BRENTWOOD, Calif. – Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Reese Witherspoon is expected to be interviewed by Los Angeles police sometime this week. The police want to question Ms. Witherspoon regarding the discovery of a festering body believed to be that of paparazzo Todd Wallace.
Mr. Wallace was charged with five misdemeanor counts and one felony count after crashing the birthday party of five-year-old Eva Witherspoon, the actress’ daughter, at Disney’s California Adventure last September.
According to friends of Mr. Wallace, his body was discovered in his Brentwood apartment. Los Angeles police confirmed that a body had been found, but they were unable to identify it as Mr. Wallace’s because of the state of the corpse. Police did say, however, that they had ruled out suicide because all of the dead person’s fingers had been hacked off and a Nikon telephoto lens had been stuffed down his throat.
Mr. Wallace sneaked into Eva Witherspoon’s birthday party last September disguised as Ronald McDonald in an attempt to obtain photos of the child and her actress mother. When he was asked to put his camera away, he allegedly became enraged. He allegedly swung his camera at several children, allegedly reducing them to tears. He was charged with five misdemeanor counts of brandishing a camera in a non-professional manner and one felony count of making children cry in a theme park. The latter offense is punishable by life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in California under the terms of the state’s 2004 Mickey Mouse law.
When Ms. Witherspoon filed charges against Mr. Wallace, she alleged that her daughter was so traumatized by the event she now cries hysterically whenever she is riding in a car that passes a McDonald’s.
“I just can’t shake the felling that she’s just a little child from Tennessee,” said Ms. Witherspoon.
Mr. Wallace, through his attorney, Sam Batista, denied the charges.
“My client was merely acting in self-
defense,” said Mr. Batista. “Perhaps the little brat cries when she passes a McDonald’s because she’s hungry. When this thing gets to court, Witherspoon’s gonna take it on the chin.”
Friends of Mr. Wallace, if indeed it was he who was discovered in his apart-
ment, are saddened by news of his alleged death.
“Todd was a professional,” said a fellow paparazzo who, for reasons of personal safety, did not wish to be identified. “He was always willing to go the extra mile. I remember he sat in a Port-A-Potty on Jennifer Aniston’s estate for a day and a half before he finally got a shot of her sunbathing in the nude.”
A police spokeswoman said Ms. Witherspoon was not a suspect in Mr. Wallace’s alleged murder.
“She’s merely a person of interest at this time,” said the spokes-
woman. “It may be purely coincidental that Mr. Wallace or whoever it was that was found dead in his apartment had angered Ms. Witherspoon recently.”
A source close to the police department said the Los Angeles police were aware that the two Chanel employees who were involved in sending Ms. Witherspoon a dress for the Golden Globe awards that had been worn to the Globes three years earlier by Kirsten Dunst have failed to report to work since then.
Mr. Wallace’s death is the latest in a series of incidents in which paparazzi have been injured or threatened in the line of duty. Last Saturday actor Mark Ruffalo is reported to have removed the memory card from the camera of a paparazzo who was attempting to take pictures at Chris Penn’s funeral. Mr. Ruffalo, who threatened to “stick this sucker up your f-stop,” was restrained by several mourners.
In related news, Los Angeles police say it is too early to determine if there is any connection between the “suspicious death” of Todd Wallace and the still unsolved shooting of a paparazzo near Britney Spear’s estate last August.
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