I recently read in the OK magazine, that a Hollywood Pap Luis Santane is in talks of suing the R'n'B singing sensation Rihanna $1,000,000. It is alleged the star's bodyguards 'attacked' the photographer, after he managed to take a picture of Rihanna and fellow R 'n' B crooner Chris Brown 'making sweet music' together back in May.
According to Santane, Rihanna's 'heavies' attacked him for taking a picture of the pop sensations through the open window of their limo. He went onto say that he was beaten and that his £1,500 camera was stolen, and the picture would have made a fortune because the couple weren't officially an item.
The pair have gone to great lengths to hide the true nature of their relationship. Rihanna's publicist denied the "pair are a couple."
I'm curious as to why Rihanna's body guards were able to 'beat' this guy for doing his job? I'm in the position where I want to scoop an exclusive, it's the nature of the industry that I am in.
As an elite person, Rihanna like any other celebs have to respect is this pap was only doing his job, and interfering paps and journos comes with the celeb industry. In recent cases it seems celebrities enjoy physically lashing out at paps.
In a classic case, a deranged Britney Spears attacked a pap with an umbrella for taking a picture of her. Funny and unusual it seems, it is frightening for the person who is on the receiving end of a punch and who maybe sued by the court for intervening.
The courts take seriously cases of media intervention. However where is the punishment when a celeb or bodyguard imposes physical violence on the media? It begs the question as to whether the law should restrict the power in which bodyguards/celebs can impose on media people?
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