Los Angeles - Britney Spears has settled a lawsuit with a photographer who claimed she drove over his foot in 2007, People reported Wednesday. The notice of settlement was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The terms of the agreement were not released. Photographer Ricardo Mendoza had originally sought more than 200,000 dollars in damages from the October 2007 incident, in which Spears allegedly ran over his foot as she was driving her white Mercedes out of a Beverly Hills parking garage. Earlier that day, a judge had temporarily suspended her rights to see her sons Preston, now 4, and Jayden, now...
- 10/21/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Britney Spears received a very expensive driving lesson on Monday. E! Online reports that the "Womanizer" singer has settled a lawsuit brought against her by paparazzo Ricardo Mendoza, who maintains that Brit-Brit ran over his foot with her car outside a Beverly Hills medical building in 2007. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed, but Mendoza had been asking for $230,000 in damages and medical expenses. In rebuttal papers filed in the case, Spears' attorney Benjamin C. Alvarez characterized Mendoza as a "self-serving, profit-hungry paparazzo" who "positioned and placed himself in the roadway in front of Ms. Spears' vehicle." Well, that's one way...
- 10/21/2009
- by Celebuzz
- Celebuzz.com
Hitting Britney Spears one more time paid off. The chart topper has settled a lawsuit brought against her by a paparazzo whose foot she ran over with her car outside a Beverly Hills medical building in 2007 (not to be confused with the feet she squished that year belonging to a sheriff's deputy and a different shutterbug), according to paperwork filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Ricardo Mendoza, who was pounding the pavement when the accident occurred, had been seeking nearly $230,000 in damages and medical expenses. Mendoza sued in May for an unspecified amount, then followed up with an amended complaint last month. Perhaps it was...
- 10/20/2009
- E! Online
A paparazzo has put a price on his foot -- $221,533.59, and he wants Britney Spears to foot the bill.Britney Spears ran over photog Ricardo Mendoza's foot while leaving a medical building in 2007. Mendoza, who worked as a photog for TMZ at the time, sued Britney but never specified how much he thought his foot was worth. But now he has.Mendoza claims he's suffered $195,000 in general damages, $16,533.59 in medical bills and $10,000 for any future foot problems.
- 9/24/2009
- TMZ
You'd think this guy's rollover minutes would have expired by now. Shutterbug Ricardo Mendoza, whose foot fell victim to the tire of Britney Spears' Mercedes in 2007, has updated his accusation against the rejuvenated pop princess. When he sued her for assault, battery and negligence in May, the damages were unspecified. But now, they're specified: Mendoza wants $195,000 in general damages, $16,533.59 for medical bills and $10,000 for any future foot problems. Mendoza, who was clicking away for TMZ at the time of the incident, let the website auction off the treaded-upon sock he was wearing two years ago, saying that would be that—but apparently it was not. P.S.: Someone...
- 9/24/2009
- E! Online
Britney Spears has been sued by a paparazzo who claims that she ran over his foot with her car, reports The AP. Former TMZ photographer Ricardo Mendoza has said that the singer negligently operated her vehicle and committed assault and battery when she allegedly crushed his foot in October 2007. In legal papers filed at La's Superior Court, he claims that her handlers should have known that she was "not in the mental, emotional and/or physical condition" to operate the car in a (more)...
- 6/1/2009
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
If nothing else, Britney Spears has never been accused of stepping on anybody's toes. A grieved paparazzo has sued the Circus star for rolling over his foot with her Mercedes convertible in 2007, a headline-grabber that was captured on video and was one of a trio of incidents in which a vehicle being driven by Spears left a tire tread on someone's tootsy, including one belonging to a sheriff's deputy. Shutterbug Ricardo Mendoza, who was employed by TMZ at the time, did not press charges; instead, he filed a lawsuit Friday claiming assault, battery and negligence. Spears "intentionally, deliberately, wantonly, maliciously and with a conscious disregard for the rights, health, and safety of...
- 5/29/2009
- E! Online
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