As Taylor Swift Deals With a Deranged New York Stalker, Here Are Times Celebrity Stalking Turned into an Absolute Nightmare

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By Patrick Reilly

A deranged man has been arrested repeatedly for standing outside Taylor Swift’s Manhattan home, but was released shortly after because his actions were non-violent.

David Crowe, 33, could be seen rummaging through a dumpster at the pop star’s home on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after being accused of stalking and harassment.

Here are five cases where celebrity harassment turned into a nightmare:

John Lennon

Beatles legend John Lennon was murdered by maniac Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Hotel on the Upper West Side.

Chapman had been a big fan of the Beatles, but became upset with Lennon’s offhand comment that the supergroup was “more popular than Jesus” and Lennon’s lavish lifestyle living in New York City.

Chapman waited outside the hotel for Lennon, who signed an album for him.

He shot Lennon, 40, before opening a copy of JD Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” as he calmly waited for police to arrive.

Rebecca Schaeffer

Actress and model Rebecca Schaeffer was tragically shot to death by stalker Robert Bardo after opening the front door of her Los Angeles apartment in 1989, when she was just 21 years old.

Bardo, an obsessed fan, had paid a private investigator to locate her address through vehicle records.

Bardo remains in prison, serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder.

Schaeffer’s shocking death led to the passage of the first anti-harassment law, California Penal Code 646.9, in 1990, which made it a crime to “intentionally and maliciously harass another person and make a credible threat with the intent to endanger that person in a reasonable situation.” Fear for his safety.”

New York State currently has several similar criminal laws.

California also restricted access to driving records and the creation of an LAPD task force working with prosecutors, celebrity lawyers and security to keep fans away from the stars after Schaeffer’s death, the AP reported.

Teresa Saldana

“Raging Bull” actress Theresa Saldana was accosted by a crazed stalker outside her West Hollywood apartment in 1982.

The stranger asked her if she was the famous actress she seemed to be. When she said yes, violent superfan Arthur Jackson stabbed her several times with a hunting knife.

Saldana survived when a delivery truck driver fought off his attacker and restrained him until police arrived. according to the New York Times. She spent three months recovering in hospital after the attack.

Jackson had written in his diary that he had a “divine mission” to take Saldana “to eternity.”

Christina Grimmie

“Voice” singer and YouTube star Christina Grimmie, 22, was murdered by an obsessed fan while signing autographs at a post-concert event in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.

Grimmie’s killer, Kevin Loibl, was in love with the singer and believed the couple would marry. He became enraged when shown photographs of Grimmie with another man.

Loibl underwent a series of dramatic cosmetic surgeries to appear more attractive to the singer before the murder.

Virgin

Madonna’s security guards shot her stalker, Robert Dewey Hoskins, after he jumped the fence of her Hollywood Hills property in 1995.

Hoskins had previously told the singer’s assistants that he would marry Madonna or slit her throat from ear to ear. Fortunately, the “Material Girl” singer was in Miami at the time.

He served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking and threatening Madonna following a 1996 conviction.