Jude Law Hits Photographer in Face in London

Cited: Daily News

It seems that Jude Law may be in trouble with the police.  He is definitely in trouble with Harsha Gopal, a photographer that is filing an official complaint against him for hitting her in the head in London.  She filed the complaint at the Charing Cross police station according to the London Paper.

“I felt his hand come across my face,” she says. “It was really loud – there was a massive thud and my face is still stinging.”  She is accusing Law, 36, of hitting her in the face after she snapped pix of him outside a restaurant in Mayfair on Wednesday.

Unfortunately, for the “Alfie” star, fellow photogs snapped incriminating images that show the irate-looking actor baring his teeth as his hand makes contact with Gopal’s head.  The shocking pix were plastered across some English tabloid covers.  That night, fellow shutterbugs surrounded the star outside of the Wyndham Theatre in Convent Garden.

“When Jude left the theater photographers started booing and hissing at him, holding up newspapers with pictures of Jude and Harsha on the front page,” one witness tells PerezHilton.com. “There were a few who wanted to stand up to Jude – they were demanding he apologize.”

Law insists he already did, and that the accident has been blown out of proportion.  Law’s lawyer, Graham Shear, released a statement calling the claims “nonsense.”

“[Wednesday] night’s incident was an accident,” wrote Shear. “Jude was blinded by the camera flashes when he left the restaurant, raised his hand to shield himself and inadvertently struck somebody standing very close. He apologized and left. Pictures of this sort can often be misleading.”

The actor had another run-in with paparazzi snappers back in 2007, when he was arrested on suspicion of causing bodily harm after trying to yank a camera from a photographer’s hands outside of his home in London. He was released without being charged.

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British actor Jude Law has denied punching a female photographer during an evening out in London, insisting the incident was an “accident.”  The Alfie star was surrounded by snappers as he exited Automat nightclub in the early hours of Thursday morning.  He was accused of hitting an unnamed woman photographer on the head and slapping her in the face as she tried to take his picture.  But the star insists he was blinded by camera flashes and didn’t mean to strike the female with his flailing arm.

A statement from his lawyer, Graham Shear, reads, “This is all nonsense. Last night’s incident was an accident. Jude was blinded by the camera flashes when he left the restaurant, raised his hand to shield himself and inadvertently struck somebody standing very close.  He apologized and left. Pictures of this sort can often be misleading.”

Law was previously accused of assaulting a paparazzi photographer in 2007 – he was arrested on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm after attempting to grab a camera outside his London home. He was later released without charge.

Law is the latest in a long line of celebrities who have endured scuffles with the paparazzi. Lily Allen was cautioned by the police in 2009 for assaulting a snapper outside her home, and the incident later caused her problems in obtaining a U.S. work visa.  In March this year she was granted a court order banning the paparazzi from getting too close following another scuffle with the press.

And rapper Kanye West twice fell afoul of the law when he tussled with photographers at LAX airport, Los Angeles in September 2008 and in Newcastle, north England in November 2008.

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My Take: I can actually see both sides of this coin.  People want to know what their idols are doing, good or bad.  However, those idols also deserve their own privacy.  When that privacy is invaded, they get just a little bit irate.  The way the paparazzi swarm around them is just a little bit too much.

People can be very fanatical about their idols and will go to places where they can download movies free just to see them.  Some people will get movie downloads repeatedly of one particular actor or actress because they are fanatical.  Paparazzi’s can be just as fanatical as fans.  I understand that some paparazzi actually go so far as breaking into homes of famous people to get their photographs.  This I believe is wrong.

Some fans even will make a DVD copy of a movie and then put the original a way to keep it safe.  LA music CD duplication is on the rise for fans of Michael Jackson even.  The reason is that they want their original CD to remain intact.  The lengths that fans go to, to get information about their idols and to preserve the things their idols make, both music and movies, is amazing.

However, I believe that every country should do its best to put in some kind of regulation or law that controls the paparazzi to some extent while preserving the freedom of the press.  This is going to be an almost impossible task.

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