NEWSMAKERS

Hot couple Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake got into a big fight last week, but luckily--deep breath, folks--not with each other. After paparazzo Saul Lazo, 21, unwisely jumped out of the dark to snap shots of the two lovebirds leaving Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel on Nov. 6, Diaz apparently put her "Charlie's Angels" training to good use. The overmatched photographer learned firsthand that Diaz did at least some of her own stunt work. She allegedly struck Lazo in the neck, then wrestled away his camera and took off with it. Publicists for the couple released a statement insisting that they were "ambushed by two men"--the other one snapped shots of the melee, quickly published by Us magazine--"who jumped out of a concealed hiding place on a dark, deserted street late at night. Any actions by Diaz and Timberlake were merely taken in self-defense." The photographers have now filed a lawsuit against the couple. Good. Now we'll get to see Diaz kick butt again--in court. Maybe she could even play herself on a very special episode of "Judge Judy."

--Jac Chebatoris

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