Hey you know how Zimbabwe is a terrible place to live and all, do to the poverty, rampant disease, and lack of food or clean water? And how President Robert Mugabe is basically a dictator-in-training whose family is treated like royalty while his people starve? Ain't none of that a thing when it comes to his wife, Grace, and a little altercation with the paparazzi.

“The man held him while she hit him again and again in the face with her fists. She was screaming, completely crazy,” said Werner Zapletal, a tourist from Austria who witnessed the incident.

Jones, 42, suffered nine cuts, abrasions and bruises to the face and head caused by the heavy, diamond-encrusted rings Mugabe was wearing, according to a medical report by Dr Raymond Ng, a general practitioner in Hong Kong.

Mugabe and her female companion fled around a corner seeking to hide their faces, only to run straight into a second photographer, Tim O’Rourke. He snapped a few pictures before she flew at him with her fists flying, pulled his hair and tried to smash his camera.

Beating a man with your own jeweled fingers? That's pretty hardcore: brass knuckles for the elite. I think we know what Robert's going to get Grace for her next birthday.