Angelina Jolie livid and afraid after paparazzi encounter in private home

Actress Angelina Jolie, 31, is scared and angry after a paparazzi encounter hit too close to home on Saturday evening. Angelina was in her rented home in Prague, giving her children a bath in preparation for bed when a paparazzo approached the home or used a long lens and took advantage of an open window shade to take photos. Angelina was understandably extremely upset. A security guard for the couple says,

She was livid. Angelina felt so sick and so violated, she was shouting and crying and shaking.

Source: US Weekly

Thanks to CBB reader Renee.

Comments

Josie on May 9th, 2007

i think its pretty sad that this is the length people are going to get a photo. I don’t condone violence but if i was her i would have went to jail cause i would have beat his butt. Taking pics of a parent bathing their kid is disgusting.

malaya on May 9th, 2007

if i was her i would have had to be restrained cause i would have been trying to beat his butt. Taking pics of a parent bathing their kid is disgusting.

DWS on May 9th, 2007

I would freak too if someone took pictures of such private times with her children. I truly feel for these celebrities and the paparazzi invasion, especially when their kids are involved. It’s very stalkerish and with all the weirdos out there you just never know. And from what I hear, alot of the paparazzi comes from questionable backgrounds too. And the celebs can’t retaliate against them b/c then the paps press charges. Hello, bake beans anyone?

Sarah on May 9th, 2007

how sad that they cant even enjoy such a great time together. Yes I like seeing photos of celebs and their kids, but I dont like seeing the invasive ones. If they dont want you to see it, then we should respect that. I dont see how you think pictures of parents bathing their kids is disgusting, I have several pix of me bathing my children and I think they are great pix!

Josie on May 9th, 2007

No sarah i meant the paps taking pics of that private moment is a disgusting act on there part not a parent themselves doing it. i feel that the intrusion was disgusting and it completely crossed the line. i guess i wasn’t clear in my post.

pink.lioness on May 9th, 2007

I think what Jodie meant was, taking pics of an unsuspecting parent bathing their children is disgusting (the behaviour of the paparazzo), not that the pics are disgusting.

I’d be upset too if that happened to me even as a non-celebrity ordinary person. Some things just go too far and this is definitely one of them!

popi on May 9th, 2007

OMG, some paps are real copycats…:/
I understand her reaction, perfectly normal!!Poor Angie and Brad, I hope they remain strong to face the fact they’re always insanely scrutinized.

Barker on May 9th, 2007

I am livid like all of you and I don’t mean to be harsh but we are all vistims of choices we make. For the last two years Angelina has courted the media like the late Princess Diana did while crying foul. She should never have sold pictures of her children to magazines. I know her argument was she was giving the money to charity and people would have gotten the picture any way but when you do that, people think your kids are for sale. This goes for other stars as well. Selling pictures of your child is the lowest form of child commercialisation. Iam angry with thses paps but they are also making money for their families and face it that is life and they will not change because Angelina cried. She sold pictures of her Mad and Brad, Her Brad, mad and zee, Namibia pictures, shiloh’s pics. So the paps want to cash in as well.

It is unfair to violet the privacy of those kids because they did not ask to be celebrities and may want a private life in future. We reap what we sow, fame is a double aged sword you have to realise it has an ugly side. She has chase fame in all her actions now this is what she gets. I am sorry that the children have to live thorugh this nightmare.

Sabina on May 9th, 2007

God, of all the people out there, you do NOT want to piss off Angelina Jolie! I don’t have kids but I can imagine my mother being furious if someone had done that when my sister and I were little, and she was a very placid person.

brass on May 9th, 2007

I would feel so violated, angry, scared, pissed off if someone invaded my home like that!! Paparazzi need to have rules!! It is insane, unacceptable and absolute BS for a celebrity, or anyone for that matter, to have to feel unsafe in their own home. Children also don’t need that fear of seeing some creepy face with a camera trying to get a picture of them. That paparazzo should be shot!! Josie, you and I would be sharing a jail cell!! That paparazzo would not be walking when I was done with him!

gabriella on May 9th, 2007

Barker I totally agree with your entire post.

