The fuckin' fucks are the goddam fucking Paparrazzi!!! The powers that be had said that up 'til recently they'd been relatively able to protect the private lives' of the girls. But obviously the fuckers are relentless, and what with H!P at it's largest (in terms of number of members), I guess there was a limit to even what they could do.
Fuck, first Princess Di, then Ayaya, now Mari. At least with Ayaya she didn't have to worry about how her incident would reflect on others, since she's a soloist within H!P. Mari's the leader of MM (the main course of H!P), and as such, chose to bite the bullet and take one to protect the rest of MM (especially the 5th and 6th gen...at least that's how I'm choosing to interpret her reasons for resigning).