Jennifer Aniston is suing a paparazzo, claiming he invaded her privacy by using a telephoto lens to photograph her inside her home when she was topless or partly undressed.

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that photographer Peter Brandt must have observed Aniston “from a great distance through invasive, intrusive and unlawful measures.”

The photos “could have been taken only by means of trespass” and were shot in a place where she had reasonable expectations of privacy, the actress, who starred on NBC’s “Friends,” claims in the suit.

Aniston, 36, is seeking monetary damages and a court order to stop Brandt and anyone else from making money from the photos. Her lawyers warn that publications risk paying hefty sums.

Aniston previously sued a different photographer for allegedly scaling a neighbor’s eight-foot wall and photographing her sunbathing topless in her backyard.

Francois Navarre, owner of Los Angeles paparazzi agency X-17, paid Aniston $550,000 two years ago to settle an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.

Aniston’s latest lawsuit comes as the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office is investigating whether increasingly aggressive celebrity photogs are initiating confrontations to capture lucrative photos.

Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson and Lindsay Lohan have had run-ins with paparazzi recently.

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REVISED BAWDY VERSION

A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, including a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson’s hair and a nude Eve offering an apple.

“There’s a whole range of biblical scriptures simply bursting with eroticism,” said Stefan Wiest, 32, who took the pictures.

Anne Rohmer, 21, poses on a doorstep in garters and stockings as the prostitute Rahab, who is mentioned in both New and Old Testaments. “We wanted to represent the Bible in a different way and to interest young people,” she told Reuters.

“Anyway, it doesn’t say anywhere in the Bible that you are forbidden to show yourself nude.”

Bernd Grasser, pastor of the church in Nuremberg where the calendar is being sold, was enthusiastic about the project.

“It’s just wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with their hair and their skin to the Bible,” he said.

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STORK REPORT

Adam Sandler, 39, is going to be a real-life Big Daddy. The comedian’s wife, Jackie, is expecting the couple’s first child in the spring, a source close to the couple told People.

The couple wed on June 22, 2003, at Dick Clark’s oceanfront Malibu estate before 400 guests – among them Jennifer Aniston, Brendan Fraser, Dustin Hoffman, Rodney Dangerfield, Sharon Osbourne and Rob Schneider.

They have been together for seven years. Jackie, 31, a model and actress, has a brief role in her husband’s film “Big Daddy”: She plays the waitress who takes his order for a root beer in the sports-bar scene.

In other nursery news, Angela Bassett and her husband, fellow actor Courtney B. Vance, are expecting twins via a surrogate, says a source close to the star of “How “Stella Got Her Groove Back” and “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”

The source adds: “The babies are due in a couple months.” A publicist for Bassett had no comment.

Bassett, 47, and Vance, 45, have been a couple since 1996, when Vance (“The Preacher’s Wife”) ran into Bassett at a play in Los Angeles.

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FRIEND OF THE EARTH

He showed up at the Oscars in a hybrid car and lobbied loudly for worldwide access to clean water. Now actor-activist Leonardo DiCaprio is making a documentary about global environmental issues.

He has begun production on “11th Hour,” a feature-length film that explores global warming and offers solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.

“Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity,” DiCaprio, 31, said in a statement.

The film is scheduled to be released in fall 2006.

DiCaprio, who earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Howard Hughes in 2004’s “The Aviator,” established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998 to raise awareness about environmental issues.

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(This column contains information from wire services.)

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