Aggrieved ingénues receive vindication in court—and Kim Kardashian is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in our latest edition of Hollywood Behaving Badly.
Most of the civilized world—and no doubt a few alien species, given the widespread press coverage—now understand what it means to “flour-bomb” someone, thanks to Kim Kardashian.
The celebutante was working the red carpet press line Thursday night to promote her new fragrance True Reflection when a protester dumped flour on her expensively coiffed hair and pricey clothes.
Photos of the socialite dredged in white powder, surrounded by shocked publicists and other onlookers, quickly went viral. The woman who allegedly flour-bombed Kardashian was led away by security; she was not taken into custody and is yet to be identified.
TMZ reports the woman shouted “fur hag” before dumping the flour.
Kardashian told E! Online that she might yet press charges. “I am just going to think about it, because I don’t want someone to think they can really get away with that,” she said today. “So we are going to handle that.”
She notes the event was intended to benefit the nonprofit organization Dress for Success. “I just think it is such a shame that someone like that… would ruin an event, or attempt to ruin an event, that was based around, not only my fragrance, but this organization.”
“I mean, that’s what the event was about. These women flew in from all over the country to be a part of this event, that are underprivileged women, that really got the shine taken away from them a little bit. I feel bad that it was kind of derailed from that.”
Kardashian was understandably shaken, but there is a silver lining. Thanks to the flour-bombing, tens of millions in free publicity was generated for Dress for Success. And also, as luck would have it, that new perfume in stores now.
Kim Kardashian isn’t nthe only celebrity feeling the sting of bad media behavior. Starlets including Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson were vindicated when it was announced that“stalkerazzi” Christopher Chaney, 35, will plead guilty to “nine felony counts, including unauthorized access to a computer and wiretapping,” reports Huffington Post Celebrity.
“Chaney mined through publicly available data to figure out password and security questions for celebrity accounts. He hijacked a forwarding feature so that a copy of every email a celebrity received was sent to an account he controlled, according to court documents.”
Johansson, in particular, had private nude photos stolen and disseminated online. Chaney is “remorseful for any of the harm he caused to the stars, and looks forward to a resolution of the case,” his prosecutor said. He could face up to 60 years in prison and will face a federal court judge on Monday for sentencing.
The upshot for celebrities in this case: If a “stalkerazzi” can easily guess your password, then your mother’s birthdate and your cat’s name probably aren’t going to do the trick.