Stephanie on May 9th, 2007

Selling photos of her children to try and take some of the control back didn’t make them celebrities. The fact that they’re her children do. Had there not been pictures released of them, the price would have gone higher, and we all know what people will do for money. Look at reality TV. How many people have done ridiculous things we could barely fathom doing in front of our family in front of millions of people all for money? Saying that you feel sorry for the children and that Angelina was inviting this kind of trouble is ridiculous. I feel sorry for the entire family. Having photographers take your picture at a red carpet and at public events is one thing, but it’s slowly progressed over the years to hunting them down on the streets and in cars, and now they’re climbing fences and through windows and using telescopic lenses. How far do they get to go with this? And I understand that being photographed is one of the prices of being a celebrity, but really, how is she “courting the media” by trying to live her life? I could understand if this was all a publicity stunt, but this woman is trying, as best her circumstances will allow, to have a family, and live her life in a good way. This latest incident is clearly a sign that papparazzi have gone to far in their quest for the perfect shot.

Quite frankly, if it were me that was being hunted down and photographed, I’d release so many pictures of myself that nobody would care anymore.

Melissa on May 9th, 2007

So Barker may I ask why do you visit celebrity baby blog? If you don’t agree with celebrities who either sell pictures of their children or even allow pictures of their children to be in magazines then why do you frequent a blog which consistenly profiles such pictures? Even looking at the pictures make you part of the problem and to say that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt or any other celebrity reaps what they sow when a stranger with a long lense takes pictures of inside a celebs home to get pictures of said celebs children is beyond ridiculous. It’s like blaming the rape victim because she wore a short skirt.

No one has the right to take pictures of your child in the bath without your consent. Period. End of story.

Devon on May 9th, 2007

If a celebrity is out on the street, red carpet or out and about then they are fair game. It is expected. If they don’t want to be photographed, then do not go outside. It is the price of the fame and fortune.

However, once a celebrity is in their own home, their privacy should be respected. I think it’s horrible that a photographer would be so intrusive and take photographs of Angelina and her children in their home. Especially when she is giving her children a bath. It’s really disgusting on the part of the photographer. At least have some decency and allow her and her children some sense of normality and a “normal” life.

eve on May 9th, 2007

My opinion is that anytime anyone is in public they are fair game for photos, but the privacy of one’s home should be sacrsanct, no matter if you’re a celebrity or not.

raqchel on May 9th, 2007

This is by far completely sick. The photographer who took those shots of her while she was bathing her kids should be beat down to a pulp with his own camera. Some where this idea of chasing celebs for a shot to put in tabs, and splash across the net has just gotten out of control, and this will continue to spiral unless someone pass some kind of laws to either have paps credentialed so when they commit an offense they can be severally punished.

Or someone sad to say is going to have to die for someone to wake up and realize a paparazzi taking a photo like that is not right.

Morals and judgement have been replaced by greed. And I do not think in Angelina’s case that not having her kids photographed for magazines would have stopped this. The thing is Angelina is the IT girl with the IT family. And not putting photos out there would just made it worse.

Laila on May 9th, 2007

Barker!

I am a bit confused by your post, are you suggesting that they brought this on themselves? I totally get why they would have their children photographed in a “controlled” environment to minimize the paparazzi frenzy but clearly that did not keep the hungry sharks away. Celebrity or not a mother should be able to bathe her children in the privacy of her own home in peace. Take pictures when their out but don’t violate someone’s personal space.

leni on May 9th, 2007

Um, this is from US Weekly, I don’t take anything they say as truth, as they have printed many lies about this family. If anything, they are exaggerating. I’m sure they weren’t happy about this incident but I doubt she is as lived and afraid as they are reporting. Filming in India was MUCH worse for them and afterwards they had nice things to say about their trip.

mott on May 9th, 2007

I don’t understand why this is not a crime. If a man stood outside my house and took pictures of me or my kids in the bedroom or bathroom through a window, wouldn’t that make him a peeper? Aren’t people prosecuted for this?
How sad that they cannot have a shade even slightly open in their house. They will have to live in darkness with every curtain drawn. Who needs sunlight?! Who needs a breeze?! Who needs fresh air?!

Grayson's Girl on May 9th, 2007

You know, I feel for them. They’re damned if they do damned if they don’t. If they hide the kids the paps are going to go into overdrive and probably endanger them trying to get a shot, they go about their everyday lives as if they aren’t there and STILL these paps take it there. I would think the fact that they allow their kids to be photographed pretty freely would grant them a reprieve from this nonsense. IA with the first poster, I would have caught a charge if someone went that far to take pics of my kids bathtime. Angelina thankfully is very strong and opinionated and Brad is the quiet storm, between the two of them they may just have met their match. It’s one thing when they’re walking around on public grounds, it’s another to try invade their personal space and time that way. Way too far!

