Crazy in Love: Stars and Stalkers
Celebrities with obsessive and dangerous fans.
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Crazy in Love: Stars and Stalkers - There's nothing wrong with getting a little excited about seeing our favorite stars, but some fans step way past the line when paying homage to their idols. Celebs have had to endure everything from break-ins to death threats from their stalkers. Keep flipping for our list of stars and their stalkers.(Photos: PacificCoastNews.com)
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Wendy Williams - The talk show queen makes a living invading others' privacy, but got an unwanted taste of her own medicine when an obsessed fan managed to break into her New York City studio. The perpetrator reportedly made a habit of loitering around Williams's workplace until he was finally able to get past security. Thankfully, he was apprehended and escorted out before any real damage could be done. (Photo: Jose Perez, PacificCoastNews)
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Sanaa Lathan - The Best Man Holiday actress found herself in midst of a real-life horror show when she came home to find a man sleeping in her bed. The deranged fan later told police he was Lathan's husband, and was promptly arrested for trespassing. The stalker was ordered into intensive psychotherapy to rid him of his obsession.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Michael Strahan - The Good Morning America host had his life threatened by a crazed homeless man recently, who attempted to break into ABC studios brandishing a knife with the intention to kill Strahan. Thankfully, cops were able to contain the mad man before he could get to Strahan. Still, it's a good thing the GMA host used to play defense. (Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
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Jennifer Lopez - It's scary enough when a stalker breaks into your home, but in J.Lo's case, he decided to move in for nearly a week. John M. Dubis, 43, took residence in the pool house of Lopez's Southampton estate in early August 2013, presumably waiting for the singer to get home. Luckily, she was out of town at the time, but that didn't stop her from getting a restraining order against Dubis, who is in police custody. As for Lopez's swanky $10 million estate, it reportedly came with a "privacy guarantee." So much for that.(Photo: PacificCoastNews.com)
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Halle Berry - The beautiful actress had to contend with a creep by the name of Richard Franco in 2013. The sick fan was caught trying to scale the walls of Berry's Los Angeles home three times before he was arrested. Franco was sentenced to 386 days in jail, but was released in half that time. Still, Berry has a 10-year restraining order against him. (Photo: Splash News)
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Michael Jackson - The late pop star was revealed to be the object of a crazed stalker in 1992 who sent him — and, unrelatedly, President George H.W. Bush — multiple death threats. According to FBI files, released in 2009 after Jackson's death, the stalker was obsessed with MJ's sister Janet Jackson and wanted to commit "mass murder" at one of his concerts and then kill the music icon himself. The stalker was sentenced to two years in prison for his threats.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Justin Timberlake - JT was on the recieving end of some unwanted female attention last year, when a 50-something woman showed up at the singer's house, claiming to know him and referring to herself as "god." The stalker, Karen McNeil, also claimed that she and Timberlake were meant to "rule together" and that she was being pursued by witches. But JT wasn't the first star McNeil had stalked. She displayed similar behavior toward rocker Axl Rose. Timberlake won a restraining order against the crazed fan.(Photo: Thomas Janssen/Pacificcoastnews.com)
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Jamie Foxx - Foxx had an unexpected visitor to his Philadelphia hotel room a few years ago, when a man posing as Beyoncé's producer tried to get in. When the actor realized the man was a stalker who had made two other attempts to enter his room in the same week, he managed to forcibly remove him and slam the door in his face. Cops were called a few weeks later when the man showed up to the set of Foxx's film, and he was quickly arrested.(Photo: PacificCoastNews.com)
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Tyra Banks - The supermodel has had to endure a number of stalkers over the years, but the most dangerous seem to be Brady Green, arrested in 2009 for harassing Banks (he served no jail time but a restraining order was put in place), and then Marten Williams, Jr. just one year later. Banks sought a restraining order against Williams in 2010 after learning he had been stalking her for four years, including leaving her "ominous frightening letters and items" at her home and declaring that 1/08/11 was to be their wedding day. At the time of his arrest, Williams also believed he had killed President George W. Bush and that Michael Jackson was still alive.(Photo: PacificCoastNews.com)
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