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J. K. Rowling as well.
J.K. Rowling chased from home by press, she says - CNN.com
The allegation is that they're public figures, wealthy (thanks to the public, so the old song goes), and this is the price they pay for the honor. That's obviously unmitigated bullshit, but it's what the paparazzi apparently tell themselves so they can sleep at night.
J.K. Rowling chased from home by press, she says - CNN.com
London (CNN) -- Paparazzi hounded "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling after her children were born so constantly that she felt like a hostage in her own house, she told a government-backed inquiry into British press ethics and practices Thursday.
She could not go outside without being photographed for a week after the births of her second and third children, she told the Leveson Inquiry.
And it was "hard to say how I angry I was" at finding that a journalist had managed to slip a note into her 5-year-old daughter's school bag, she said.
"A child, no matter who their parents are, deserves privacy. ... It's a fairly black-and-white issue," she said, arguing that a child had no say in who their parents were or what they did.
She had to move out of an earlier house because of harassment by journalists, she said.
"I really was a sitting duck for anyone that wanted to find me," Rowling said of the home she bought just as her fictional boy wizard became a worldwide sensation in 1997.
The allegation is that they're public figures, wealthy (thanks to the public, so the old song goes), and this is the price they pay for the honor. That's obviously unmitigated bullshit, but it's what the paparazzi apparently tell themselves so they can sleep at night.