LAILA on May 9th, 2007

I’m sorry but is this even true? I mean I can’t imagine that even the most rabid razzi would think that pictures of children in various forms of undress (since they were being bathed) no matter whose children they are, would have any value on the open market at all. I don’t think even the most base tabloid would touch those pictures. But on the off chance that it’s true then yes it’s despicable and awful.

cara on May 9th, 2007

as a photographer myself i am usually sympathetic (to a certain degree) with the paparazzi and understand their plight, taking pictures doesn’t pay well so you need the rarest shots to make enough money to get by. that’s why no one really cares about Denise Richards and her kids anymore, she floods the media, but Shiloh, Suri, these pictures are house-payments to the paparazzi.

It sounds a bit sick to break it down to that, but in all art it comes to a point where there is art and there is selling potential and you’ve got to compromise. that being said I see limited art value in paparazzi photos (perhaps a slight documentarian feel but honestly, a lot of its a blood-hunt anymore)

THAT BEING SAID, I think that private homes are private homes and the paparazzi have no right shooting through windows AT ANYTHING. Feeding the kids, watching tv…its off-limits, its their home and that should be respected. Certainly bathing children should be a respected and private event. While there are some people who would think it is beautiful and natural, there are other people who would take it to a perverse place and that is something NO child or parent should be subjected to regardless of celebrity status.

Its one thing if this was a staged photo-op but its not, I agree that this is an invasion of privacy. in my opinion, angelina has the right to petition for those pictures to be withheld if he got any, to me this would just be her protecting her children. i’d say the same if she were a celebrity or any other parent, that kind of exposure isn’t good for young children.

And as for Angie selling pictures of the kids, as I stated before there comes a time when those pictures would’ve been so highly sought after that the children may have become endangered by someone trying to take the $5 million shot. She waited for a while, then gave the money away and in selling the pictures she caused a de-valuation of the pictues thus reducing interest in her children.

In my opinion, if people are shooting through her bathroom windows, it might be time to flood the media again so they lose interest. The photographers are probably after Shiloh and Pax as we see significantly more of Maddox and Zahara, it might be time for another family photo-op so the other two children get exposure and thus less sought after.

That’s just the 2 cents of a photographer, didn’t intend to step on any toes just giving my opinion as someone behind the camera might see it. i hope it didnt come off as too cold, but the truth is those are valuable pictures. to protect the kids, Angie might have to sell more shots to the magazines soon.

millie on May 9th, 2007

I would be terribly upset if this happened to me. When they’re on the red carpet or even on a public street or in a park with their kids, it’s one thing. When someone is climbing trees (as it happened here) to get a photo INSIDE the home, they went too far.
I have a feeling that Barker and gabriella would be screaming bloody murder if the same thing happened to Jen Aniston or simply anyone OTHER than Angelina.
I don’t understand why the local police don’t set up a road block on the street and let only those who live there near the house.

sarah on May 9th, 2007

Yes Josie, I did misunderstand you, and yes I too think it is sick that the paps took pix of such a private moment. They should be held accountable for their actions, any other person would be considered a stalker or peeping tom!

emzi on May 9th, 2007

This is disgusting. Surely there’s some kind of law that would stop pictures of naked children being taken?
I would be furious if this happened to me. And it’s all well for the security guard to say ‘Angelina felt so sick and so violated, she was shouting and crying and shaking.’ but if he had been doing his job this wouldn’t have happened!

Ila on May 9th, 2007

They should take the kids out for a walk just like they did when they were in India last year… that might stop the media frenzy going on around them since they got to Prague.
Just my opinion anyway

sweetdiva on May 9th, 2007

That must have been such a terrifying realization for Angelina. Can you imagine having people spying on you and your child in your own home?
That’s really disgusting on the paps part. There are literally hundreds of opportunities to catch Angelina and Brad with the children. Wait 5 minutes and another legit photo op will appear.

Barker on May 9th, 2007

I am sorry if I stepped on any one’s toes but I categorically stated that I do not condone what the photographer did.

We do not live in a perfect world. I know many of you think that selling pictures gives you control of the situation and removes the danger of paps going to crazy lengths to get that picture but how come it hasn’t stopped them in this case? That is just a theory.

