Paparazzi Video

Jude Law reacted like any father would when he spied a cameraman filming him with his ex-wife, Sadie Frost, and three kids at two separate locations around Los Angeles on Saturday.

In the video, Frost seems to spot the cameraman and points him out to Law. Later, Jude decides to confront the cameraman, apparently not happy about the fact his children were being photographed.

After threatening the photog ("I'll have you up for pedophilia!"), Law questions the cameraman about filming his kids, and the cameraman claims he didn't realize he was filming them. Law then appears to slap the camera, saying, "Look in your f***ing camera!"

April 3, 2006 6:20PM ET
Ryan Seacrest shared his cotton candy Saturday, but not with Teri Hatcher. Instead, Seacrest was hangin' with her 'Desperate Housewives' co-star, Eva Longoria, at the Spurs' NBA game in San Antonio after jetting to the Texas town aboard a private jet.

There's no need to start the rumor mill, though -- the pair was on hand to cheer Eva's longtime boyfriend, Tony Parker, as he led his Spurs to victory over the Washington Wizards. That's a fact Ryan might not know, as he was spotted leaving at halftime.

Britney Spears drove herself to a ballet class in Malibu Wednesday, and took son Sean along for the ride. You'll see from the video that Britney learned her lesson --

Sean was safely strapped in his car seat.
The songstress was driving a white PT Cruiser. P.S. Britney looked pretty great.

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Nick stops traffic in Hollywood

(Mar. 27) -- Nick Lachey was out Saturday night with two women, and from the vantage point of TMZ cameraman Josh Levine, it looks like Nick might be dating one of them.

Nick showed up at Teddy's, a nightclub which is a celebrity favorite at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. He was accompanied by a driver/bodyguard and two women. Nick, who is in the midst of a divorce with Jessica Simpson, seemed like his old self -- relaxed, and up for a good time.

The stars continue to pour out for LA Fashion Week as Bebe and Yana K presented their collections last night.

The Bebe collection, inspired by tulips, drew Mischa Barton, LaToya Jackson, Angelica Huston, Courtney Love, Mya and Sheila E.

Madonna, a huge fan of the line, was rumored to be attending but did not show. However, her stylist, Arianne Phillips, did and said that she was assembling from Bebe the performance outfits for Madonna's 2006 tour.

At least 10 LAPD vice officers raided club Mood in Hollywood early Thursday morning, and TMZ caught all the action on tape.

One woman was arrested, cuffed and taken into custody. An LAPD detective told TMZ that she was underage and inside the club with two fake IDs.

Under California law, no one under 21 is allowed inside Mood.

In January, TMZ got a photo of 18-year-old singer Jesse McCartney drinking a Corona inside Mood.

Jack Nicholson went straight from his courtside Laker seat to his daughter Jennifer's fashion show at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, Calif. on Wednesday night.

The show also brought out Jack's ex, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rebecca De Mornay, Lisa Rinna, and Paula Abdul.

Is Britney Spears pregnant? Spears added fuel to the fire Tuesday night in Las Vegas by partying the night away and never letting a drop of alcohol touch her lips.

Brit and K-Fed, flanked by a phalanx of security, celebrated his 28th birthday by renting out a portion of the VIP section at Pure nightclub at Caesar's Palace. Coincidentally, Jamie-Lynn Sigler ('The Sopranos') had reserved another section of the VIP lounge. FYI -- the two groups never mixed.

Britney Spears and hubby Kevin Federline celebrated K-Fed's birthday Tuesday night at Tao Restaurant in Las Vegas. TMZ obtained this video, showing the craziness surrounding the latest Britney sighting.

There were eight -- count them, eight -- security guards at the ready as the couple went out on the town.

For the record, Federline is now 28.

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Britney's guards swarmed the Malibu Country Mart, site of the Malibu Starbucks which is popular with celebs and close to Brit's property, all day Friday, filming the paparazzi. The guards were allegedly driving Kevin's black Audi, at times switching cars to what appears to be Britney's Escalade.

Click here to see the video of the day's events unfolding

According to our sources, an altercation occurred between a paparazzo named "Agnon" and one of Brit's guards, and Malibu police tell TMZ that they're now investigating the issue.

Agnon claims that at one point Friday Brit's guards tried to force him off of the road.

After police arrived at the parking lot scene where the incident took place and spoke to papararzzi who were witnesses, they followed the Escalade back to Brit's property, and were seen entering her property.

Britney Spears has taken responsibility -- well, some of it -- for driving with her baby son, Sean Preston, sitting in her lap.

"I made a mistake and so it is what it is, I guess," Spears tells "Access Hollywood" in an interview that was to air Thursday.

Several photos published Tuesday showed Spears driving her sport utility vehicle in Malibu, Calif., with her 4-month-old son perched on her lap rather than strapped into a car seat in the back seat.

The 24-year-old pop star said she did it because of a "horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi."

In response, X17, the agency that snapped the pictures, said they were snapped "in a very peaceful context, in which photographers exhibited no aggressive behavior."

"Being put in the situation that I was in, it was kind of bad with the paparazzi," Spears tells "Access Hollywood." "Last week, my mom and I went out and they were on us really bad, so you instinctively do what you need to do."

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has said it won't pursue any charges.

Lord Stevens, the former head of London's Metropolitan Police, acknowledged that some of the issues raised by Mohammed al Fayed -- whose son, Dodi, was killed in the 1997 car crash with Diana -- were "right to be raised." He did not elaborate.

