LOS ANGELES – A photographer shot near the groin with a pellet gun while chatting with friends in Malibu Saturday night has brought criminal charges against Britney Spears. According to papers filed in a Los Angeles County court, Brad Diaz, 33, accused Spears of “willfully and repeatedly stalking the plaintiff, thereby causing him mental anguish, endangering his safety, and interfering with his ability to earn a living.” Diaz’ suit also names Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Simpson, Nicole Ritchie, Jennifer Aniston, and more than a dozen other celebrities as co-conspirators.
Diaz is employed as “a human interest photographer” by the Bauer-Griffin Agency of Los Angeles. He appeared on crutches outside his modest Brentwood bungalow Sunday morning to talk with reporters after he had been released from the emergency trauma unit of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Diaz explained that even though his complaint does not name Spears as the person who shot him, her continual stalking and disregard of his right to privacy have created “a climate of lawlessness in which the assault on personal liberty can thrive.”
Diaz told reporters that his troubles with Spears began in August 2004 when he was having a drink with a few friends near the swimming pool of a posh Beverly Hills hotel. Suddenly Spears appeared on a fifteenth-floor balcony with her future second husband Kevin Federline. Spears began engaging in what appeared to be “a private consensual act,” said Diaz. “Then she leaped to her feet and started screaming at me and my friends to get the hell out of there.”
Rather than risk a confrontation with hotel security, Diaz and his friends retreated to the hotel bar, missing an opportunity to photograph members of the Beverly Hills High School synchronized swimming team rehearsing in the hotel pool.
“That missed assignment alone cost me thousands of dollars in commissions,” said Diaz. “Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated were all interested in photos from that training session.”
In addition to describing numerous encounters with Spears that have “compromised my ability to earn a living,” Diaz cited instances when Cameron Diaz (no relation), Leonardo DiCaprio, and other celebrities “appear to have conspired with the defendant to show up uninvited at locations where the plaintiff had gone to photograph children’s parties, holiday parades, family reunions, and other gatherings at which human interest photo opportunities might be forthcoming.”
Asked if he saw a pattern behind the appearance of Spears and other celebrities at places where he was trying to do “an honest day’s work,” Diaz replied, “You tell me.” Then he explained that he can’t even make a detour to stop at the Malibu Kitchen on his way home from an assignment “without Britney Spears or some other celebrity showing up” and sitting provocatively close to Diaz—a practice known in legal terms as “creating an attractive nuisance.”.
“A couple of celebrities have even gone so far as to track my movements in order to find the places where I’m most likely to shop,” said Diaz.
In related news, Galo Cesar Ramirez, the wedding photographer whose minivan struck the driver’s side door of Lindsay Lohan’s Mercedes-Benz SL65 Coupe near Beverly Hills in late June, said yesterday that he has photograph of Lohan that will prove she was talking on a cell phone and driving without a seat belt when she swerved into his lane causing the accident.
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