Paparazzi 

(US: /ˌpɑːpəˈrɑːtsi/, UK: /ˌpæpəˈrætsi/; Italian: [papaˈrattsi]; singular:
masculine paparazzo or feminine paparazza) are independent photographers
who take pictures of high-profile people, such as actors, athletes, politicians, and
other celebrities, typically while subjects go about their usual life routines.
Paparazzi tend to make a living by selling their photographs to media outlets that
focus on tabloid journalism and sensationalism (such as gossip magazines).

Description[edit]
Paparazzi tend to be independent contractors, unaffiliated with mainstream
media organizations, and photos taken are usually done so by taking advantage
of opportunities when they have sightings of high-profile people they are tracking.
[1]
 Some experts have described the behavior of paparazzi as synonymous
with stalking, and anti-stalking bills in many countries address the issue by
reducing harassment of public figures and celebrities, especially with their
children.[2] Some public figures and celebrities have expressed concern at the
extent to which paparazzi go to invade their personal space.[3] The filing and
receiving of judicial support for restraining orders against paparazzi has
increased, as have lawsuits with judgments against them.[4]

Famous paparazzi[edit]
Walter Santesso portrays Paparazzo in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita, marking the
character as the eponym of the word paparazzi.[5]
Ron Galella is most known for suing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis after the
former First Lady ordered her Secret Service agents to destroy Galella’s camera
and film following an encounter in New York City's Central Park in the early
1970s.
Rino Barillari is an Italian paparazzo known as the "King of the Paparazzi" in
Italy. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1998.

Etymology[edit]
A news photographer named Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso in the 1960
film La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini) is the eponym of the
word paparazzi.[6] In his book Word and Phrase, Robert Hendrickson writes that
Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect word that describes a particularly
annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. [citation needed] As Fellini said in his
interview to Time magazine, "Paparazzo ... suggests to me a buzzing insect,
hovering, darting, stinging."[7] Those versions of the word's origin are sometimes
contested. For example, in the Abruzzo dialect spoken by Ennio Flaiano, co-
scriptwriter of La Dolce Vita, the term paparazzo refers to the local
clam, Venerupis decussata, and is also used as a metaphor for the shutter of a
camera lens.
Further, in an interview with Fellini's screenwriter Flaiano, he said the name
came from the book Sulla riva