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Rapper Kanye West had yet another run-in with the law, as he was arrested for allegedly assaulting a photographer as he was leaving a nightclub in Newcastle, England.
According to breaking press reports, “the hip-hop star is said to have been involved in a scuffle with the paparazzi as he exited the Tup Tup club in the early hours of Friday morning (November 14).”
In celebrity legal news, Tila Tequila’s girlfriend Courtenay Semel had a run in with the law last night (August 20).
The 28-year-old daughter of former Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel and star of E!’s Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive was cited for battery after allegedly striking a hotel security guard in Las Vegas.
As previously reported by the Gossip Girls, back on July 21st Christian Bale was arrested on charges of assaulting his mother and sister in a London hotel. And today (August 14) it is being reported that those charges have been dropped.
According to England’s Crown Prosecution Service, there is to be no further action taken against the “Dark Knight” stud by police due to an insufficient amount of evidence.
“The Dark Knight” star Christian Bale has been arrested after allegedly assaulting his mother and sister at their shared hotel on Sunday night.
According to breaking press reports, Bale is alleged to have attacked his mother Jenny, 61, and sister Sharon, 40, at London’s Dorchester Hotel - with the pair filing their allegation at a police station in Hampshire, England yesterday.
She’s a dream on the fashion show runway but a nightmare when it comes to her temper. And earlier today (Friday June 20th) Naomi Campbell pled guilty to assaulting two police officers in London’s Heathrow Airport.
The charges she copped to, stemming from an incident this past April, were two counts of assaulting a police constable, one count of using threatening, abusive words or behavior to cabin crew, and one count of using insulting, abusive, threatening behavior or disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress.
She’s got a temper that just won’t quit, and it has landed her in trouble again. And according to her lawyer Naomi Campbell has finally been charged with assaulting a police officer at London’s Heathrow Airport.
In addition to her assault charge, the gorgeous supermodel also faces one count of disorderly conduct, as well as one count of using threatening, abusive words or behavior towards airline staff.
In an episode that was simultaneously poignant, noble, and hilariously out of touch, old New York Times reporter David Dunlap—who is always on the lookout for "illegal marketing campaigns"— says he "sensed a story on the evening of the 14th, when I came across two or three young men stapling posters for a new hip-hop album to lampposts." He started taking pictures of them, and they asked him what he was doing. He replied that what they were doing was illegal; then a guy attacked him and smashed his camera [City Room via FishbowlNY]! Dunlap got pushed down and roughed up, but is unharmed. And he refuses to press charges, because he's so grateful that they didn't stomp him out or rob him at the same time!
I'm not inclined to press charges. While my assailant's actions were frightening, they resulted in part from what he interpreted as provocation: that is, my taking pictures after he had explicitly warned me not to. He did not take my wallet, cash or briefcase; something he could easily have done while I was on the ground. Nor do I recall him using much more force than was needed to wrest the camera from me. He didn't kick me gratuitously when I was down. He did what he threatened to do, but no more.In the greater scheme of things, my quarrel isn't with him, anyway. It's with the suits who made the decision in the first place to undertake an illegal marketing campaign.
Dunlap's conviction that he had stumbled on a grand story by discovering the Street Marketing industry is comical; but his reporting instincts are admirable. Overall he sounds like an incredibly nice man. You must read his entire account of the situation, which is just priceless. David Dunlap, we got your back!
[pic via City Room]
She’s always been ahead of her time artistically-speaking, but quirky singer Bjork may have to slow down and deal with a lawsuit stemming from an alleged assault on a photographer in New Zealand.
Yesterday morning in NZ capital Auckland, the “Big Time Sensuality” singer reportedly tore the shirt off the back of a paparazzo who tried to take her picture at the airport.
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who has consistently won praise for, among other things, his compassionate coverage of Hurricane Katrina and his pretty, pretty hair, has signed a $7 million-per-year deal with Fox News to continue anchoring his show. This kind of cash, which catapults Smith into the pay range of network news anchors like Brian Williams, could come in handy the next time Smith has to pay off a reporter after assaulting her with his motor vehicle or fend off a crazysexyfoolish neo-con stalker!