Kidman wins paparazzi restraint
 |  International star Kidman has just returned home to Australia to prepare for a new film, "Eucalyptus." |
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|  VIDEO | A listening device was placed near Kidman's home.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian film star Nicole Kidman has won interim restraining orders against two Sydney-based paparazzi photographers.
The orders, made Thursday by a Sydney local court, remain in force until a court hearing next month.
They prevent the two men from approaching Kidman or going within 20 meters of her Sydney home.
One of the men, Jamie Fawcett, is the country's best known paparazzi photographer. The other photographer is Ben McDonald, 32, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Kidman arrived in Australia on Sunday to prepare for her new film "Eucalyptus".
Following what the star's family said was harassment by photographers, Kidman applied for the orders that would restrict them from approaching her.
Lawyer Roland Day, representing the two photographers, termed Kidman's legal action "extreme".
Thursday's court decision came two days after a listening device was found across the road from Kidman's home in the Sydney harborside suburb of Darling Point.
The device was found where Kidman's security staff gather.
"At the time this device was found there were media paparazzi, if I may use that term, in the street," police inspector Grant Taylor told reporters Tuesday.
Police had notified the Oscar-winning star of the discovery of the device, Taylor said, Reuters news agency reported.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that security footage shot from Kidman's home showed a man planting the listening device on Sunday.
Police said the listening device was commonly available in electronics stores.
Kidman's father, Antony Kidman, earlier told Australian Broadcasting television that the star was in Australia to make a film but had found herself "almost a prisoner in her own house".
In 1999, a freelance journalist was convicted in the United States of illegally taping an intercepted telephone call from Kidman to her then husband, actor Tom Cruise, and selling the tape to a tabloid newspaper.
Kidman's 10-year marriage to Cruise ended in 2001.
