents rampant greed that pervades the California legal system.
A Florida photographer says he was Disturbia’d by Rihanna’s and Chris Brown’s bodyguards!
Luis Santana, the photog, is suing (click here to read the lawsuit) the undercover lovers for $1 million. After taking a picture of the couple through an open window in their limo, Santana claims that bodyguards knocked him to the ground, tore off his shirt, took his equipment and kicked him over and over again outside of a Florida club.
He contends that the $1 million will compensate him for cost of the camera, the lost photos, injuries and emotional distress. Every plaintiff wants $1 million! Popsquire doesn’t remember learning in law school that every lawsuit is worth $1 million, but somehow it has become the magic number. Ridiculous.
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