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Stars v. Paparazzi
Hugh Grant recently kicked a TMZ photographer in the groin while he was leaving The Waverly Inn in New York. But this isn't his first paparazzi "run in." In April 2007, Grant hurled a container of baked beans at a photographer lurking outside his home. According to the paparazzo, Grant left him "bruised, battered" and covered in the saucy legumes. The 'Bridget Jones' actor was arrested but never charged.
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Kelly Osbourne's fiance Luke Worrall began throwing eggs at the paparazzi when she arrived home on April 6, 2009.
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Hayden Panettiere lost her cool with paparazzi on the red carpet at a fundraiser in Honolulu. One reporter tried to get Panettiere's attention and touched her shoulder. Panettiere turned around and screamed, "Don't you ever touch me!" Before going inside, the 'Heroes' star snapped, "You all make my life miserable."
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"We need to make a distinction between people who photograph celebrities at events and people who climb over your wall wearing camouflage and calling out your kids names as you take them to school so they'll look that way," Brad Pitt tells Ann Curry of the 'Today Show'. "I have no respect for these people... There should be laws against it."
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"[Paparazzi have] become an entity to themselves... But eventually they'll implode. They're creating a house of cards that will inevitably fall. These are not nice people. When you're taking your child to school, and they're trying to get on school property to get a picture, it literally makes you want to just smack them," Kate Hudson tells Elle magazine.
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Lindsay Lohan described her car accident to Lauren Hutton in Interview Magazine: "I wouldn't have been speeding up like I was if I didn't have people shoving cameras in my windows.... I was running away from the paparazzi... I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead."
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"Can you leave me alone, I'm trying to get gas and this is really harassment," Sienna Miller reportedly said to this paparazzo, who then continued shooting. Miller drove to a local police station to complain about the persistent cameramen following the confrontation.
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"It burns a fire inside of me, the s**** that I've seen people do to get at me or my daughter. I won't forget it, and I won't support it. I don't want my daughter growing up feeling spied on or threatened," Michelle Williams tells Newsweek. She insists the paparazzi might eventually cause her to give up acting. "It's given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth. I have this thing that I'm in love with - acting - and now it has this baggage."
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A jury found in favor of Keanu Reeves after a paparazzo sued him for allegedly hitting him with his Porsche.
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In June, 'Dancing With the Stars' contestant Steve Guttenberg was in no mood to be photographed while on a jog, grabbing the camera from a paparazzo and threatening to punch him. According to the photo agency Bauer-Griffin, Guttenberg was "was munching on a banana after a jog" when he "suddenly became wildly angry, motioning to punch a photographer and grabbing at a videographer's camera."
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Celebrity Troublemakers
'Harry Potter' actor Jamie Waylett, who plays school bully Vincent Crabbe in the films, was charged July 7 with growing 10 marijuana plants. As he was dealing with legal woes, his costars were attending the London premiere of the latest 'Potter' flick.
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'Three's Company' star Joyce DeWitt was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence on the Fourth of July in California.
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'You Light Up My Life' songwriter and film director Joseph Brooks has been accused of luring women to his apartment (via Craigslist) and drugging and assaulting them. Brooks, seen being led by police on June 23, has been indicted on rape and sex assault charges.
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Film and TV star Jonathan Rhys Meyers reportedly got into a war of words with French police, leaving many to believe the rehabbed actor is drinking again. During the incident, he allegedly threw money at them and challenged police to hit him. He was, naturally, handcuffed.
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Jeffrey Archuleta, the father of 'American Idol' star David Archuleta, was caught in a compromising position when police raided a Utah massage parlor, RadarOnline is reporting. He was cited for misdemeanor soliciting a prostitute, according to the report.
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Always feisty 'Real Housewives of New York City" star Kelly Bensimon accepted two days of community service for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend back in March. "I'm very pleased," Bensimon said outside court on June 8. "Justice was served."
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Actor-singer Edison Chen says widely circulated Internet photos of him having sex with female Hong Kong stars were a youthful indiscretion, speaking at length for the first time on a scandal that shocked the Chinese entertainment world last year.
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Actress Lori Petty was arrested on May 30 for allegedly driving drunk and hitting a skateboarder with her car, according to TMZ reports. Both she and the skateboarder only suffered minor injuries
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A 23-year-old woman in Australia was sentenced to more than two years in prison for cyber-stalking 'American Idol' runner-up Diana DeGarmo - for the second time. Quattrocchi did community service for cyber-stalking and blackmailing DeGarmo in 2007.
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Singer John Rich and former 'Nashville Star' contestant Jared Ashley have filed lawsuits against each other - Ashley sued Rich for an alleged assault, and Rich sued for defamation. Rich has now turned himself into police to face those charges.
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