Celebrity Justice
Keanu's Not So Excellent Lawsuit

Keanu Reeves has been smacked with a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages, courtesy of a paparazzo he rammed with his Porsche.

TMZ has the court papers filed just hours ago by Alison Silva, a Brazilian snapper who says the "Matrix" star struck him (yup, Alison's a guy) in the knee on March 19, 2007 -- outside a clinic in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.

At the time, Keanu was reportedly handcuffed, but it is unclear if he was charged.

Story developing ...

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61.

Idiotic paps! If someone is in a car, the car is in gear, that means they intend to DRIVE the car. GET OUT OF THE WAY! STOP TAKING PICTURES. GET OFF THE CAR.

Otherwise......

it's "snapper" for lunch.

Just go away.

Posted at 9:25AM on Nov 6th 2007 by OCD

62. These people are touching the cars with there body parts trying to get pictures and they wonder wyhy they get hurt! No one should be able to file a lawsuit b/c there to close to someone elses car! Keanu should sue this person for loss of time

Posted at 12:39PM on Nov 6th 2007 by MJ

63. It should be legal to hit paparazzi. Repeatedly.

Posted at 10:26AM on Nov 6th 2007 by josh

64. Hopefully the judge will throw this out. If the paps don't want run over, then get the frick out of the way! They seem to think all they have to do is jump in front of a celebrity's car, and they can force them to stop for pictures. I'm all for banging up a few of these parasites and maybe then they'll develope a little common sense. These celebrities don't owe us anything except a good job of acting when we plunk down our dollars in the movie theater. To expect anything more is just sour grapes because we aren't them.

Posted at 10:55AM on Nov 6th 2007 by Tristania

65. Good Going Mr. Reeves is all I have to say.

Maybe they should started to run over Paparazzi instead of just hit them in the future and they might get a hint that they need to give some people freedom to live and move around.

I bet no jury is going to find in favor of this paparazzi and maybe it will send a message to the rest of them to back off finally.

Posted at 11:06AM on Nov 6th 2007 by Jeff

66. eh, keanu "kenny" reeves won't be inconvenienced that much. he's a famous hollywood movie star and he's loaded and the local judicial officers will lay down and roll in his feces before actually fining him or reprimanding him in any significant way.

paps contribute nothing and only perpetuate this culture of gossip and manufactured images.

Posted at 11:22AM on Nov 6th 2007 by silver shoes

67. Alison Silva is lying!!! See the clip of the Fantastico, Brazilian show that did a story with the papparazzo only a few days after the accident. Alison was working, fine and without ANY injury! See for yourself!

http://fantastico.globo.com/Jornalismo/Fantastico/0,,AA1499789-4005-656518-0-25032007,00.html

Posted at 11:41AM on Nov 6th 2007 by Sandra

68. Ok...this is the most awesome video of a blond bombshell.

Keanu's next girlfriend Fur Sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEwCUoUBkM

Posted at 12:10PM on Nov 6th 2007 by SFMitch

69. wow neo. what happened

Posted at 12:15PM on Nov 6th 2007 by www.sugar-shoes.co.uk

70. There paps are ridiculous the way they hound and chase these stars and stand right in front of cars so the person can't drive away. The pap will lose or it will get thrown out as frivilous.

BTW, Keanu is set to film THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL in Canada. Wish the studios would get creative and stop doing remakes. No wonder I don't go to the movies anymore.

Posted at 1:23PM on Nov 6th 2007 by MARK

71. That is a $50 buck slap down Keanu! Looking for your charity now....

Posted at 1:41PM on Nov 6th 2007 by so what?

72. Maybe if Mr. Silva (the photog) was paying attention to his surroundings he wouldn't have gotten hit. Proves that you can't fix stupid.

Posted at 5:16PM on Nov 6th 2007 by Granny J

73. I don't think paps should be physically hurt intentionally, but there should be more laws about the rash and aggressive actions they take.

As for Keanu, all the articles at the time said he was /not/ arrested, he was never charged, he /certainly/ wasn't handcuffed, and that he'd done nothing wrong. A number of reports said the car Keanu was driving was moving too slowly to have hurt him even if it did "graze" him, which is all any report ever said it did.

It's nuts the way the paps stalk and harass stars, and it's nuts the way tabloids try to blow things out of proportion to make stars look bad. Keanu wasn't handcuffed and he didn't "ram" anyone. Report the truth, don't make things up just to create drama where there isn't any.

Posted at 11:51PM on Nov 6th 2007 by Rachel

74. Hope it all ends well. And all this posts are so very enjoyable! That Silva should try and surf the net - without getting injured in the attempt, if possible - and have a look. :D

Posted at 7:14PM on Feb 13th 2008 by rossana

75. The photographer was asking for it. Stupid...

Posted at 8:43AM on Nov 20th 2007 by Joyce

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