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Paparazzi Firm Target of FBI Search

Richard Winton and Chris Lee write in The Los Angeles Times:

The FBI's investigation into a Hollywood paparazzi agency is focusing on whether the firm's co-owner tapped into Us Weekly's e-mail system to steal scoops about such stars as Nick Lachey, Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, sources familiar with the case said.

Us Weekly staff told the FBI they began getting suspicious a few months ago when they noticed several of their celebrity gossip items, which they thought the magazine had exclusively, started showing up in other publications, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. They called the FBI in March and locked down the computer system after an Us reporter discovered that someone she was trying to interview knew about an e-mail exchange she just had with an editor using the magazine's computer system, the sources said.

posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2006 07:53:00 AM