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Justin Bieber Paparazzo Killed Trying to Snap Singer’s Ferrari

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A paparazzo was fatally struck by a car in Los Angeles on New Year’s Day while attempting to take pictures of a Ferrari belonging to Justin Bieber.

The singer’s vehicle had been reportedly stopped by police on Tuesday evening, and the unidentified photographer stepped out of his own car to take pictures of the situation.

He was later struck by a passing vehicle and died, according to reports.

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Bieber was NOT in the Ferrari at the time of the accident, having loaned the car to two friends, says TMZ.

The photographer was said to have been trailing the Ferrari prior to the traffic stop.

Bieber has been recklessly chased by photographers on several occasions, sparking an attempted anti-paparazzi law.

Gossip Cop has reached out to a rep for the performer for more information on Tuesday’s incident.

We’ll have updates.

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  • Guest

    The photographer died being a DUMBASS

  • Woof

    Bummer…and he wasn’t even there

  • TK24

    KARMA! KARMA!! KARMA!!!

  • Drew Dawg

    this is a slightly better world

  • Chloe

    GC Why are you reaching out to Justin’s team? You should be questioning whoever employed the dumdass Paz? I know they are freelance so reach out to all the buyers and ask hem when will this stop…how many more lives have to be lost or destroyed? This isn’t Justin’s fault why should they have a comment?

  • Holly

    I see comments like “It’s a better world” and “Karma”…and you guys are forgetting that a person died. He was just doing his job. Sure, the picture clearly wasn’t worth it, but it doesn’t matter anymore. You most likely didn’t know him. Stop the rude comments.

    And don’t forget, without guys like him, we would never get our celebrity gossip fixes. May he rest in peace.

  • DontNeedAUsername

    The police officer told him to vacate the area because it was dangerous so no he was being dumb

  • DontNeedAUsername

    Sorry but if anyone blames this on Bieber they’re stupid. This was bound to happen. I’ve seen countless videos of paps causing after Bieber speeding pass people putting OTHER people’s lives in danger. So clearly it was going to happen to one of them. You learn as a CHILD to get out of the street so it’s his fault if he choose to be stupid thinking he’s superman or some shit and won’t get hit. A picture of Justin’s car and his getting stopped by cops when it wasn’t even him in it should show paps to go find something else to occupy so much of their time doing. They’re not just endangering themselves, they’re endangering the celebs AND other people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniela.danvers Daniela Danvers

    He was just trying to do his job. After all, probably he was working to take care of his famly. He didn’t deserve to die like that. Rest . in . Peace .. Just hope his family does good through the hole process..

  • Guest

    Karma. The truth is if he wasn’t hunting the kid he wouldn’t be dead. If they hadn’t been hunting Princess Diana she would still be here with her boys. I have no sympathy for people who do this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniela.danvers Daniela Danvers

    What you want us to do that so you can get money? I know wvwrything about that

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniela.danvers Daniela Danvers

    Agreed

  • Mario is a Putz

    “”He was just trying to do his job. After all, probably he was working to take care of his famly.”"

    You could say the same thing about most mobsters

  • Guest

    Not everyone reads or needs gossip. I don’t have sympathy for people who do this. If people didn’t buy that crap people wouldn’t be hunted out of their minds by people like this. The ‘stars’ they hunt are human and just as boring as the rest of us. Who cares where they go on their sat nights? If you need to know just read it on their twitter feed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniela.danvers Daniela Danvers

    People like you make it worse.. Why would you even say that when you didn’t know him, Yeah i understand he was a paparazzi, but that’s no way to talk about a dead person, who you didn’t even know or knew why, he was doing the job in the first place, he could’ve been doind it to support his family..

  • DontNeedAUsername

    Agreed

  • DontNeedAUsername

    “Our gossip fixes” no more like just yours.

  • tami

    and u know what’s funny? these same ppl were the ones commented “oh rip sandy hook victims” just a few weeks ago. i’ve learned after living on this earth that when it comes to humans, everything bad that happens is acceptable when it comes to CERTAIN ppl, anyone who you don’t like deserves bad stuff and ppl who you do like deserve everything great >:( glad i was raised right!!!

  • Guest

    And you don’t know that person either

  • Lindsey

    You’re on a celebrity gossip site as well…

  • Anjali

    Dangerous job being a pap then? Usually it’s the celebrity being hounded, & the innocent road users in the vicinity that are put at risk, when that celebrity is trying to escape the intrusion. Better the pap than those people. However, it’s still a tragedy for this persons family

  • thecat61

    Again Justin’s name linked to the police.

  • http://twitter.com/1darkeclipse darkeclipse

    Do his job? i don;t think people will buy this crap. PAPARAZZIS ARE AGGRESSIVE IF THEY see jb and selena together = they will do anything to get photos of them $$$$

  • deeeeep

    Good news.

