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Photographer Bashes Bruce for Alleged Bash
Bruce Willis wanted food, not a fight.
That's Willis' side of the story after a photographer went public with accusations that the Die Hard star shoved the man's own camera into his face Tuesday night outside a trendy Los Angeles restaurant.
Anthony Goodrich formalized his battery complaint in a police report filed Wednesday in Hollywood, Los Angeles police confirmed. The matter will be investigated by detectives and possibly sorted out in the next day or two, officer Adrian Maxwell said.
Per the police document, posted on TMZ.com, which first reported the photographer's allegations, Goodrich claims he was assaulted at about 10 p.m., Tuesday on the sidewalk outside Koi, the Japanese eatery frequented by Paris Hilton and paparazzi.
"Basically, he smashed my camera into my face...for no reason at all," Goodrich told TMZ.com. "All I was doing was taking his picture. I didn't say one word. I didn't get in his way."
Goodrich moved in front of the lens to pose for the Website's camera. In two pictures posted on TMZ.com, he showed off a line across the bridge of his nose, and an imperfect or "chipped" left central incisor (that's the big tooth, top row, left of center).
Willis' publicist, Paul Bloch, said Wednesday that if anything happened between the actor and Goodrich, "it was inadvertent."
The actor, Bloch said, "was blinded going in [the restaurant] by the [camera] light. He put his hand up to guide himself."
"He didn't hit anybody, he didn't scratch anybody, he didn't come after anybody--period," Bloch said.
Bloch said a restaurant security guard would corroborate Willis' account.
Willis attorney Martin Singer said the actor was "evaluating" a defamation lawsuit against the photographer.
While the 51-year-old Willis is on the record of not being a fan of celeb-centric publications such as Us Weekly, he does not have a record for physically bashing their photographers.
Last August, a celebrity photographer also by the name of Anthony Goodrich went on record about the tensions between celebs and photographers, telling the Los Angeles Times he was "always on guard."
"For every action, there's a reaction. So, if my action is taking pictures, I'd better expect a reaction," the paparazzo said in the Times.
In another article, one week later in the same newspaper, an Anthony Goodrich said he and his camera had been on celebrity-watch at Koi every night for several months.
"We get a threat at least once a night. We get threats from the owner [of the restaurant], we get threats from all the doormen," Anthony Goodrich said. "They always say they're going to call the cops if we don't stand to one side of the sidewalk."
At the time, Koi was cracking down on the paparazzi, and making good on its vow to call police with trespassing complaints. Anthony Goodrich told the Times that the key was to not block the entrance--"that would be stupid because we want people to come and go so we can take their pictures."
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