Bite me! Nicole Richie and 8-month-old Harlow face the paparazzi in Los Angeles on Sept. 12. (©X17Agency.com)

Is Nicole Richie suffering from an intermittent case of extreme camera shyness? Although she calmly faced the paparazzi on Friday in Los Angeles while toting adorable (and teething) daughter Harlow, she apparently wasn't in the mood for candid pictures during New York Fashion Week.

A spy alleges to the New York Post that Nicole threw a Kanye-style hissy when a "young, Swedish tourist" tried to snap her photo as she exited a post-runway party for designer Charlotte Ronson a few days back.

The starlet supposedly channeled the Elephant Man by hollering, "I'm not an animal" before she "jumped over the velvet rope, ripped the camera out of the girl's hand, and smashed it to the ground," asserts the eyewitness.

Metromix New York says it had a similar -- albeit less hands-on -- Richie run-in at the bash, contending that her boyfriend Joel Madden "threatened our photographer" if a photo of her wasn't promptly deleted (he did let the shutterbug take his picture, however).

And it appears Richie isn't the only non-A-lister feeling flashbulb-averse these days.

A Perez Hilton operative relays an alleged encounter with Jessica Biel last week as she and beau Justin Timberlake made their way hand in hand out of his Southern Hospitality restaurant in New York.

Seems a customer took the strapping actress's picture, an act that purportedly stopped her "in her tracks" and caused her to turn to the amateur paparazzo and "very loudly" say, "That was ruuuuuuuuuuuude!"

That's the same accusation some Manhattan residents have leveled at Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Mary-Kate slips into an SUV on the streets of New York earlier this year.

According to the New York Post, their bodyguards are disturbing the peace on a low-key block in the West Village, where the teeny twin moguls are reportedly renting a $12,000-a-month pad.

"They are disruptive, intrusive and totally disrespectful," rants one neighbor, with another slamming the siblings as "two spoiled brats" who have changed "the character of the neighborhood" with their security detail.

The moles maintain that the minders leave their SUVs idling for hours at a time and have gone so far as to shoo away residents from the building's stoop so MK and Ashley can enter the building without any prying eyes.

"It is a peaceful, quiet street," a source explains to the paper. "Plenty of other celebrities around this block [Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler, Gisele Bundchen and Julianne Moore] are good neighbors and blend in with the neighborhood -- but these two are invaders."

The Olsens' rep, however, denies their bodyguards have ever given residents the heave-ho from the stoop, adding to the paper, "If there were significant issues, you would think that the neighbors would address Ashley or Mary-Kate directly, rather than calling the media."

By the by, MK's hired muscle also made their presence known during Fashion Week. According to People, when the sartorially eccentric Olsen hit the front row of the Benjamin Cho show with her artist-boyfriend Nate Lowman, her bodyguards positioned themselves right smack on the runway until the catwalking began.

Woody Allen makes sure Scarlett's heart is in the right place at last month's Los Angeles premiere of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

Meanwhile, has the special place that Scarlett Johansson holds in Woody Allen's heart turned her from sweet to sour?

The New York Post says producers on the director's critically lauded "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" have been kvetching that the actress "isn't the same. ... She's turned into the biggest prima donna."

The execs have apparently been sniping how "everyone" thought Johansson was a "sweetheart" while filming "Match Point" but now she's "let it get to her head."

Johansson's rep diplomatically tells the paper, "Scarlett loves the movie and enjoyed working with everyone on it."

And finally, accusations of bitchiness are a-flying on the set of the new "90210."

On the heels of a National Enquirer report that claimed newcomer Shenae Grimes was overheard complaining about veteran bad girl Shannen Doherty's treatment of the crew ("Shenae was saying that Shannen talks down to the costume designers and caterers like they're her servants," a source asserted to the tab), the New York Post is now claiming the up-and-comer is pulling her own Brenda Walsh 'tude.

Insiders fume that Grimes, 18, is "tormenting everyone on set" and "acts rude to the cast, crew and extras," with one source quoting her as declaring, "This is my show -- everyone else is riding my coattails."