Actor-director Sean Penn was charged today with battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer paparazzi in Brentwood, California last fall.
Penn will be arraigned March 22 on the two misdemeanor charges, said Los Angeles city attorney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan.
Penn will not be required to appear in court if he is represented by an attorney.
Mateljan said Penn kicked a photographer during a paparazzi crush in October 2009. The photographer’s camera also was damaged. The incident was captured on a video posted by celebrity Web site TMZ.com in which Penn is seen kicking at a photographer and repeatedly telling the photographer to “get out.”
If convicted, Penn could face up to 18 months in jail.
Mike tyson beats up a photograper at LAX last night. Tyson was arrested. My advice, next time schedule something to get behind the ring instead of behind bars. Mike is back at it again!
George Clooney, the world’s most charming man, is set to sue the pesky paparazzi over in Italy. According to Clooney, some photographers scaled the walls of his Italian mansion and, using long lens, took shots of underage girls changing. Clooney is now on a warpath to take those paps down.
George told TMZ: “We’re suing two magazines AND a photographer. I don’t know about the law in the United States but in Italy it’s illegal for photographers to climb over my wall and to take long lens pictures of a 13-year-old girl in her bedroom.”
I must say that I agree with George here. It’s really wrong to illegally penetrate a celebrity’s property for photos but it’s even worse to not have knowledge of the people you’re shooting. If the photographers would have taken their jobs seriously and figured out they were snapping photos of underage girls none of this would have happened. We’ll see what the Italian courts decide.
TV ruined parents Jon and Kate of 8 children. Since they have been put in the spotlight, nothing but trouble has ensued. The two filed for divorce a month ago…
Father of the 8 Jon Gosselin, has been photographed with a 22 year-old girl who just had a dumb video surface of her smoking out of a pipe. Another news site also posted some pictures of her as a little girl when she was “young and innocent.” This photo here was taken of Jon and his new gf on Christian Audigier’s boat! If you get on TV, does it mean you get to hang on a boat with Ed Hardy’s Christian Audigier??? Why are they in the spotlight like celebrities? How did Jon’s little girlfriend get her childhood pics in the news? Why do people care?
I feel sorry for Kate. Jon is a dork and thinks he’s some big shot Playboy because he’s in tabloids now. He thinks he can just throw away his huge family and have new girlfriends? It’s really corny. He’s lost…
I never watched the show, but it’s plain to see that Kate is a victim and Jon is a loser. Quit acting like you’re hot Jon, you’re not.
You read that right, Jon and Kate Gosselin have reunited! However, it’s not to reconcile their relationship. No, Jon and Kate reunited over the holiday weekend for their kids. So while it’s not tabloid fodder or a happy ending, at least it’s honorable.
The couple and their eight children lit sparklers, played volleyball and had cake before fireworks and more family time. Of course, paparazzi were waiting beyond the property lines, snapping pictures and hoping for a giant fight. Looks like the ex’s did okay though. They had this date planned out months ago and were ready to see each other and be formal despite their divorce proceedings.
Chris Brown will be facing another judge in an assault case but this time it’s a grown man he is accused of assaulting.
The attack took place at a LA area gym where Chris Brown and his entourage were playing a harmless game of basketball, harmless that is until a photog snapped a picture of Brown.
The LA Times is reporting, pap, Robert Rosen snapped a photo of Brown doing his best Kobe imitation and that’s when Brown’s bodyguards began to verbally abuse him, Rosen then attempted to flee the scene to avoid drama, however, tripped and fell, allowing Brown’s henchmen to catch up with him where they then proceeded to rough him up. Rosen claims he was, “severely injured and disabled, both internally and externally, and suffered extreme emotional distress.” The incident occurred only a few weeks after Brown was accused of beating, then girlfriend, Rihanna.
Browns lawyer, Mark Geragos, is stating, “This is a specious and frivolous lawsuit by one of the paparazzi seeking publicity and a payday, he’s done this before and lost.” And in fact that is true, Rosen brought similar claims against 007 actor, Pierce Brosnan in 2007. Rosen claimed Brosnan inflicted “severe physical and emotional pain and injuries.” Rosen lost that case reported TMZ.
He can’t run and he can’t hide! It’s too much! Twilight’s vampire boy is getting attacked in every direction! Fans, autographs, photogs, crazy paps, screaming girls-it’s all a wild sensation for Rob.
Rob cannot just go out like normal people anymore. Can someone call Britney Spears’ publicist and Rob’s, and get them together for a photo opp? Imagine the paparazzi camera crush that would be! Pattz better start leaving home with a metal soldier’s shield.
Time for Rob to get a football team, a ninja, a rugby player and a UFC fighter for bodyguards. Oh and a magician to make Rob invisible sometimes.
Love is in the air for teeny boppers Selena Gomez and Taylor Lautner. It looks as the two are getting more comfortable displaying their affection for each other in front of the paparazzi…well, actually Gomez looks quite uncomfortable. The two were spotted in Vancouver, leaving a sushi restaurant.
I don’t know if she’s actually taken a look at Lautner (did you check out his arms), but if she doesn’t want that sexy 16 year-old, I could name tons of girls AND women who do. You better get up on that girl!
In the latest issue of Playboy magazine, my future husband Shia Labeouf didn’t open his legs like the girls do, but he did open his mouth and decided to spill some beans about his personal life. Other than being a tad creepy saying that he wanted to date his mom, Shia made a rumor, a reality when he confessed that he did in fact go out on a date with songstress Rihanna.
The two were photographed months ago at what looked like a bar, sitting quite close to each other. Rumors began that the two were dating, but both reps commented that it was indeed not true.
Well, the truth set Shia free because he indeed was on a date, but there wasn’t another. He said, “(I was) filming a sword fight when I got the (text) message. I said to myself, ‘Can this be my life?’ It never got beyond one date. The spark wasn’t there. We weren’t passionate about each other in that way, so we remain friends.”
I think Shia realized that he didn’t need alien-esque Rihanna, but instead wants to date me.
Another weird X17 peeper video of Britney driving in her convertible Mercedes. This pap filmed her in their rear view mirror, which showed her driving stag, in the sunshine, smoking a cigarette. You can hardly tell it’s her.
Can she just have some alone time?! Apparently not. Maybe she shouldn’t go out without her bodyguard.
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