So, those pictures of handsomepants boxer Oscar De La Hoya dressed in drag? Fakes, sports fans!

A group of experts who studied the photos has deemed that they were Photoshopped, just like De La Hoya swore they were and just like nobody believed for a second. Whoopsies.

Who knew strippers, celebrity photo agency X17 and the New York Post could be so unreliable?

An ambitious young paparazzo was recently beaten "almost to death" by rival photographers who claimed he was encroaching on their turf. The victim, Alison Silva, alleges he was staking out Britney Spears' neighborhood when he was told, "You should not be here. Only X17 gets these shots." When he refused to leave, Silva says he was then hit and kicked by three men, one of whom wielded a metal pipe. Silva is now suing the notorious X17 photo agency, the employer of his assailants (and former plaintiffs in a suit against Jossip Initiatives), for, among other things, negligent training, supervision and retention of unfit employees.

Well-publicized was Britney Spears' brief affair with paparazzo-cum-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib that ended amid rumors the lensman was using her to provide exclusive images to his photo agency Finalpixxx. News today asserts that Spears now has a restraining order against Ghalib.

While both Spears and Ghalib seem emotionally vacuous when asked about their breakup, shifty photo agency X17 must be elated. The dissolution of the relationship means that they can go back to paying Spears hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for sole access to information concerning her whereabouts (read: opportunities to take her picture).

Sister blog Jossip has all the shady details here.

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