Charges filed against Kanye West and his road manager and bodyguard, Don Crowley, have been dropped by a Los Angeles court, reports CBC. The pair faced misdemeanour charges in connection with a fight that broke out with two paparazzi in an airport last September. The incident resulted in some broken equipment and minor injuries to one of the photographers.
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The scales in the Britney-K-Fed world are perpetually skewed. One is doomed to be crazy or in rehab or bald while the other is acting the model parent for the paparazzi. It’s like a law of physics or something.
So, just as Spears began to clean up her act, Federline took a very public plunge into the depths of obesity, baring his flabby chest for the paparazzi at a pool in Miami on Saturday.
The photos available on JustJared.com, among other gossip websites, are disturbing at best, but they also beg the question as to how he can hang on to volleyball player girlfriend Victoria Prince. And obviously, how he snagged Spears in the first place?
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Amy Winehouse was taken to the hospital in St. Lucia, the Caribbean isle she’s been staying at for months, her spokesman revealed on Saturday. According to media queen Perez Hilton, the reason for Wino’s hospitalization is cited as dehydration.
Says Wino’s publicist: “She fainted at home (in St Lucia) and they took her in for observation, mainly to do with her medication to check everything was OK. They told her that she was dehydrated and needed to drink more water.”
According to the statement, Wino had been running around with a group of children before she passed out. She is expected to perform at a jazz festival in St. Lucia this coming week, if she’s feeling better.
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Lily Allen has won a major victory in her ongoing battle against the paparazzi.
Following an incident Thursday in which she was allegedly rear-ended by a photog in London, the British pop singer secured a court injunction banning further harassment from paparazzi photographers.
“My client has faced constant harassment over the last few months from the paparazzi,” Allen’s lawyer Mark Thomson said in a statement released on Friday. “As a result of this and various incidents of harassment that took place yesterday my client has now been forced to take legal action.
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Although she may appear angelic, the young actress doesn’t put up with reporters when it comes to privacy. While being bombarded with photographers at an event in Hawaii she yelled “Back up,” Eonline reports. When one reporter tried to get her attention by touching her shoulder she screamed “Don’t you ever touch me” and finished the scene by saying “You all make my life miserable!” Perhaps the young actress isn’t meant to be in the spotlight after all.
On Sunday, British soccer player, David Beckham engaged in a confrontation with the paparazzi after having his car pursued by photographers.
Ironically, the fight broke loose in front of a Beverly Hills police station.
It started after a disapproving Beckham approached the car that had been following his own demanding that the driver come out to speak to him. Moments later, when the driver refused, one of Beckham’s bodyguards made his way to the passenger seat of the offending vehicle and began swinging away.
“Once the bodyguards and the paparazzi started fighting David ran back to the car and he and Victoria drove off…The cops finally came and broke it up,” said an eyewitness to E! News.
Authorities confiscated a video of the fight – taken by one of the photographers – as evidence and questioned two of the bodyguards but no arrests were made.
A photographer involved in the fight said to E! News representative, “They just can’t do this. They put me on the floor, they got my camera and they threw it in the trash can. They can’t do this to us.”
The only statement released by the authorities was made by the Beverly Hills Police Department Sgt. Gregg Mader stating, “We took a report at the scene, but no one was taken into custody or cited, we’ll review what we have to see if further action needs to be taken.”
Paparazzi taking photos of Matthew McConaughey were attacked by a group of surfers, reports E! News.
According to one shutterbug, the photographers were approached by the surfers who demanded that everyone stop filming and taking pictures. However, when that did not happen, the argument escalated and became physical.
“[The surfers] formed a semicircle in front of his camera and they said [McConaughey] didn’t want him to film,” said spokesman Steve Whitmore for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman. “They got into an argument, and [the photographer] indicated that he received injuries…[The surfers] took the video camera and threw it in the water.”
While detectives are investigating the incident, according to E! News, a paparazzo suffered a broken nose.
The Diana inquest was finished yesterday when jurors found that the Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed “were unlawfully killed by the reckless driving of their chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who chased them,” the UK Guardian reports.
Paul was revealed during the inquest to have been three times over the French blood alcohol limit, with blood tests and other samples.
Princes William and Harry were present to hear the verdict, and later thanked the jury for the “thorough way in which they have considered the evidence”.
“We agree with their verdicts,” the Princes stated, “and are both hugely grateful to each and every one of them for the forbearance they have shown in accepting such significant disruption to their lives over the past six months.”
The Princes said they were also grateful to the people who came forward with evidence, and to “all those who fought so desperately to save our mother’s life on that tragic night.”
Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi’s father, said he was “disappointed” by the verdict. He believed that his son and the Princess had been killed deliberately, as part of a conspiracy involving the royal family and MI6.
During the six-month inquest, more than 240 witness testified. It is estimated to have cost upwards of £10m.
Britney Spears’ world crumbled even more last night, after a dramatic screaming match with her manager.
Spears and Sam Lutfi we seen having an emotional argument in her gated community, reports Perez Hilton. Spears was photographed barefoot outside, crying and cuddling her dog. She was so upset she called her boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, but Lutfi had told Spears’ security not to let Ghalib enter.
The fight was so bad that Spears eventually fled with another member of the paparazzi, and her father drove over to protect her.
The photo agency Ghalib works for released a statement, explaining further that Ghalib never tried to break into Spears’ home. He said there was “distress” in Britney’s voice, but when he arrived and was barred access, “Adnan then tried to call Britney [but] it seems that Sam had turned all of her cell phones off.”
The agency also snapped photos of Ghalib’s phone, illuminated with text messages from Lutfi. “You’re a manic trigger… you’ll kill her,” the messages said. “You need to cease all contact with her completely. I tried to work with you helping her but you didn’t do as asked. Only way to help now is to disappear. She’s never been this way.”
Justin Timberlake’s Australian fans have had it with the prince of pop’s diva-ish behaviour.
The ‘SexyBack’ singer just kicked off his Future Sex Love Sounds Australian tour with two concerts in Brisbane this past weekend. Timberlake reportedly snubbed fans on Friday as they waited outside the restaurant where the superstar was eating lunch.
Despite promising the loyal fans autographs after his meal, Timberlake made a quick escape from the restaurant without keeping his promise to see the fans.
It is also rumoured that the 26-year-old star did not leave a tip after enjoying a free $140 meal.
Timberlake has recently come under attack for his notoriously rude behaviour towards paparazzi and fans.
An Australian newspaper reported that Timberlake had an especially interesting run-in with photogs outside the restaurant. An excited photographer made a comment to the singer about his kids.
Timberlake allegedly replied: “I can’t believe they let you reproduce children.”
