Move over, Britney. There’s a new paparazzi princess in town. The Los Angeles Times is investigating the paparazzi newfound interest in the World’s Most Popular Teen, Disney star Miley Cyrus. Kids adore her. And in spite of several questionable photos on Myspace a topless potrait in Vanity Fair Magazine, American parents remain enchanted. Miley’s mass likeability is quickly turning the fifteen year old Hannah Montana star into a professional shutterbug’s next little darling.

“Miley is going to steal all of Britney’s thunder. Kids want to see her. They don’t want to see ripped fishnets and fear and mascara-streaked cheeks,” Frank Griffin, of the Bauer-Griffin Paparazzi Agency told the LA Times.

X17Online boss François Navarre agrees, adding that the value of a Miley Cyrus image has skyrocketed in recent months.

“She’s started to sell more. Now the pictures are going for a higher price. It used to be $300, and now it’s $2,000 for a picture. It has to be a nice picture. I have a couple of guys working on her. It’s not like Britney, where we have 24/7 coverage, but we are watching her. If she goes out of town, we try to follow her.”