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Malibu Calls On Ken Starr to Fight Paparazzi

Posted May 9, 08 9:25 AM CDT in Gossip 

(Newser) – Officials in Malibu are taking a new approach to taming paparazzi: enlisting the help of Kenneth Starr. The city’s mayor has asked the man who investigated Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case to bring together an anti-paparazzi think tank to draft laws seeking photographer-free “buffer zones” and perhaps a tax on pictures taken, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Malibu has become a hot spot for paparazzi since Britney Spears moved there two years ago. “They are like crows on a telegraph line, just rows and rows of them,” said one photo agency owner. An LA official proposed legislation against them this year, but the idea didn’t take hold. Still, as Malibu takes action, “maybe they will think twice before shoving a camera in your face,” says its mayor.

Source Los Angeles Times

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Britney Spears arrives at court for a child custody hearing in this Oct. 26, 2007, file photo taken in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
An unidentified man is detained by a Beverly Hills police officer for a traffic violation while following Britney Spears in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
Kenneth Starr, dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law, April 7, 2007, in Cambridge, Mass.   (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr gives his opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Nov. 19, 1998 file photo.   (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
Designer Marc Jacobs, right, kisses his companion as the paparazzi swarm them as they leave Ivy restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif. Tuesday, March 25, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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