  • DontNeedAUsername

    Correction. I’m on here for the title of the article. Nice try

  • Kaitlyn Cocuzzo

    While its inappropriate to be happy anyone died or call someone’s death “karma” I find the Sandy Hook comparison insulting. This guy was doing sometimes immoral a stupid against the suggestion of a police officer and met a predictable but tragic end. The wre innocent first graders sitting in an Elementary School a week before Chrismas doing nothing wrong. No comparision

  • Kaitlyn Cocuzzo

    Yeah he shouldn’t have been doing that, but a person still died. You do have a point though that they shouldn’t keep chashing people even after killing a car full of people and act surprised when more tragedy comes.

  • Kaitlyn Cocuzzo

    Well stated! Tragic someone died but at least for once it wasn’t the innocent dies and the guilty walk as it all too often is.

  • http://twitter.com/sassysexykitty Kitty

    Sorry,but that guy got himself killed and i have no sympothy for him.

  • 3.14159

    The Bieb’s set him up as a warning to the rest of them … That’s the way they roll in Canada.

  • anon123

    And you just woke up with your browser opened exactly on this page?

  • Right

    May his victims, the ones he and his fellow hyenas chased on a daily basis, may those victims rest in peace.

  • Regina1180

    I’ve seen the paps in action, they tend to act as if they’re invincible. Up until this point, they basically have been. This isn’t the first photographer to put themselves in danger for a stupid picture, and this won’t be the last.

    I give it 2 weeks until his employer or family sues either Beiber or the city.

  • DontNeedAUsername

    Correction. It was on my twitter feed and I sure ad hell don’t have answer to you about what I do. So you can feel free to hush. This is a free country get over it.

  • Guest

    This isn’t about Selena

  • jackalexandria

    why does a child own a ferrari?

  • Logan

    So?

  • JMHO4

    Maybe now they will enforce the anti-paparazzo laws. This is a tragic death, however, some of these people act like animals when their subject matter is deemed “important”. It was bound to happen sooner or later….

  • D. Martin

    I understand your point of view — I do. A person died and no matter what they did for a living someone is missing them. My condolences to his family. But consider…what if it had been Bieber who had been struck by the car? Would your sentiments still be, “He was just doing his job?” There are hired photographers and there are paps — the same paps who “were just doing their job” when they caused the crash that killed Princess Diana.

  • D. Martin

    I agree with you here.

  • D. Martin

    I agree. But I figured it would happen to another celeb — not the papz themselves. The papz are getting more and more agressive in their attempts to get the “money shot”, even going to great lengths as to “stage” an accident to get the photos.

  • Point?

    Wicket and mean things you do or say don’t suddenly wash away because you stopped breathing. A prostitute and a hire killer, they too have to feed their their families. What is your point? There are two kinds of departure here on eath. 1) so sorry to hear that 2) good riddens.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yu-Lee/100001682217535 Yu Lee

    Both Alfredo and Justin himself are constantly taking his own photo and posting them on twitter, facebook, instagram! So the PAPs are dedundant relicks of a bygone era!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yu-Lee/100001682217535 Yu Lee

    Did anyone snap the Pap getting splattered? Now that’s a picture I’d pay to see!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yu-Lee/100001682217535 Yu Lee

    How sad = the Pap died but HEY his photo survived = Hurray !!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yu-Lee/100001682217535 Yu Lee

    Tonight we can sleep happily cuz not only there’s “One Less Lonely Girl” but also “One Less Pap Chasing Justin” !!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Yu-Lee/100001682217535 Yu Lee

    ..BREAKING NEWS … police reveal name of driver who run over and killed PAPARAZZI who chased Justin’s car = CHUCK NORRIS …………….LOL

  • KStew Krew

    Holly…Yes a real person did die, that’s a fact and a sad fact too. Too bad he died so we “coould get our celebrity fix” as you put it. That is a shame all in itself…aweful. If these rag sites and rag mags would leave these real people (celebrities) alone then we wouldn’t have meaningless deaths like this man’s or deaths like Princess Diana (remember her?). Is it worth it? Quite simply…NO.

  • http://www.facebook.com/courtney.puzzo.7 Courtney Puzzo

    this bratty little kid chose to be in the entertainment business so being chased by the paparrazzi is part of that get used to it or find another profession. as for the photog being killed chasing after the car when Biebes wasn’t even in it that’s a shame but it’s payback for making his life a living hell. it’s simillar to the National Enquirer sending photogs to hound a grieving Joanne Woodward on election day 2008 bearly 6 weeks after her beloved husband of nearly 51 years passed away. you could see her eyes were swollen from crying and she didn’t care but would’ve preffered not to have her picture taken while doing personal business as a lifelong fan of both I felt so bad for her having her privacy invaded so soon after her beloved husband passed away

  • Tony

    I guess that’s why you’re on gossipcop… cuz you don’t care!

  • Tony

    How exactly is it immoral?

