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Paparazzi getting aggressive with Mishca

by Arieanna on November 6th, 2005

The paparazzi are getting aggressive with Mischa Barton. One who really got in her face about a year ago is now facing charges for doing the same to Reese Witherspoon:

HOLLYWOOD — Mischa Barton, the doe-eyed actress on “The O.C.,” stepped into the Lisa Kline boutique, leaving a pack of paparazzi outside on the sidewalk.

Employees dropped the store’s “paparazzi curtain,” a motorized black drape installed to shield celebrities from view. Undaunted, paparazzo Todd K. Wallace repeatedly barged into the store, over assistant manager Joanna Schroeder’s objections, according to an application for a restraining order she later filed.

Wallace, whom prosecutors in court records said has used a dozen aliases and who spent four years in prison for burglary and petty theft, yelled obscene threats at Schroeder.

When she finally got him to leave, Schroeder watched Wallace bang his truck into cars behind and in front of his parking spot, she said in an interview.

The incident was more than a year ago, but this month he was charged with battery and child endangerment for disrupting a summer outing to a Disney theme park by actress Reese Witherspoon (married to Delaware’s Ryan Phillippe) and her children.

Wallace, who was accused of striking one child with a camera and driving another to tears, denied the charges, saying he was the victim of an anti-paparazzi vendetta by what he called “Hollywood power brokers.”

Authorities and celebrities, however, say a new breed of photographer is injecting a heightened level of danger and aggression into the duel between celebrities and people who make a living off their photographs. One of the new paparazzi agencies is named for the Los Angeles street gang the owner belonged to as a teen; he said he trains other reformed gang members in the business. Other agencies use foreigners working on questionable visas. Photographers are hired less for their camera skills than their ability to navigate the rough-and-tumble of the celebrity chase, authorities say…

At up to $100,000 per photo in some cases, the desire to shoot no matter the cost is getting dangerous.

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