Mohammed al Fayed, the owner of London's famous Harrods store, has claimed Diana and his son were killed by British intelligence officials and their deaths resulted from a plot instigated by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and Diana's former father-in-law.

Stevens, speaking in a recorded interview to Britain's GMTV Sunday Program, did not reveal which of al Fayed's concerns he believed were correct.

"It is right to say that some of the issues that have been raised by Mr. Fayed have been right to be raised," he told the program, to be broadcast Sunday. "We are pursing those. It is a far more complex inquiry than any of us thought."

They may be hated, but their work -- candid pictures of celebs in unguarded moments -- is coveted. They are the paparazzi, purveyors of pix that are the lifeblood of the weekly star-tracking mags and tabs. Their photos demand huge sums of money and are circulated worldwide. And as the public hunger for such glossy grist has grown they've become ever more relentless and ruthless. But starting Jan. 1, there'll be some new reins on the paparazzi parade.

That's when a new California law goes into effect that increases penalties against overly aggressive photographers -- dubbed "stalkerazzi" -- who forcefully thrust their cameras into famous faces or crash their car into a celebrity's vehicle. They'll now be liable for three times the damages they inflict, plus lose any payments their published photos might earn. Publishers can also be held liable.

"Now the paparazzi are going to have to think twice about chasing down a celebrity anywhere in California," said Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez, who drafted the bill, which was signed into law in October by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (The former actor had an infamous paparazzi moment in 1998 when they used their cars to surround his SUV as he and wife Maria Shriver picked up their child from school.)

The new law was inspired by a rash of recent celebrity car chases, Montanez said. In May, a photographer following Lindsay Lohan crashed into the actress' car in West Los Angeles. The photographer was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, but prosecutors found insufficient evidence to press charges.

In August, actress Scarlett Johansson was involved in a minor car crash in a Disneyland parking lot after being followed by paparazzi, and actress Reese Witherspoon said photographers tried to run her car off the road in April. No criminal charges resulted from those incidents, but the Los Angeles District Attorney's office continues to investigate paparazzi photographers' aggressive tactics, said spokeswoman Jane Robison.

Montanez said the new legislation "targets those who break the law in their attempt to get the photograph."

While some celebrity shooters think the new law is needed to curb increasingly aggressive behavior, others call it unfair and unnecessary. And it may even be unconstitutional.

Though the legislation is aimed at paparazzi photographers, it could have "a chilling effect" on newspapers and other media, said Jim Ewert, legal counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

"This law now gives (celebrities) the ability to quash a photograph, and potentially a story (resulting from the photograph), with a frivolous lawsuit in an attempt to keep the public from being informed," he said. "The constitution demands a little bit higher standard before the government puts the kibosh on a newspaper's ability to publish that story."

Montanez insists the law was "specifically crafted in a way so there is no infringement on the rights of journalists."

"This is about paparazzi who wait and hunt the celebrities, their prey, until they catch the celebrity in a state of compromise," she said. "They engage in assaultive behavior, and we can't condone that."

Longtime celebrity photographer Frank Griffin, co-owner of the Bauer-Griffin photo agency -- which bills itself as "The Hollywood Hunt Club" -- said existing laws already cover attempted assaults and that the new legislation unfairly targets celebrity photographers.

"Why should there be different standards for a hard-news photographer and a celebrity photographer?" he asked.

With the proliferation of photo-filled, celebrity-centered magazines, more paparazzi have emerged to fill the pages with images of the rich and famous. The more exclusive the photo, the bigger the paycheck, said former celebrity photographer Brad Elterman.

Shots of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner with their new baby, for example, could be worth $500,000, he said. Even less-exclusive pics of hot stars can sell for $10,000 or more.

"The business is driven by money," Elterman said. "The guys who take the pictures don't care how they get the photo because they have nothing to lose."

Jim Ruymen, a Los Angeles photographer for 30 years who worked as "a photojournalist by day and a paparazzo at night," said paparazzi photography has always been intrusive, but increasing competition has led to more in-your-face tactics. There might be "15 to 20 cars outside someone's house, waiting for them to leave so you can chase them down," he said.

"Part of the paparazzi act is you really have to have no conscience. You've got to rein these guys in, so we don't have a Diana here in Southern California," he said, referring to Princess Diana, who was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997 as paparazzi pursued her vehicle. Investigators later found that the driver of Diana's car was intoxicated and speeding.

Celebrities are likely to appreciate the new legislation, though none of their publicists returned calls for comment here.

George Clooney, an outspoken defender of the first amendment yet a critic of overzealous photographers, has said that being photographed is the price one pays for celebrity, but some tabloids take things too far.

"If you say to someone, 'I'll give you $400,000 for the first picture of Madonna's baby,' there are lots of people who are willing to break the law to do that," Clooney told CNN in 2003.

The new legislation amends a bill passed in 1998 that established the concept of "constructive trespass" for photojournalists. It said that using a long lens to capture an image of a person who had "a reasonable expectation of privacy" was tantamount to trespassing.

Ewert, counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Assn., questioned the constitutionality of that law, but it has not been challenged in court, he said. Laws are presumed valid until challenged.

The new legislation, which expands what constitutes invasion of privacy, "is probably even more unconstitutional, if that's possible," Ewert said.