Nicole Kidman has a run-in with a paparazzo -- literally -- while returning to her New York hotel on September 12. The Oscar-winning actress reportedly was knocked to the ground by a photographer on a bike, and Kidman lost her shoes in the process. She's not the only celebrity who's had paparazzi woes ...
Stars and photographers sometimes have contentious relationships. Around 12:30 p.m. on August 27, both Alec Baldwin and a photographer called the police to report an incident. It seems a standoff ensued after the photographer got too close for Baldwin's liking while he was with his wife, Hilaria, who just gave birth to their daughter Carmen.
When dating in the mid-2000s, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz were a magnet for problems with the paparazzi. Timberlake and Diaz were hit with a lawsuit in 2004 after two photographers accused the couple of taunting and attacking them. That lawsuit reportedly was later settled, but the pair were again in an alleged confrontation with the paparazzi in September 2006.
Ashton Kutcher has a rocky history with the paparazzi that extends all the way back to a confrontation in 2005, pictured here. Then last year, Kutcher was videotaped shoving a photographer -- although he did stop to make sure the guy was OK before getting into his car.
Former "CSI" star Gary Dourdan gets into a brawl with a paparazzo outside a Los Angeles nightclub in 2007. According to TMZ, the photographer worked for its website and provoked Dourdan simply by standing nearby with a camera.
Miley Cyrus is an outspoken critic of the paparazzi, and in March 2011 she let one photographer have it. After a cameraman bumped into Cyrus' mother, Tish, outside a restaurant in West Hollywood, Cyrus reached for his equipment and sternly told him, "You almost hurt my mom -- don't ever do that again."
Britney Spears' career has rebounded from her 2007 meltdown, but the star has yet to live down her infamous run-in with the paparazzi that year. Newly bald after shaving her head at a California salon that February, Spears attacked a paparazzo's car with an umbrella outside the home of her ex, Kevin Federline, in Tarzana.
Halle Berry has testified in support of California legislation that would limit a photographer's ability to take pictures of a celebrity's kids, saying her daughter, Nahla, doesn't want to go to school because she "knows 'the men' are watching for her," a report says. Her testimony followed a heated exchange with paps at the Los Angeles airport in April when she was with Nahla and her future husband, Olivier Martinez. "Get away there's a child," Berry could be heard saying. "What the f**k is wrong with you people?"
The Los Angeles airport is a hotbed for confrontations between celebrities and the paparazzi. In 2009, Mike Tyson was involved in a scuffle with a photographer who said he'd been following the boxer-turned-actor "at a respectful distance."
Singer Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, aren't always smiles when they see the paparazzi trailing them. In January 2012, Hart faced off with a cameraman after Pink reportedly gave photographers the middle finger. This year, Hart was once again involved in a showdown with a paparazzo.
In an interview with The Independent magazine, British singer Lily Allen said she feels like "a caged animal" because of the cameras that trail her every move. In March 2009, Allen lashed out at a photographer after he allegedly ran into the back of her car.
Sean Penn lost it when a photographer was waiting near his pickup in 2010. The actor was at a Los Angeles shopping center when he spotted the cameraman and began kicking at him. Penn eventually reached a plea deal over the incident, but it wasn't the first time he's found himself in hot water with the paparazzi. The Oscar winner did a monthlong bid in 1987 for assaulting a paparazzo.
Coldplay's Chris Martin was seeing red rather than "Yellow" in January 2008. Martin was exiting a New York hospital with his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, when he encountered a photographer (not pictured here). The singer was captured on video clashing with the paparazzo and trying to take his camera.
Adam Lambert's trip to Miami in September 2010 captured headlines when he reportedly got into a tussle with a photographer. The "American Idol" alum later tweeted about the incident, "I lost my temper for a sec but wow it felt great lol MIAMI!!!"
Justin Bieber was having a bad birthday week when he lost it on photographers while in London in March. "I'll f*****g beat the f*** out of you!" the clearly upset 19-year-old threatened a paparazzo, who was spewing choice words of his own. Bieber's bodyguard tried to restrain the pop star.
- Bullock supports new law that increase penalties for paparazzi harassing children
- California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on Tuesday
- Bullock immortalized her hand and footprints in Hollywood
- She defends decision to bring her son Louis Bardot to media event
(CNN) -- Sandra Bullock is one of the highest-profile actresses in Hollywood and also one of the world's most photographed moms. It's hard to pick up a tabloid that doesn't feature a photo of the Oscar-winner with her adopted 3-year-old son, Louis Bardot. And now Bullock is speaking out in support of a new law that increases penalties for paparazzi harassing the children of celebrities.
"We are fair game, I get it," Bullock told CNN at her handprint and footprint ceremony outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday. "Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold. You're taking a picture of a child and selling it!"
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the bill, which increases the penalties for intentional harassment of a child because of their parents' employment.
The effort gained momentum after actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner testified before the California Assembly Judiciary Committee in August to support the bill. The pair opened up about the hellish conditions faced by their children as a result of aggressive paparazzi.
Sandra Bullock on "Paparazzi Bill"
Bullock commends the two on their fight.
"I think it's brilliant," she explains."The girls worked so hard, the attorney worked so hard, and I think it's a good sign."
According to a release from the governor's office, the new law "increases the maximum jail time for harassment of a child or ward because of the person's employment from six months in the county jail to a year in the county jail."
It also imposes increasingly stiff fines: For a first violation, a fine not to exceed $10,000. For a second violation, it's $20,000. For a third violation, it's $30,000.
The "Gravity" star made a rare choice to bring young Louis with her to a media event, a decision Bullock is quick to defend.
"Today, I brought him out because this was a family day. It was the one exception that I make."
"And this way," she continued, "when he's 16 and he hates me, I can take him to this moment and say, 'Look, people said really nice things about your mother...' "
The current Vogue magazine cover star reveals her son becomes fearful for his own safety and that of his mom when going out.
"When you go to school, or you're at an airport, the reason he doesn't like this is because he's used to people running at him, and he thinks they're going to hurt mom or hurt him."
Bullock is thankful for the law and what it will mean as a mother and one of the Hollywood's biggest stars.
"This'll be great. This will allow children to be children. ... I'm so grateful."
