A photographer who aggressively pursues celebrities to take candid photos, especially for tabloid newspapers or magazines.
From Italian, coined/popularized by Federico Fellini in his 1960 film 'La Dolce Vita,' where a character named Paparazzo chases celebrities with a camera. The name's origin within Italian is debated but possibly comes from pappataci (a type of gnat).
Fellini literally invented this word for his movie, and it became so culturally resonant that it permanently entered dozens of languages to describe a whole profession that exploded after the film—showing how movies can create real vocabulary to match newly visible social behaviors.
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