If you think Zimbabwe-based dictator Robert Mugabe’s got an attitude problem, you should get a load of his wife, Grace. According to Britain’s Times, Mrs. Mugabe went a bit ballistic on pesky paparazzi during a recent trip to Hong Kong. The paps caught Grace coming out of her luxury hotel — and she wasn’t too pleased to see them. And, not one to do anything halfway, 43-year-old Mrs. Mugabe allegedly had her bodyguard help with her dirty work:

Holding a Jimmy Choo-style bag estimated to be worth at least £2,000, and hiding behind Cavalli rhinestone-framed glasses with a red cashmere shawl over her head, she ordered her bodyguard to attack the photographer, Richard Jones.

While the guard tried to wrestle away Jones’s camera, she joined in the assault.

“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.

During the assault more burly bodyguards came running from the hotel but were intercepted by security men from a nearby commercial building.

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. She then hurried back to her five-star refuge.

Hong Kong’s police are currently investigating the matter. Jones today offered them his second account of the matter.

In addition to living it up in Hong Kong, Mrs. Mugabe has spent recent weeks jetting around Asia, and made stops in Malaysia and Singapore. She reportedly took out $92,000 prior to her departure. Her countrymen back home, meanwhile, are starving, fighting an increasingly deadly cholera outbreak and generally wasting away.

It would seem this lady’s taken a page from her husband’s book of brutality.