The circumstances of the meeting of both Brad and Angelina meant that they would draw a lot of attention. When they sold pictures of them and Mad in Africa and their perfect family spread, were they also trying to remove attention? Madonna could have made a lot of money from Banda’s pictures but did she sell them? Instead he distibuted a number of them to the press for free. He could have sold them and said the money was going to her Malawi charity. When there was a Suri frenzy, did Tom Cruise sell the pictures? He could have decided to sell them and give the money to the NY detox prog or Mentor LA.

I have a problem with selling pictures not putting them in a magazine. These are public figures with fans who enjoy seeing pictures of their families but you cannot make a habit of selling pictures and expect privacy. Selling your child’s pictures reduces the moral ground because these paps think that if she could do it for money, we too have a right, after all we made her famous.

Iam not an Aniston fan but even you Jolie-Pitt fans cannot be naive to think that after the way they have invited us into their personal lives and knowing the media attention on them they can expect anything else. I blame the paparazzi but the way Angelina conducted the whole Pax adoption and the way she fans the media frenzy around her makes me reserve my sympathy. Remember she has always loved attention with a vial around her neck and her bizarre sex stories and I believe she still enjoys all the attention given to her.

I deeply regret that the kids had to be subjected to that but in life we have to be careful and think of the people we love before seeking fame and glory. I strongly beleive that any one is capable of achieving a certain level of privacy if they wanted to. Remember when Tom and Katie were in our faces, who is climbing over their walls now that they have scaled back their PDAs? They realised that there is a high price to pay for being a public spectacle, no one likes helicopters hovering over your house and live in the fear of not knowing which pictures of you will be splashed all over the mags or internet.

I am sure the Jolie-Pitts can decide to lead a less high profile life, not release a statement for everything they plan to do. Selling pictures of their children meeting for the first time was in extreme bad taste. If they waited for a while and give a normal home photoshoot, then paps would show more respect for their privacy.

Illustration: What if the Spanish crown Prince married Paris Hilton, they adopt a kid with a camera crew following them and give birth in Angola all in the name of helping bring attention to the third world and then selling pictures of the baby to the highest bidder albeight to donate the proceeds to chairity, would they be people who do not want attention? Would they solely blame a pap who snuck into the ward to take the pictures of the newly born? Don’t get me wrong, this pap would be vile and would deserve imprisonment but the people in question are also to realise that every action has an equal but opposite reaction. And both Brad and Angelina should know this by now. May be they want to make the world a better place, may be they want to be more famous than Jesus, whatever they do, they should realise that the safety of their kids comes first.

say what on May 9th, 2007

Dear Lord! A stranger takes pictures of their children while they’re in a private home, in their bathtub and you dare blame Brad and Angelina for this? God only knows where these pictures are going to end up. You’ve got to be kidding me! I don’t care if Brad and Angie put pictures of their children on billboards it still doesn’t give someone the right to do this to them.

Barker the fact that you chose to bring up Angelina’s past to justify what that photographer did tells me that you don’t like her, plain and simple, and thus find it easy to blame her for the illegal intrusion of a photographer into the privacy of her home. Your thought process worries me more than anything Angelina has ever done in her past. This isn’t about selling pictures this is about your dislike for Angelina Jolie. If this had happened to Gwen Stefani, Julia Roberts, Madonna (yes Madonna sold pictures of Lourdes and Rocko), Tori Spelling, Mariska Hargitay, Britney Spears, Donald Trump and the umpteen other celebrities you’d be singing a different tune. There are celebrities I don’t like, some of them I just listed, but I would never blame them for this kind of intrusion. Unbelievable!

Justine on May 9th, 2007

BARKER you said it all, i agree with you. I have no respect for stars that sell pictures of their children. As children ,they have no say, so i see it as a form of exploitation. You are rich, give your own money to charity.

Kara on May 9th, 2007

Wow I’m not a fan and I can’t see how you can blame AJ for this. Some of you are digging deep. If this happened to me the man would be hurting for certain.

ang on May 9th, 2007

it’s a vicious cycle.pics of certain celebs doing certain things is worth money. paps want the money & will go to great lengths to take the pics, even breaking the law. there was most definitely a line here and this person crossed it.anyone watching tori & dean’s show would have seen dean chasing down paps off the b&b’s property after taking pics in a tree.when he caught up with them, he told them off GOOD and with good reason, they were trespassing & called the cops. i shudder to think of the show’s next season starting in august & having liam there. how a celeb handles the situation is just as important as it says a lot about them. violence is not gonna help either party.

