Word: paparazzi
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...being the most photographed woman in the world, but her linking up with Dodi al Fayed had thrown the scavengers of celebrity into a heightened state of alert. When she took her two sons to vacation with Al Fayed's family at his St. Tropez villa in July, paparazzi followed by land, sea and air; "the kiss" in the sparkling Mediterranean waters was on the front pages of tabloids on three continents...
...between the photo hounds and the princess had gone completely by the board, as the street value of a grainy shot of Diana with Al Fayed reached six figures. The stalking had become so bad that two weeks ago Diana disclosed that the idea of leaving Britain and its paparazzi had crossed her mind. "Any sane person would have left long ago," she told the French newspaper Le Monde. "But I cannot. I have my sons...
...sons don't have her, and part of the blame has to be placed squarely on the lunacy of publications paying exorbitant amounts for whatever the paparazzi can get by whatever means. The photographers in hot pursuit of the couple into a tunnel under the Seine were quickly arrested, but none of the publications that buy their pictures have so far been taken into custody. If the publications don't buy, the photographers won't shoot. Steve Coz, editor of the National Enquirer, says he swore off overly aggressive photographers a year ago when he saw the scrum that formed...
...Kennedy but just in the movies, you are also fair game--although the stars tend to fight back. George Clooney urged a boycott of Paramount Pictures TV shows because of their use of video paparazzi footage of him and his girlfriend. Alec Baldwin scuffled with a photographer who confronted his wife Kim Basinger and their newborn daughter as they came home from the hospital. Robert De Niro, Will Smith and Woody Harrelson have all fought with the shooters...
...offer. His father owned the hotel they dined at, the yacht they sailed on, the villa at which they vacationed, the jet on which they flew there, a department store to shop in. And yet the very act of taking up with him raised her news value dramatically. The paparazzi were willing to do anything to capture...