8:58 pm - 04/19/2012
– Michelle Ruiz
@michelleruiz
MOST WANTED
$2 million — Brangelina wedding
Heads are already exploding at the notion of Brangelina as bride and groom, flanked by six little ringbearers and flower girls. “That’s going to be the wedding of the century,” Gary Morgan, CEO of Splash photo agency, told Flash of the nuptials, which reportedly will be at the couple’s sprawling Chateau Miraval in the south of France. He bets the shots will be closely guarded and sold to the highest bidders in the U.S. and abroad. “They’ll revive the industry — for that week, anyway.”
$500,000 — Blue Ivy Carter
Beyoncé and Jay-Z attempted to diffuse the paparazzi crush by releasing personal pictures of their daughter via Tumblr, but a photo of the hip-hop princess with her über-famous parents remains among the most-wanted shots in the game. Recent images of Blue’s Marc Jacobs baby-slippered feet dangling from Mom’s Baby Bjorn don’t count. “It has to be her face, and it has to be cute,” X17 paparazzi agency president Frank Navarre told Flash.
$500,000 — Jessica Simpson’s daughter
After what seems like Simpson’s 17-month gestational period, the paparazzi are gearing up for the first shots of her mini-mogul, due next month. “She’s been so big for so long — literally and figuratively,” an agency head said of Simpson. For now, paps play a waiting game. “She keeps having decoys coming out of her house,” Morgan lamented to Flash.
$400,000 — Jennifer Lawrence and beau Nicholas Hoult
The on-the-rise “Hunger Games” heroine is “the sleeper” among paparazzi targets, according to an agency insider. “We get demands in real time from websites around the world, asking: ‘What have you got? Where’s the boyfriend?’ ” The ideal photo set, an agency staffer said, would be of Lawrence in a “bikini, set on an exotic beach, entangled with this guy. We could sell that in every major market in the world.”
$250,000 — The Duchess of Cambridge
Lithe Catherine is a royally hot commodity — especially if she were to doff her fascinator and L.K. Bennett heels in favor of a teeny bikini. “Kate Middleton looking fit in Mustique or the Caribbean or Spain … that’s gonna sell worldwide,” Navarre dished. The future duchess’ 2006 white-hot bikini shots remain a gold standard, but chances of a sequel seem slim. These days, the royals are “very organized” with their photo ops, Navarre sighed.
$200,000 — Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
“It’s really the wedding of the summer,” Navarre said of the on-again couple’s fast-approaching nuptials, which will attract rabid interest from celebrity weeklies. Weddings like that of reality starKristin Cavallari and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will fetch less. “They’ll whore everything out to the highest bidder, but the magazines can get them relatively cheap — $100,000,” said paparazzo Steve Sands.
$110,000 — Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux
The biggest scoop for a celeb shutterbug is a snapshot confirming a new couple — like perennial pap bait Aniston and new beau Theroux. “We broke that story, and it was a very good one. Everybody denied it and we were right,” Navarre boasted of the couple’s debut shots, which raked in $110,000. Now paps want to see them frolicking in Mexico. “She hasn’t been to Cabo with this guy, but she’s been to Cabo with everyone but me and you,” an insider griped.
$100,000 — Demi Moore
It might make your skin crawl, but personal turmoil is the bread and butter of the pap army. That means there’s a six-figure bounty on the first solid post-rehab shot of Moore, who was last seen looking scarily skinny before being hospitalized in January. “She hasn’t been seen for ages,” Morgan said. “Whether she comes out looking really ropy or really glam and bounces back with a guy, that’s what everyone wants to see.”
$60,000 — Charlize Theron’s son
The Oscar-winning mom is attempting to keep her adopted son Jackson under wraps, but she might be fighting a losing battle. “The hottest thing is pregnancy, and then babies,” paparazzo Vladimir “Dutch” Labissiere told Flash. Charlize is “not as big as Beyoncé,” Navarre said. “But the baby picture is still something.”
THE GIMMES
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Their relationship stunt won’t make the big bucks because Kardashian saturates the market. “She’s tipping off photographers behind her own boyfriend’s back,” Sands slammed. “She called in a few paparazzi just to shoot her honeymoon.” Still, recent pics of Kardashian’s bodacious bikini bod in the Dominican Republic grabbed a cool $100,000.
