Paparazzi, guards fight at Brangelina chateau

Paris – It sounds like a scene from “Fight Club.”

French police say camouflaged paparazzi who managed to get onto the grounds of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s chateau in southern France on Thursday fought with the Hollywood couple’s guards. Both the paparazzi and the Jolie-Pitt’s head of security confirmed the confrontation but gave widely different versions of events.

Freelance photographer Luc Goursolas said he broke a guard’s finger and bit another until he bled, and that they hit him with a walkie-talkie, punched and kicked him, leaving a head wound that required three stitches.

“I was pouring blood. I threw myself at them, put blood all over them, and told them that I had HIV so they would stop hitting me,” Goursolas told The Associated Press on Friday.

Tony Webb, head of security at the Miraval estate, said Goursolas went “berserk” without provocation and denied that his guards punched the photographer.

He said Jolie and Pitt may be forced to move if their privacy is not respected, and that the couple feels besieged. He said local police are not taking the problem seriously enough.

“If they get invasion of their privacy like this then they would have no option, and they would have to go somewhere where the laws are upheld a bit better,” Webb told the AP.