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Even achieving the advanced level of OT-VII can't insulate Tom Cruise from piddling, mortal concerns like the near-constant conflict between the famous and the paparazzi. The Scoop discusses an "altercation" involving an aggressive lensman who followed Cruise to the mothership and a Celebrity Centre drone last week:

The photographers swarmed around the center and a security guard went out to photograph the crowd of lensmen. But a Scientology spokesman disputes an account from ContactMusic that suggests that the incident got ugly when one of the paparazzi tried to swipe the guard’s camera.

“The paparazzi were outside our property and our security guard went to photograph him* out of concern for the safety of our parishioners,” Scientology Celebrity Centre spokesman Greg LaClaire told The Scoop. “[Later] our security officer drove away and was at a stop light on a corner. While he was sitting at the stop light, the paparazzi jumped through the passenger window and started beating him. Our security officer defended himself as best he could and then made a citizen arrest on felony charges of battery. He held [the paparazzi] until the police came.”

Cruise’s rep didn’t respond to requests for comment.

We're incredibly disappointed that Tom Cruise, always a hands-on guy, didn't personally—personally!—perform the citizen's arrest. Regardless of who did the arresting, however, that punch-happy photographer was probably begging for an LAPD interrogation after seeing his temporary captor whip out a list of 343 questions while they waited for the police to arrive.

[*Paparazzi Abatement—Everybody's doing it!]