Brangelina security allegedly roughs up photographer in India
10.09.2006, 09:50
A bodyguard for Hollywood couple
Angelina Jolie and
Brad Pitt allegedly assaulted a British photographer outside their luxury hotel in the western Indian city of Pune, media reports said.
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Indian television channel Headlines Today broadcast footage of a man it identified as a security employee of the couple grabbing the photographer by the neck.
"I am totally shaken by the treatment I got from the private security official," photographer Sam Relph was quoted by the Press Trust of India (PTI) as saying pm Simdau.
Relph had been trying to take pictures of the couple's two bodyguards when the alleged incident took place, PTI said.
It said the bodyguard in question had ordered Relph to stop following the couple. PTI did not name Relph's employer.
Jolie and Pitt arrived in India on Thursday to shoot a movie based on the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
Aarti Surendranath, who is making arrangements for the movie shoot, had no comment on the alleged incident.
The news reports quoted Relph as saying he was considering filing a police complaint.
"I have not yet filed any case. But I am considering (it)," PTI quoted him as saying.
The couple are expected to spend a month in India filming "A Mighty Heart," based on the book of the same name by Pearl's widow Mariane about her husband's abduction and murder by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002.