Brangelina’s brood
Newborn Shiloh’s People cover earned a staggering $6 million, but that was before the beautiful brood became tabloid staples. “Maybe $2,000 — that’s nothing,” Navarre said. “We get them all the time.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
Another day, another shot of the “Sex and the City” star walking her kids to school in New York’s West Village. “You can get those every single day practically for free,” one photo editor blabbed.
Lindsay Lohan
After a flood of court appearances, “she’s just gone in the toilet,” a photo agency insider said. “You practically can’t give her away.” Mugshots, after all, are free.
PAPARAZZI HALL OF FAME
Britney Spears
The shocking 2007 shots of a bald, ballistic Britney bashing a pap’s car window with an umbrella were among the priciest prizes in recent memory, earning “in the millions” worldwide, a magazine editor estimated.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Africa
Pap images of Brangelina on the beach in Kenya with their son Maddox confirmed the superstar couple were indeed a couple — and earned an estimated $1 million payday.
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed
The star-crossed lovers were snapped kissing and lolling on a yacht on the Italian Riviera six days before their deaths in August 1997, fetching a reported $2 million from London’s Sunday Mirror alone, and millions more worldwide.
Note: The figures above reflect estimated total agency sales across media outlets and platforms in the U.S. and abroad.
Source
Celebs That Reward/Rewarded The Paparazzi With The Biggest Paydays
Stars: They’re really not like us at all. Behind every outing of newly engaged super-couple Brad Pittand Angelina Jolie are paparazzi on the hunt for the hottest shot — and the biggest payday — in Hollywood. The perfect picture of a seldom-seen A-list couple — or better yet, their new baby — can shoot past the $1 million mark, as agencies charge steep licensing fees for magazines, websites, TV shows and international outlets. What precious photos are the paparazzi hunting at this very moment? We canvassed the paps and industry insiders to compile a master hit list.
– Michelle Ruiz
@michelleruiz
MOST WANTED
$2 million — Brangelina wedding
Heads are already exploding at the notion of Brangelina as bride and groom, flanked by six little ringbearers and flower girls. “That’s going to be the wedding of the century,” Gary Morgan, CEO of Splash photo agency, told Flash of the nuptials, which reportedly will be at the couple’s sprawling Chateau Miraval in the south of France. He bets the shots will be closely guarded and sold to the highest bidders in the U.S. and abroad. “They’ll revive the industry — for that week, anyway.”
$500,000 — Blue Ivy Carter
Beyoncé and Jay-Z attempted to diffuse the paparazzi crush by releasing personal pictures of their daughter via Tumblr, but a photo of the hip-hop princess with her über-famous parents remains among the most-wanted shots in the game. Recent images of Blue’s Marc Jacobs baby-slippered feet dangling from Mom’s Baby Bjorn don’t count. “It has to be her face, and it has to be cute,” X17 paparazzi agency president Frank Navarre told Flash.
$500,000 — Jessica Simpson’s daughter
After what seems like Simpson’s 17-month gestational period, the paparazzi are gearing up for the first shots of her mini-mogul, due next month. “She’s been so big for so long — literally and figuratively,” an agency head said of Simpson. For now, paps play a waiting game. “She keeps having decoys coming out of her house,” Morgan lamented to Flash.
$400,000 — Jennifer Lawrence and beau Nicholas Hoult
The on-the-rise “Hunger Games” heroine is “the sleeper” among paparazzi targets, according to an agency insider. “We get demands in real time from websites around the world, asking: ‘What have you got? Where’s the boyfriend?’ ” The ideal photo set, an agency staffer said, would be of Lawrence in a “bikini, set on an exotic beach, entangled with this guy. We could sell that in every major market in the world.”
$250,000 — The Duchess of Cambridge
Lithe Catherine is a royally hot commodity — especially if she were to doff her fascinator and L.K. Bennett heels in favor of a teeny bikini. “Kate Middleton looking fit in Mustique or the Caribbean or Spain … that’s gonna sell worldwide,” Navarre dished. The future duchess’ 2006 white-hot bikini shots remain a gold standard, but chances of a sequel seem slim. These days, the royals are “very organized” with their photo ops, Navarre sighed.
$200,000 — Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
“It’s really the wedding of the summer,” Navarre said of the on-again couple’s fast-approaching nuptials, which will attract rabid interest from celebrity weeklies. Weddings like that of reality starKristin Cavallari and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will fetch less. “They’ll whore everything out to the highest bidder, but the magazines can get them relatively cheap — $100,000,” said paparazzo Steve Sands.
