A former UCLA Medical Center employee Lawanda Jackson pleaded guilty on Dec. 1 to selling confidential medical information about several celebs to the National Enquirer. She could get a maximum sentence of 10 years with 3 years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 when she is sentenced in May 2009. Don’t ask us why she won’t get sentenced till May. We don’t know.

A Los Angeles Times investigation into this chronic problem at the hospital revealed that since 2003 nearly 165 employees have been either fired or otherwise punished for privacy breaches. Among the medical records that hospital employees illegally accessed were those of Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears, Tom Cruise, Mariah Carey and even Gov. Schwarzenegger’s wife, Maria Shriver.

Meantime Brad Pitt is letting it be known that he hates invasive paps.

“Let me be very blunt, I hate them,” Brad said on NBC’s Today Show. “I hate these people. I don’t understand how they do that for a living.”

For all those busy posting how Brad and Angie are PR ho’s and how hypocritical Brad is, take note that he goes on to point out the difference between professional photographers and paparazzi stalkers.

“We have to make a distinction between people who photograph celebrities at events and people who climb over walls wearing camouflage… calling out your kids’ names as you try to take them to school so they’ll look that way,” Brad continued. “I have no respect for these people. There should be laws against it. They should not be able to follow kids like this, but there’s not right now, so that’s the way it is.”

We agree that the paparazzi very often carry it too far, and then they have the gall to sue if they get their cameras broken or their lights punched out. Harassing people and their kids is just wrong.

And as for the medical records, well, the tabloids are behind all that, offering people huge sums of money to break the law. Isn’t that soliciting of some kind?