Denise Richards learnt an important lesson this weekend – you can't go around angrily hitting wheelchair-bound old ladies with a photographer's laptop without fear of reprisal, because chances are you'll end up getting sued along with your big-boobed pal.
Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson are both being sued by a couple of photographers after an incident last year where Denise Richards desperately tried to draw everyone's attention away from the useless-looking movie she was starring in by loudly swearing at a couple of photographers before throwing their laptop off a balcony, injuring a 91-year-old woman in a wheelchair in the process. That's why Denise Richards is being sued, anyway – we're not sure why Pamela Anderson has also been roped into the lawsuit. Probably something to do with hepatitis.
Now, our inner 14-year-old would sort of enjoy it if Denise Richards called us "fucking cocksuckers" 15 times in the space of a 20-minute conversation, but we're guessing that Scott Cosman and Rik Fedyck didn't take the same pleasure from it as we would, because they're suing Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson for doing that very thing, which sparked off hands down the best news story 2006.
Think back to last November; specifically the time when, on the already fraught set of rubbish-looking movie Blonde & Blonder, Denise Richards caught a glimpse of some men taking her photo, marched up to confront them, aggressively swore at them and then threw their laptop off a balcony where it landed on an old lady in a wheelchair. Can you think of any news story more perfect than a rage-fuelled Denise Richards hurling a computer at an old lady because someone took her picture? You can't, can you? Anyway, now the two photographers are suing Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson for the incident, as MSNBC reports:
When Richards saw Scott Cosman and Rik Fedyck taking her picture, according to the lawsuit, she became enraged, called them “paparazzi scum” and other names, assaulted them, seized their laptop computers and threw the laptops over a hotel balcony. The confrontation, which lasted more than 20 minutes, was recorded by hotel security cameras, according to the photographers. Afterward, they said, Richards and Anderson “made repeated false and defamatory statements to law enforcement and various media outlets which were deliberately calculated to embarrass, humiliate and ridicule plaintiffs.”… The photographers, who seek unspecified damages, said the incident caused them to lose revenue when clients abandoned them and also caused them emotional stress.
It look a long time for Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson to get sued by the photographers – a lawsuit was being talked about five months ago – but regardless of the case's outcome, the laptop-flinging event shows that you don't mess with a woman under stress. In fact, you'd have thought that the way Denise Richards managed to use her divorce as a chance to vaguely imply that Charlie Sheen was a paedophile who murdered pornstars would have taught the photographers to leave her well alone.
And throughout the Charlie Sheen divorce and the shacking up with Richie Sambora, Denise Richards has been learning the value of privacy – something that seemed to manifest itself in the laptop hurling incident. And it's going to continue, too – throughout Blonde & Blonder's cinema run, Denise Richards will be attending a number of random screenings around the world armed with a bayonet – and if she even so much as catches an audience member invading her privacy by looking directly at her onscreen image, she'll stab them in the throat quicker than you can take your socks off.
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Kippertron says
Blonde & Blonder. That film may as well be called Hepatitis & Hepatitiser. Or at least it would if Denise Richards had hepatitis. Which, in the name of fair play, I hope she never does
Kippertron says
Obviously by ‘fair play’ I mean ‘the hope she’ll let me sleep with her one day’