A former psychiatric patient convicted of stalking Uma Thurman was jailed on Friday after he was charged with again trying to contact the Oscar-nominated actress.
Jack Jordan was arraigned on charges of stalking and criminal contempt for violating a restraining order. Jordan pleaded not guilty in front of the same judge who warned the 39-year-old he would go to jail if he tried to contact Thurman after his 2008 conviction for stalking the Kill Bill actress.
Prosecutors said he made several calls to Thurman on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. He was arrested last month, shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday, at his family’s home in North Potomac, Maryland. A police spokeswoman with the suburban Washington DC department said officers sent to arrest Jordan found him sitting in front of a computer with Thurman’s name in a Google search box.
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Jordan was extradited to New York on Thursday. He told police, according to prosecutors, that the calls were a drunken mistake.
Michelle Kaminsky, Brooklyn assistant district attorney, did not say how Jordan got Thurman’s number but said he may have been in Manhattan when one of the calls was placed.
“During one of the phone calls to a house guest, the defendant got very agitated and asked the house guest to step outside,” Kaminsky said.
Jordan was being held without bail until his next court date, scheduled for Wednesday. His attorney had argued for protective custody because he said he could be attacked at Rikers Island, but Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro denied the request.
The former psychiatric patient was convicted of stalking and harassing the actress from 2005 to 2007. He was sentenced in 2008 to three years’ probation and told not to try to contact Thurman for five years.
Thurman told jurors at his trial that she was “completely freaked out” by his behavior. He sent bizarre letters and cards — featuring such ominous images as a picture of a bride with her head torn off and unsettling messages like “my hands should be on your body at all times” — called her family and employees, tried to get into her trailer on a movie set and showed up at her Manhattan home late at night, according to testimony.
Jordan testified that he’d developed a crush on Thurman in high school after seeing her in the 1988 movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. He was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in late 2005 after being questioned about his obsession with Thurman, he said.
It ain’t easy being famous. If it’s not stalkers then it’s the “star-whackers.”
The 47-year-old wife of Randy Quaid, Evi, failed to appear for a probation hearing on Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, and faces a new US$100,000 arrest warrant, Deputy District Attorney Anthony Davis said.
At the hearing, Evi Quaid’s attorney, Robert Sanger, withdrew from the case. He declined to comment on Friday in an e-mail.
Randy and Evi Quaid are wanted in the coastal city for a felony vandalism case in which they’re accused of causing more than US$5,000 damage to the guest house of a home they once owned. Neither has shown up for any court hearings since a criminal case was filed in October and have already forfeited US$1 million in bail.
They remain in Canada, where they are seeking asylum from a group they have dubbed the “Hollywood star-whackers.”
Randy Quaid faces immigration hearings there to determine whether he should be allowed to remain in Canada and whether he should be granted refugee status. His next hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
Evi Quaid, who is on probation for a misdemeanor defrauding an innkeeper case in Santa Barbara, has indicated she doesn’t want to leave her husband to deal with the California case.
Even when celebs manage to avoid the stalkers and star-whackers, Johnny Law gets them.
Troubled rapper DMX was sentenced to one year in prison by an Arizona judge on Thursday after admitting he violated his probation by drinking alcohol, court officials said.
The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was on probation for attempted aggravated assault and using a fake name to avoid paying a US$7,500 hospital bill.
Arizona Superior Court Commissioner Christine Mulleneaux said DMX would receive credit for 113 days already served in prison while he awaiting trial.
The rapper, whose albums include It’s Dark and Hell is Hot, turned 40 on Saturday. He has a long history of legal problems in Arizona that include drug, theft and animal abuse charges.
Hulk Hogan has a different kind of ball and chain: The celebrity wrestler recently tied the knot for a second time.
His attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Hulkster and Jennifer McDaniel had been married at Hogan’s Clearwater Beach home on Tuesday during a small, private ceremony.
Hogan’s children from his previous marriage, Brooke and Nick, were both in attendance.
Attorney David Houston says the couple wanted to keep the ceremony as quiet as possible after filing for a marriage license in Pinellas County last month. Houston says the couple has no immediate honeymoon plans.
Hogan’s real name is Terry Bollea.
Planet Pop was seeing double last week: Thurman’s creepy stalker and his second conviction, another warrant for Evi Quaid, Hogan’s second marriage … and even news that singer Mariah Carey is going to be a mom twice over.
Nick Cannon announced on his radio show on Thursday that his wife is expecting twins.
Said Cannon on New York’s 92.3 station: “I haven’t even told my wife I’m doing this so I’m probably gonna get yelled at for not getting permission ... We are having twins!”
Carey’s publicist Cindi Berger confirmed the news.
Cannon said two VIPs did get the scoop: President Barack Obama and wife Michelle. Carey told the first couple during a taping of a Christmas in Washington show.
Cannon added: “Both babies are healthy, in tiptop shape.” Carey, 40, and Cannon, 30, have been the subject of a baby watch since they got married after a whirlwind romance two years ago.
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