When Lady Gaga finally enters an event held Tuesday in midtown Manhattan, she is running at least an hour behind schedule as dinner is well underway.
Donning a black lace-up headpiece that makes her face look like a lollipop, the singer doesn’t say a word to a line of print and television reporters awaiting her 9:03 p.m. arrival. (Thinking about it, she is wrapped so tightly that any mouth movement would lead to saliva buildup.) She strikes artsy slo-mo poses that include clawing, and struts inside poker-faced to all questions.
This is weird, I recall thinking, but when dealing with Lady Gaga, who knows.
“She’s not talking to anyone,” a handler says. “They tried to tackle her outside.”
I grab coconut and strawberry-infused Godiva candies, and step outside where a scene of mayhem is taking place. A photographer lays on the sidewalk, his face ashen, with medical help surrounding him. A photographer I recognize tells me, “A.J. is not breathing.”
UPDATE: According to a fellow photographer who is on the scene when the accident happens, the gang is packing up and ready to leave when the man falls and hits his head on the concrete. The photographer says he had prior medical issues, and Lady Gaga is already inside.
“He was a very kind person who was always very helpful with other photographers,” the shutterbug, who asks to remain nameless, tells me. “It’s sad it happened on a cold, concrete pavement.”
UPDATE TWO: According to another photographer, the man suffers a massive heart attack, pending autopsy, after Lady Gaga arrives.
What a horrifying way to go. May the dear photographer rest in peace.
“Gaga’s arrival made [him] pass out”?
Why?
So stupid.
The bish is fierce for sure, but the Fame Monster killed him, not Gagita bb.
keep tryin tho
Remove this fake, absurd article. I was there. This is totally untrue.
this is 100 percent false
not true
lies
that is not what important
sad and true… was not there though I know the photographer
he was a nice sweet caring person and is gone now.
For those of you who say this is false you are forgiven you didn’t know AJ…I will miss AJ Sokalner dearly we had the best times covering fashion week nyc each season…RIP AJ
gaga need to stop.
thats a lie shes innocent he had a heart attack!!!!!!!!
shes a innocent woman she never did any thing wrong
what is this? it sounds so contrived. a pap died as a result of gaga’s arrival? this is so andy kaufman.
this story is false
he died AFTER the even
and he wasnt on a ladder
ok magazine should be sued for such print
I was there when it all happened and he was on a step ladder while taking photos of lady gaga. I didn’t see him fall but I saw him as soon as he fell. He was trying to move but he was stiff and was not breathing. Another photographer was pumping his chest and he would gasp one breAth like every 30 seconds but by the time the ambulance came and tried to recover him he already looked dead to me. His mouth wide open and eyes wide open not breathing not moving. It was scary to me. His body looked lifeless to me before they put him in the ambulance he looked gone already. May his soul rest in peace.
Wow, this is about the weakest piece of “journalism” I’ve ever seen from an online publication, including total hack sites written by teenagers in the basements of suburban homes who’ve never come within 10 miles of an actual journalism class. You should be sued for a gross misrepresentation of what happened - some guy has a heart attack outside the venue after a celebrity arrives, and she’s somehow the cause?
Sh*tty work, OK.
She didn’t do anything wrong.