Bruce Willis in court suing a paparazzo

Bruce Willis in court suing a paparazzo

According to the legal action, the actor suffered "shame, mortification, hurt feelings, embarrassment, humiliation and damage to the value of [his] name, likeness and goodwill".

Willis said in the suit, filed in Beverly Hills Superior Court, that he hit no one and merely held his hands in front of his face to avoid being blinded by camera flashes as he entered a Japanese restaurant popular with celebrities, the AP reports.

He said contact with photographer Anthony Goodrich was "exceedingly minimal and inadvertent" and Goodrich slandered him by telling the Web site TMZ.com that Willis had stiff-armed him, struck his camera lens and pushed it into his face.