When news broke last week that paprazzo Scott Cosman was suing Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards (remember that laptop gently tossed over the balcony?), the photog industry was abuzz with a not-so-well-kept unreported secret: Cosman is one of the owners of Flynet, the agency you’ll remember for working with Us Weekly’s Ken Baker to set up a smoochfest between Teri Hatcher and Ryan Seacrest (a Baker pal) in that makeout session.

Cosman and Rik Fedyck are taking on Richards with a lawsuit charging she went on a rampage after spotting the twosome snapping pics of Anderson on the set of Blonde and Blonder in November ‘06. The part where Denise called him a “fuckkng cockksucker at least 12-15 times as well as scumbags, douche bags and paparazzi scum” allegedly ended with Richards throwing their laptop over the balcony where it landed on an elderly lady.

Now, not only is Flynet currying attention with its own lawsuit, but we hear Radar is turning its attention to the pap agency with a forthcoming report from John Cook about celebrities who team up with pap agencies to sell their own photos. Along with Cosman, a source tells us, the list includes former Us staffer and current CelebrityBabylon and Sunset Photo maestra Jill Ishkanian — who’s charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for Denise Richards set ups. (Also worth noting: Cosman recently married Us photo editor Amy Sultan, who he’s pictured with here.)

And to top things all off, one insider tells us competing pap agency X17 is delighted with all the attention turned Flynet’s way. It might be just enough, they hope, to shift the industry chatter away from their not-so-innocent tale as an employer of ex-gang members who’ve repositioned their aggressive tactics from back alleys to the doors at Hyde.

Though even with Flynet’s controversy, it’s doubtful X17 will lose the attention of a documentary film outfit who’s producing a flick about the agency — that X17 might not even know about yet.