  • Tony

    And you still clicked on the link that had the name Justin Beiber. You like it, admit it!

  • Guest

    Bratty? You don’t even know him. So save yourself the waste of air and just hush with the negativity.

  • DontNeedAUsername

    Correction. Dumbass. I clicked on it Because I already knew about the subject from Miley Cyrus tweeting about it the tmz and this link came up and I read both. So you can shut the hell up and realize you don’t rule people and go about your business.

  • Kaitlyn Cocuzzo

    He was stalking someone!

  • Chloe

    Get a new job….get a real job stop being a professional stalker….I have empathy for the life that was lost and the family that will miss him/her. But, if Justin or any other celebrity had be killed because of his reckless actions what tune would you be singing? How many lives has he killed or destroyed? There needs to be limits to these pictures the Paz have free press on the personal lives of others. If these pictures were not around guess what?? Our lives would go on and the celebrities would be able to live their lives in peace. No were in the SAG by-laws does it say sell your life to the Paz when you become famous, you have to submit every second of your life to the Paz at every breathing moment. Celebrities have down time like everyone else.

  • Chloe

    AMEN my friend…AMEN…

  • Chloe

    Agreed!

  • znkdcjsvn

    You are annoying as fuck! Quit being a condescending cocksucker and writing “Correction.” like you’re hot shit. You are on a gossip site, obviously, because you keep coming back to read responses to your fucking comments!

  • DontNeedAUsername

    Correction! #1 the only annoying one is your irrelevant ass on here messaging me in what I’m doing that doesn’t involve you. If you are annoyed your ass is still reading it. So don’t you look dumb? So no. The only annoying as “fuck” one is you. Congrats. #2. I’m grown. You don’t know me rule me or control me therefore you don’t tell me what to stop doing. The only condescending cocksucker here is you and that’s obvious. Saying correction has nothing to do with that analogy. So please go take a English class and learn how to properly address people so you won’t sound so childish. 3. I’m fully aware of what this site is IDIOT and I’ve made that abundantly CLEAR. I come back because BITCH this damn site sends you emails and a link when people respond. I can comeback as do and say whatever the hell I want. I don’t have read shit. They’re responses dumbass. Hence they are RESPONCES TO WHAT I SAID. Meaning I get the notification. So thanks for showing your true ignorance. Whatever I do isn’t your concern so get a life and go troll someone else that cares about your whining.

  • DontNeedAUsername

    I never said it was just him. I meant overall

  • cora

    Invading the privacy of others, putting himself, the celebrity and other motorists in danger, harassment…

  • http://twitter.com/1darkeclipse darkeclipse

    Chill out man.

  • http://twitter.com/1darkeclipse darkeclipse

    If this keeps up another pap or celeb would be dead

  • plouc

    Unfortunatly I have no pity for those guys. It’s actually a relief to know that there is one less. Even if it’s a human being, they know that by doing this job they will be hated, even dead.

  • darwin

    Let’s see: (1) Crossed busy roadway (2) Told multiple times by cops he was in a dangerous position (3) Re-crossed busy roadway without looking and killed by SUV.

    Whatever you think about the paparazzi, I think we can all agree this is a definite darwin award candidate.

  • Vivian

    I love Justin Bieber<3

  • Selena

    I like this page:)

  • Offical Selena Gomez

    I love my fans.Thank you very much!

  • Pap Hater

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA One less moronic wanker camera carrying paparazzi in the world. That just has to be a GOOD thing. Bring on the next one that dies. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

  • Pap Hater

    Rest in peace…not likely…MAY HE ROT IN HELL.

  • Pap Hater

    I’m on here because I saw a link to a story saying “Paparazzi killed trying to photograph Bieber’s Ferrari” I don’t do gossip…I am not interested in Bieber or gossip…bit I am extremely happy that a paparazzi was killed. Sorry for his family, but very happy the world has one less stalking moronic wanker in it now. ha ha ha ha ha a ha

  • Pap Hater

    OOPS, this was meant for Lindsey, not the poster above him/her. Sorry.

    I’m on here because I saw a link to a story saying “Paparazzi killed
    trying to photograph Bieber’s Ferrari” I don’t do gossip…I am not
    interested in Bieber or gossip…bit I am extremely happy that a
    paparazzi was killed. Sorry for his family, but very happy the world
    has one less stalking moronic wanker in it now. ha ha ha ha ha a ha

  • DontNeedAUsername

    IDGAF tbh so idk what u write me for lol

  • Pap Hater

    Kaitlyn…I have yet to read anybody with sympathy for the lady whose car struck this stalking moron. I say good riddance to him…the world is a better place without him.

  • Kaitlyn Cocuzzo

    I feel for the women who has to live with that bit I feel she has to know it wasn’t at all her fault.
    Regardless of the stupidity of his actions to say the world is better off without someone is just sick and unneeded

  • Cynthia

    Jajajajajajajaja…. Love it

  • sirod

    is this true?

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