Mrs. Treatment on May 9th, 2007

How horrible! I don’t know how these celebrities deal with the annoying paparazzi all the time.

HollyCate on May 9th, 2007

Snapping the photos when celeb families are out and about in public is one thing, (although I think I would get VERY tired of it.} But behind closed doors, peering in a window in a private home should be against the law if it isn’t already.

Lauren on May 9th, 2007

I agree with Kara. I have never hidden the fact that I can’t stand Angelina for numerous reasons, but this is ridiculous. I have no idea why people who behave this way aren’t arrested or charged with trespassing or some other crime. And the thought of photographing the children naked is just sick (not because naked children are gross, but because the paps were clearly trying to photograph them naked for personal profit and invade their privacy in doing so). I also agree with LAILA-any magazine, website, etc. would be a moron to publish these photos, as a lawsuit would inevitably follow as it should. However, noting the media nowadays they’ll propably do it anyway if it’s true. If it is, I have a feeling we’ll be hearing more about it.

Mira on May 9th, 2007

Wow, I can’t believe how freaking rude some people are being about this.

If they were to hide their kids and never show pictures, then people people would say that they would not be so hunted by paparazzies if they allowed some pictures to be taken.

And when they do allow pictures to be taken in an controlled environment, the paparazzi still does not back off and give them their space.

If they were to give the pictures of the kids to the magazines, the tabliods and the photographers would makes huge amounts of profit from their lives. Why allow anyone that kind of power?!!! I think it’s a great idea to make sure that all the money goes to kids living in unfortunate circumstances.

If they allowed the paparazzies and the magazines to freely publish pictures of their kids, then those same tabliods would be making a profit off of their lives.

How can anyone blame Brad and Angelina for having such a private moment violated like that by some random stranger? That’s sick. No matter what they do, it’s a lose lose situation for them. They try to be private and they get hunted down, and when they give pictures, they are called media whores.

The mind boggles at how completly rude and judgemental people can be.

Kat on May 9th, 2007

this is horrible… of course, it proves how hands on she is with her kids that she was giving the bath herself…

and thank goodness she is, because we can only imagine how terrified she must have been for her children and how afraid those angels must have been.

I hope that the film is destroyed, the photographer put in jail for harrassment or something (maybe child porn), and that Angie, Brad, and the kids can rest easier knowing that none of us support these acts and will not buy magazines or newspapers that print them.

neil on May 9th, 2007

Mickey should have done a repeat from when they were all in India and grabbed the pap by the neck with some accompanying choice words.
But then the media would have been outraged at Angelina and her bodyguard’s actions. The media would rather tolerate actions that one day will cross the line in some tragic way, then have their ‘right’ of intrusion challenged. Think how hostile much of the media has been to AJ this last year, because of her unwillingness to play by their rules.

Suzie's mom on May 9th, 2007

How do we know this guy isn’t a pervert? There’s just no way the tabloids would buy these pictures but they could end up in worse places. This is just wrong.

FC on May 10th, 2007

Is this guy a real photographer, or is he just some pervert? Those alleged photos would be a breeding ground for the pedophiles out there.

I don’t care if this is real or made up, the fact that someone would stoop to one of the classless, dirtiest levels and take photos of what would be a private moment shared with a mom and her children, and during bathtime of all times, it’s just sick and uncalled for. And it is damned if you do, damned if you don’t. They can’t win for nothing, especially when it comes to trying to control the amount of press/photogs that hound them.

But if this really happened, using some high-powered lens and taking photos of such a private moment as the kids during the bath, I would get a gun and hunt those mongrels down for that. Jail time wouldn’t mean a thing to me as long as my kids were kept away from that sort of sick-minded frenzy.

It’s almost like the Brangelina brood has a bounty on their heads as far as pictures go, and as far as how low, and far, some papz are willing to go to get the proverbial money shot. But this stunt is invasion of privacy to the nth degree. Can’t have a moment’s peace; can’t have any fresh air, and you seem to have to lock yourself up inside the house if you don’t want to be photographed.

Diana on May 10th, 2007

That is awful. Seriously the paparazzi have no shame. I really do not see how Angelina is at blame for this, whether she had sold the pictures or not they would still be trying to take pictures of the kids, In fact if they had hid them from the media I could see that they would have possibly being trying harder to get pictures this way.

Remember when nobody had seen Suri, some of the first pictures I recall seeing was a picture of Katie and the baby at the window.