$110,000 — Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux
The biggest scoop for a celeb shutterbug is a snapshot confirming a new couple — like perennial pap bait Aniston and new beau Theroux. “We broke that story, and it was a very good one. Everybody denied it and we were right,” Navarre boasted of the couple’s debut shots, which raked in $110,000. Now paps want to see them frolicking in Mexico. “She hasn’t been to Cabo with this guy, but she’s been to Cabo with everyone but me and you,” an insider griped.
$100,000 — Demi Moore
It might make your skin crawl, but personal turmoil is the bread and butter of the pap army. That means there’s a six-figure bounty on the first solid post-rehab shot of Moore, who was last seen looking scarily skinny before being hospitalized in January. “She hasn’t been seen for ages,” Morgan said. “Whether she comes out looking really ropy or really glam and bounces back with a guy, that’s what everyone wants to see.”
$60,000 — Charlize Theron’s son
The Oscar-winning mom is attempting to keep her adopted son Jackson under wraps, but she might be fighting a losing battle. “The hottest thing is pregnancy, and then babies,” paparazzo Vladimir “Dutch” Labissiere told Flash. Charlize is “not as big as Beyoncé,” Navarre said. “But the baby picture is still something.”
THE GIMMES
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Their relationship stunt won’t make the big bucks because Kardashian saturates the market. “She’s tipping off photographers behind her own boyfriend’s back,” Sands slammed. “She called in a few paparazzi just to shoot her honeymoon.” Still, recent pics of Kardashian’s bodacious bikini bod in the Dominican Republic grabbed a cool $100,000.
Brangelina’s brood
Newborn Shiloh’s People cover earned a staggering $6 million, but that was before the beautiful brood became tabloid staples. “Maybe $2,000 — that’s nothing,” Navarre said. “We get them all the time.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
Another day, another shot of the “Sex and the City” star walking her kids to school in New York’s West Village. “You can get those every single day practically for free,” one photo editor blabbed.
Lindsay Lohan
After a flood of court appearances, “she’s just gone in the toilet,” a photo agency insider said. “You practically can’t give her away.” Mugshots, after all, are free.
PAPARAZZI HALL OF FAME
Britney Spears
The shocking 2007 shots of a bald, ballistic Britney bashing a pap’s car window with an umbrella were among the priciest prizes in recent memory, earning “in the millions” worldwide, a magazine editor estimated.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Africa
Pap images of Brangelina on the beach in Kenya with their son Maddox confirmed the superstar couple were indeed a couple — and earned an estimated $1 million payday.
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed
The star-crossed lovers were snapped kissing and lolling on a yacht on the Italian Riviera six days before their deaths in August 1997, fetching a reported $2 million from London’s Sunday Mirror alone, and millions more worldwide.
Note: The figures above reflect estimated total agency sales across media outlets and platforms in the U.S. and abroad.
Source
i would be tbh only because i have bills to pay and i'm pretty dumb/untalented
I would like to be one. At this point, any person with a good camera can be a paparazzo. You just need to have good stalker skills or be lucky enough to be where the celebrity is at the moment.
Edited at 2012-04-20 01:24 am (UTC)
I ALMOST applied to do it but i decided i had more dignity.
any other photos i've taken i've kept to myself. they sit nicely on my harddrive LOL.
One time, a few years ago, Paris Hilton unexpectedly showed up at an event where I was invited press, and suddenly, over a hundred paparazzi swarmed the quiet street. I got assaulted by a paparazzo and almost had my camera bag stolen in the two minutes she was on the red carpet.
Paparazzi are thugs.
Edited at 2012-04-20 03:06 am (UTC)
OT: But am I crazy for payin $100 for Lollapalooza for one day just because I want to see the beautiful person in my icon and like 3 other artists. But I can't wait!!!
YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA.
Edited at 2012-04-20 02:19 am (UTC)
and $100 is pretty cheap for a concert, even more so for a festical /south america resident.
lmao, I love how honest paps are.
Edited at 2012-04-20 01:22 am (UTC)
but then again who am i to say, i am on ONTD. what is my life.
THE HELL? Jessica is basically a NOBODY at this point!
Edited at 2012-04-20 01:22 am (UTC)
I'm a bad person.