It's Good To Be A Paparazzi

Paparazzi photographer Richard Terry, the subject of a profile by Neon Tommy, was a house painter before Hollywood gossip site X17 hired him to follow and photograph celebrities in Los Angeles. X17 also employees as paparazzi a former member of the notoriously violent Brazilian police force, and a homeless Vietnam vet. Well, the vet was homeless when X17 first lent him a camera – he now has an apartment in Bel-Air.

These amateurs with cameras are raking it in, Neon

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