Denise Richards Suits Up
How's this for irony: engage in uncivil behavior, get named in a civil suit.
Such is the fate awaiting Denise Richards thanks to a headline-grabbing, laptop-hurling altercation with paparazzi on her Vancouver film set last week, a dustup that resulted in minor physical injuries to two elderly women and major ego injuries to two cameramen.
And, to hear the shutterbugs tell it, their victimization left the more lasting bruises.
Last Thursday, while filming the Farrelly brothers' comedy Blonde and Blonder alongside Pamela Anderson, Richards claimed she was being harassed by two snap-happy photographers, an invasion she remedied by somehow wrangling their laptops away and throwing them off a hotel balcony, inadvertently dropping them more than 30 feet into a group of senior citizens.
The two women, aged 80 and 91, who were swiped by the computers, have decided not to press any criminal charges against the actress, though the two paparazzi have other plans.
"I've hired a lawyer for a civil suit," Canadian photographer Rik Fedyck told the Vancouver Sun. "The suit is about damage to the computers, assault to myself."
Fedyck told the Canuck paper that he had rented a room at Richmond's River Rock Casino and Hotel, where the production was taking place, in order to take candid shots of the film's leading ladies.
He claims at the time of the incident, he was sitting on his third-story balcony, watching Richards and Anderson "having a bit of an argument," which he claims was over whom on set leaked information to the press about Anderson taking a pregnancy test and subsequently suffering a miscarriage, something the former Baywatch star confirmed last week.
"I was not taking the photos," Fedyck told the paper. "I was watching."
He said that mid-conversation, Richards spotted him and his paparazzo colleague Scott Cosman—who was taking the photos—on their perch and unleashed 10 minutes' worth of name-calling their way, letting loose with such cutting barbs as "paparazzi scumbag."
Fedyck said he had no choice but to retaliate to this display of effrontery, at which point Richards—who presumably by this point had made her way to the duo's hotel room—lunged at him and began throwing his equipment off the balcony.
While Fedyck has opted not to reiterate what he claims were innocuous taunts to Richards, Anderson has filled in the conversation gaps in a posting to her online diary.
"Paparazzi were shouting, 'no wonder you can't keep a relationship together' to Denise," she wrote in an entry entitled "Loser Paparazzi." "Denise walked up to them. They threatened her and something happened. A computer bounced off the floor and pieces went everywhere, from what I hear...If it were me I would've thrown the photographers over the edge—they got lucky."
Fedyck and Cosman don't see it that way.
"We had every right to be there," Fedyck told the Sun. "It was a public place. Until we're told we can't take pictures, we can take pictures."
"We've lost time. We've lost money. We've lost equipment," Cosman said, neglecting to mention that the duo had already been reimbursed $13,000 by the film's production company for damage to their computers. "In the public eye, we're being made to look like monsters...I just wish she'd just come clean and say she made a big mistake and say sorry."
Consider it done.
In an interview with Access Hollywood set to air tonight, Charlie Sheen's estranged missus has apologized for her outburst.
"I am not justifying my behavior," she said. "I saw one of the photographers, went up to him and offered to give him a few nice shots and asked him to please leave so we can focus on our scene.
"He wouldn't, and he got really belligerent, and he was saying vulgar, nasty things to me and made a derogatory remark about my family. I just did what I did and I feel terrible."
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