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Looks like some good finally came of Sienna Miller's relationship with Balthazar Getty. Relatively speaking, that is.

The Factory Girl thesp has accepted roughly $27,000 in damages and an apology from Britain's Daily Star tabloid after the tabloid published a photo taken of her in Los Angeles earlier this month in which she was clearly in distress and, as she claimed, being harassed by the paparazzi.

The photo in question was published Sept. 11. It shows the 26-year-old in the lobby of a Los Angeles building cornered by more than a dozen cameramen while waiting for an elevator.

Video footage of the scene showed Miller red-faced and near tears.

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Sienna Miller's mom wants the press to back off her beleaguered daughter—and presumably boyfriend Balthazar Getty.

“You can’t understand how a woman seeing a man who has been separated from his wife [Rosetta Getty] for months can cause such a scandal," Jo Miller told the Daily Express. "It’s awful, I can’t tell you. You wonder when it’s all going to stop.”

The problem is, Balthazar may not have been entirely separated, according to People. "Any implication otherwise is an absolute lie. Balthazar's affair has been utterly devastating to Rosetta and her family," says a source.

Should mom Miller have checked her facts a little more closely before commenting? Chime in with our poll after the jump...

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Well, it obviously wasn't laughing gas.

While filling up her car at a Malibu station Monday, Sienna Miller found herself surrounded by paparazzi and being questioned about her relationship with married actor Balthazar Getty. You know, the guy she's been hanging out with, sometimes topless, while his wife is at home with their four kids.

Well, it seems the actress didn't care for all the attention and proceeded to drive to the Beverly Hills police station (with about 30 cars following her) to request an escort.

What do you all think? Has Sienna brought this upon herself, or should she simply be left alone? Sound off in our comments section.

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Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott's Robin Hood remake is unwelcome in Sherwood—at least based on the way things are going.

Production on the upcoming Nottingham, directed by Scott and starring Crowe as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Sienna Miller as Maid Marian, has been delayed indefinitely, according to distributor Universal Pictures.

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Sienna Miller has been called many things by the press. Pushover's not one of them.

For the second time in seven months, the paparazzi-hounded actress has launched legal action against two British tabloids for running topless photos of her—this time with new beau Balthazar Getty—thereby setting off a particularly rousing round of home-wrecker rumors about Miller.

Miller's law firm, Carter-Ruck, has served breach-of-privacy papers to News of the World, The Sun and Big Pictures, the photo agency that snapped the candids of Miller and Getty's clothes-eschewing vacation to Italy.

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Those rumors (and denials) of a Sienna Miller-Balthazar Getty romance?

Photos like these probably won't help make them go away.

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This definitely gives special meaning to the phrase "giving one's shirt off one's back"—or, in this case, one's blue-checkered PJs.

Sienna Miller poignantly recalls the time when she and her Casanova costar, the late Heath Ledger, went out one night with her mother while shooting in Venice.

"It had been pouring with rain and Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's Square and we were running around, and I slipped over on my arse," she tells the U.K.'s Telegraph. "He picked me up and everyone started laughing. We all ran back to his flat and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."

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"Chicken and stuffing sandwiches; milk chocolate with salt-and-vinegar crisps, in the mouth at the same time—you just have to try it—and french fries dipped in a chocolate milkshake."

—Sienna Miller, revealing her curious cravings in the July issue of Elle U.K. (And the actress isn't even preggers—or engaged to boyfriend Rhys Ifans. "It's so embarrassing when these stories come out and your relationship has been somehow fast-forwarded.")

As red carpet photos can attest, Sienna Miller was more than happy to pose for admiring photographers at Sunday night's BAFTA Awards. What a difference a year—and some overly aggressive, noncredentialed shutterbugs—makes.

Hours after losing out in the Rising Star category at the British answer to the Oscars, the Factory Girl star appeared in a London court to testify in the criminal trial of a friend who came to her rescue during a particularly harrowing paparazzi chase following last year's BAFTA ceremony.

Otis Ferry, the son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, was facing charges for his white-knight antics in the cat-and-mouse chase on Feb. 12, 2007. Overeager photographers surrounded Miller's car upon her exit from a private after-party at London's tony Boujis nightclub.

"I felt scared and threatened," Miller said in her 30 minutes on the witness stand of the West London Magistrates Court. "Their actions were aggressive, to say the least.

"I believed it was particularly frenzied on this occasion because they did not know where I lived, and they were particularly keen to find out so they could follow me and get the pictures they wanted."

During the chase, the 26-year-old phoned her friend Ferry, who along with brother Isaac was following Miller back to her home. Otis somehow twice managed to approach to the paparazzi-driven vehicles and pull the keys out of their ignitions to stop, or at least slow, the dangerous pursuit.

The Interview star, no stranger to daily flashbulbs, said she was forced to slouch in the backseat of the Mercedes and described the prowling photographers as "lunatics."

"We were all quite shocked at the way they were driving," Miller said. "The reason they were being that reckless is they wanted to find out where I lived, which makes you fell quite hunted as a woman."

Miller, who, fashionistas will be pleased to know, donned a dark gray skirt suit for her turn in court, said paparazzi were already pursuing her even before she made it to her vehicle from the nightclub, at roughly 4:30 a.m. The shutterbugs had chased her to the point where she had to make a mad dash to the car.

"In any situation, if you are a woman and you are running and there are men chasing you, it's a threatening situation," she said. "They were really aggressive, driving really dangerously, undercutting, overtaking, flashing through the window at a moving vehicle."

Miller further claimed she felt "hunted" by the photographers that night, something that takes some doing, as the star told the court she was followed by no fewer than five paparazzi-manned vehicles on her way to the courthouse.

The 25-year-old Ferry, a pro-hunting campaigner in England, had pleaded not guilty to the two charges of criminal damages. Photographers claimed it cost them almost $400 to replace the keys the celebuspawn ripped from the ignition and hurled. The photogs claim they were never able to locate the keys.

While Ferry denied responsibility for the damages, he did cop to having performed the actions.

Following Miller's Monday testimony, the star's friend was cleared of any legal wrongdoing. While District Judge David Sampson called Ferry's actions "impetuous," he said they did not constitute any criminal damage. He also issued a terse warning to the offending paparazzi, telling them they would be wise not to hold out for any public sympathy in their plight, thanks to their relentless and often deadly pursuit of stars.

"Those members of the public who do not have a seemingly insatiable desire for celebrity pictures might not have much sympathy for the paparazzi, bearing in mind, no doubt, their treatment of the late Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton and, more recently, Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears."