Canadian police released a statement on Friday that actress Denise Richards won’t face criminal charges regarding an incident with paparazzi Wednesday on the set of her new movie Blonde and Blonder. Richards had hurled the laptop computers of two photographers off the balcony of the hotel at the River Rock Casino and Hotel in Richmond, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver, and a computer struck an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair.
“The photographers, Denise Richards and her management company have agreed to settle the matter civilly regarding the damages to the photographers’ laptops,? Cpl. Peter Thiessen, a media-relations officer for the Richmond Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said in a statement. “It is not in the public interest to forward criminal charges regarding this matter?
The movie production company for Blonde and Blonder, which also stars Pamela Anderson, issued a statement about the incident on Thursday: “Yesterday evening, while filming a scene, a number of unauthorized persons entered the film set and began harrassing members of the cast. While trying to stop the paparazzi, Denise Richards was involved in an altercation. To protect her safety she instinctively knocked the paparazzo’s laptops off a ledge?
Richards and cast members were “very upset? about the incident, Howard Blank, a representative of the production, said. Filming was stopped for an hour after the incident and then resumed.
A rep for Richards said, “Based on the actions of the paparazzi, they are lucky their laptops are the only things that were tossed over the balcony?
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