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* The rare paparazzi hero: Leon Bernstein (played by [[Joe Pesci]]) in ''[[The Public Eye]]''. Based on the real life photog Weegee.
* In ''[[That Old Feeling]]'', [[Bette Midler]] plays a movie star who is frequently chased by a certain paparazzo.
* The film ''[[Paparazzi (film)|Paparazzi]]'' is about an actor whose life is almost destroyed by evil paps who cause a car accident that land the actor's 9
* ''[[And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird]]'': After reporter Alice hears about Josh and Max's secret robot, she pursues the story to the point of breaking and entering and airing footage obtained from shooting through house windows.
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* Rita Skeeter from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. Though technically she's not a photographer herself, the rest of her characterization fits and she generally strings one (named "Bozo") along with her.
* ''Paparazzi'', obviously.
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* James Herbert's novel ''Creed'' is about a paparazzo stumbling upon a satanic cult.
* Nearly all the media in ''[[Rewind (Terry England novel)|Rewind]]'' is portrayed like this, as they obsess over the seventeen Rewound children to the point of being [[Strawman Political|Strawmen news crews]]. Starts with ABC and NBC reporters [[Cluster F-Bomb|cussing each other out]] while fighting for a good position to film from, and just [[It Got Worse|goes downhill from there]].
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* Fili Houtemann got two of these to [[Honey Trap|photograph her cavorting naked]] with Daniel Ducruet, the then-husband of Stephanie Casiraghi.
* A paparazzi once decided it would be a brilliant idea to sneak into [[Bruce Lee]]'s backyard to try and get shots of him.[[Too Dumb to Live|Unfortunately, his kids were in the yard at the time, and he terrified them]], a ''very'' angry Lee [[Papa Wolf|kicked the man with such force, it knocked him out instantly and may have killed him if Lee's foot was a bit more to the side.]]
* [[Emma Watson]] said in an interview that she encountered paparazzi lying on the ground to take pictures up her skirt on her eighteenth birthday. Apparently it was legal to do that to an adult but not a minor in 2008.<ref>A UK law has since been introduced to ban "upskirt" pictures at any age.</ref>
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