Point, Click, Punch: Julio "JC" Camera Takes Down Celebrity News Photographer
Amid concerns from her family about her recent behavior, Britney Spears wanted to move on and enjoy some time away... by, of course, taking the kids to Vegas.
The pop star, joined by her brother Bryan Spears, flew in a private plane to Sin City on Wednesday afternoon with kids Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 10 months.
It didn't take her long to make her presence felt. As a result, Britney Spears and her bodyguard might not be welcome at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel anymore.
Eyewitnesses tell Us Weekly that Spears' bodyguard, Julio Camera, a.k.a. JC, roughed up a photographer outside the Wynn spa after an altercation over the photographer's proximity to - and possible contact with - Sean Preston or Jayden James Federline.
A photographer who was shooting Spears at the resort claims that JC Camera shoved his partner in the chest - and accidentally hit Sean Preston in the process.
The photographer alleges that Britney Spears started yelling while JC Camera tackled his partner to the ground and began punching.
He claims that after Wynn security asked Britney Spears and all parties involved to leave, the Las Vegas police were called to take statements.
Las Vegas Police say JC Camera was issued a citation for misdemeanor battery. Meanwhile, Loretto says that Spears has filed an allegation of battery on behalf of Sean Preston Federline against photographer Kyle Henderson.
Britney Spears' battery allegation remains under investigation, with Las Vegas police issuing the following statement about the JC Camera incident:
"A second Incident Crime Report was also filed by Britney Spears on behalf of her minor child. In that report it was alleged that prior to the above incident a second photographer, identified as Kyle Henderson, battered both Julio Camera and Britney Spears' child, who was at that time being held by the security officer."
As of 5:30 p.m. Pacific time, the big sister of Jamie Lynn Spears had checked out of the Wynn hotel, although it is not certain that her departure was voluntary.
A Wynn spokesperson declined comment on the incident, and the hotel would only say in a statement that "the Wynn does not comment on guests of the hotel."
SIDE NOTE: Where the heck is Daimon Shippen? This guy is EVERYWHERE with her for two weeks and then falls off the face of the Earth? Where did JC Camera come from?
Britney might not be able to skip out on her problems altogether, though. A trip of this nature poses problems for any custody battle with her ex-husband K-Fed.
Under California law, neither parent is allowed to take a child out of state without written permission from the other, or by obtaining a court order.
According to a source close to Kevin Federline, Spears failed to notify her ex or his attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, that she was taking the children to Las Vegas.
We hear that the FedEx - by far the most sane of the two parents - has already filed a complaint. We will have more on this bizarre story as it develops.
November 2nd, 2008 1:58 AM
bodyguard, Julio Camera WORKING FOR MR LERRY FLYNT HOLLYWOOD -- With former Playboy philosopher Hugh Hefner having retired to be a bit player in a reality show about his girlfriends, Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt has become the de facto spokesman for politically progressive publishers of what still might be called "men's magazines."
As seen in "Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone," a documentary premiering Aug. 7 on the Independent Film Channel, he has a natural eloquence, oddly accentuated by his stroke-slowed speech. And having survived by three decades the assassination attempt that left him paralyzed, and having spent much of that time on the witness stand, in prison or on a soapbox in the service of his beloved First Amendment, Flynt has attained a gravitas that a casual flip through his publications would not necessarily suggest. Almost the first words we hear spoken here are, "On behalf of the ACLU and Harvard Law School, I am pleased to present Mr. Larry Flynt."
Even as he has been excoriated as a misogynist, racist and all-around bad egg, Flynt (who actually seems to be none of those things) has become a media figure of standing. His mainstream status is sealed by that of his interlocutors -- Larry King, Tavis Smiley, Ted Koppel all interview him here -- and by his audiences: We see him at an L.A. Times Festival of Booksevent, addressing a crowd I would not guess reflects the Hustler demographic.Although it was female genitalia that made Flynt's fortune, it is the magazine's low humor and personal attacks that just as often have landed its proprietor in the papers or in court. Flynt's greatest legal victory ended a suit by the Rev. Jerry Falwell over a parody advertisement that claimed the preacher had lost his virginity to his mother, in an outhouse. The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Hustler. That the joke might not have been funny was beside the point -- or maybe it was the point, since bad jokes are every bit as protected as good ones. (And Flynt and Falwell subsequently became friends.)
Directed by Joan Brooker-Marks, the film is sketchy as biography, focusing mostly on Flynt's career as free-speech crusader and political gadfly. (For the broader view, we'll have to wait for "American Masters: Larry Flynt" or "Ken Burns' Porn.") And while it provides archival clips of some of his nemeses, including Gloria Steinem and Charles Keating (an anti-porn crusader before his misadventures in the savings and loan business), it is a partisan celebration from first to last. Some of the objectors seem quaint now: "When you attack Santa Claus," says one 1970s prosecutor, referring to a Hustler cartoon, "that's attacking, through sex, everything decent in this country." But others beg to be given a little more time than they get.
"The Right to Be Left Alone" does make Flynt interesting, but it isn't as searching as it might be. The regressive thrust of the magazine's sexual content versus the progressive tone of its politics raises the unasked questions of just for whom Hustler is made and how Flynt sorts out the apparent contradictions. And Brooker-Marks sometimes gives her subject more help than he needs to state his case. But understatement has never been Flynt's modus operandi, either: This is a man who came to court diapered in an American flag, who threw an orange at a judge's head and who, when fined $10,000 a day for refusing to name a source, had it delivered in cash by "porn stars and hookers."
The war against pornography having been won -- by pornography -- Flynt, who sued the Department of Defense to allow reporters on the front line in Afghanistan and dug up dirt on Clinton-bashing Rep. Robert Livingston during the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal, now concerns himself with the fates of the nation and the media, which are for him the same thing. "The culture we live in today was born into a society where you could take your individual rights and civil liberties for granted," he says. "So they don't understand what the country would be like without the First Amendment." Had no one ever taken him to court, Flynt might not have thought about that much himself. But they did.
November 2nd, 2008 1:00 AM
bodyguard, Julio Camera, a.k.a. JC, WORKS FOR Larry Flynt has become the de facto spokesman for politically progressive publishers of what still might be called "men's magazines."