French filmmaker Luc Besson’s company fined over death of cameraman on movie set

September 18th, 2009 Designer Alexander's sister fined for contemptLOS ANGELES — The sister of fashion designer and convicted rapist Anand Jon Alexander has been fined $1,000 for contacting a juror during her brother's trial. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge fined Sanjana Alexander on Friday.

September 4th, 2009 Suspected gang member eyed in filmmaker's killingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Christian Poveda spent years documenting El Salvador's Mara 18 street gang, practically living among its members while filming initiations, drug use, tattoo sessions and funerals. Authorities believe Poveda, 53, fell victim to the same brutal violence he portrayed in his documentary "La Vida Loca," after the French filmmaker was found shot in the head in a car outside the capital, San Salvador.

September 3rd, 2009 El Salvador arrests 1 in French filmmaker's deathSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been found shot to death after heading out to a dangerous gang-dominated neighborhood. Police said a suspected member of the Mara 18 gang was arrested Thursday on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Christian Poveda, a former war photographer whose latest film takes an intimate look at the violent lives of gang members deported back to the Central American country after serving time in U.S.

September 3rd, 2009 El Salvador probes killing of French filmmakerSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been found shot to death after heading out to a dangerous gang-dominated neighborhood. El Salvador's top prosecutor said Thursday the involvement of gangs was under consideration in the killing of Christian Poveda, a former war photographer whose latest film takes an intimate look at the violent lives of gang members deported back to the Central American country after serving time in U.S.

September 2nd, 2009 French documentary filmmaker killed in El SalvadorSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent 16 months documenting the brutality and poverty of an El Salvador street gang has been murdered, a victim of the extreme violence he was trying to bring attention to. Police say they found the body of Christian Poveda, 53, on Wednesday inside a car in Tonacatepeque, a rural region north of the Salvadoran capital.

August 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - R 'n' B singer Beyonce's visit to the Croatian coastal resort of Dubrovnik is said to have ended with one of her bodyguards coming to blows with a local paparazzo. According to the online edition of the Jutarnji List daily, footage showed Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z heading to a boat anchored in the medieval port, while the bodyguard kicked a 57-year-old Croatian cameraman in the back several times, reports the Daily Telegraph.

July 28th, 2009 French artist sculpts Jackson in outdoor tributePARIS — French artist Jean-Baptiste Seckler is sculpting a public tribute to the late Michael Jackson in front of Paris' Pompidou Center. Seckler says he wanted to sculpt outdoors to break "the silence and the concentration" required by sculpting or painting.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - Officials investigating Michael Jackson's death have sought information from the maker of the powerful anaesthetic propofol as part of their probe. A spokesman for Teva Pharmaceuticals said the Drug Enforcement Administration had contacted the company about a specific batch of the drug.

June 18th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood's ace filmmaker Woody Allen is eyeing supermodel-turned actress, singer and French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy as his next muse. The "Annie Hall" director was promoting his new movie "Whatever Works in Paris" in France Thursday and when French reporters quizzed him on who he would love to work with, Allen revealed he was desperate to get Bruni in front of the camera, reports imdb.com.

June 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - English music manager Sharon Osbourne reportedly owes the State of California more than 23,000 dollars, after being fined for allegedly failing to pay her taxes in 2007. Osbourne, 56, who earned a huge salary as a judge on 'The X-Factor' and 'America's Got Talent' in 2007, allegedly did not pay her tax bill of 436,026 dollars, reports Contactmusic.

June 9th, 2009 'Perfect Storm' skipper fined for illegal fishingISLE AU HAUT, Maine — Fisherman and author Linda Greenlaw, who survived the nor'easter that was the basis for the book and movie "The Perfect Storm," was fined Tuesday for fishing illegally in Canadian waters. A judge in St.

June 8th, 2009 Geneva police: Singer Doherty detained for drugsGENEVA — British singer Pete Doherty was fined by Geneva police for heroin consumption during a flight from London, a police spokesman said Monday. The 30-year-old rocker was picked up by officers after the British Airways flight landed Friday, and held for two hours, police spokesman Jean-Philippe Brandt said Monday.

June 8th, 2009 Singer Doherty detained for heroin use on flightGENEVA — British singer Pete Doherty was fined by Geneva police for heroin consumption during a flight from London, authorities said Monday. The 30-year-old rocker was picked up by officers after the 1 hour, 40-minute British Airways flight landed Friday, and held for two hours, police spokesman Jean-Philippe Brandt said Monday.

May 26th, 2009 PARIS - Italian actress Monica Bellucci's apartment was burgled while she was attending the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival. The actress, who is married to French actor Vincent Cassel, had jewellery, her passport, laptop computers and other items worth around $112,000 stolen from her Paris home while she was in the French Riviera, reported contactmusic.com A police spokesperson has confirmed that an unknown number of burglars entered the building, in the eastern part of the French capital, from a terrace.

May 21st, 2009 PARIS - British actress Lucy Gordon, who portrayed reporter Jennifer Dugan in 'Spiderman 3', has committed suicide in her Paris apartment, France-Info radio reported Thursday. Gordon took her own life Wednesday, just two days before her 29th birthday.