De Niro Caught Up In Alleged Pepper Spray Attack
By WENNMonday, March 29, 2010
ROBERT DE NIRO’s driver allegedly doused a paparazzo with pepper spray during an altercation at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Thursday (28Mar10)
The actor was not present when the driver turned on the videographer who had been following De Niro’s every move upon the star’s arrival at the airport.
According to the New York Post, the man and the paparazzo hurled verbal abuse at each other and their spat ended with the driver spraying the cameraman in the face.
The videographer claims the alleged act was unprovoked.
As authorities investigate the incident, De Niro’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, suggests the videographer is to blame.
He tells news show Entertainment Tonight, “Isn’t this the same photographer that had a problem with Woody Harrelson? If so, you do the math.”
Harrelson attacked a paparazzo at the same airport last year (09). He later released a statement claiming he thought the guy was “a zombie”.
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March 29, 2010: 4:06 pm
Most of the time incidents such as this are provoked. In order to get sprayed with pepper spray someone had to have been doing something to cause them to be srayed. He probably felt threatened, camera and video people can be relentless at times |
Tara