Hollywood's Most Terrifying Stalkers!
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|June 15, 2020
From break-ins to creepy letters and even murder threats, these have come into contact with some stars horrifying stalkers masking as fans
Hollywood's Most Terrifying Stalkers!

A CRAZED FAN SENT GWYNETH SEX TOYS

At the peak of her acting career, Gwyneth Paltrow had to testify against a terrifying stalker who had followed her around California and sent her disturbing letters and parcels including sex toys.

In May 1999, crazed fan Dante Michael Soiu, now 70, appeared outside Gwyneth’s parents’ LA home. Her mother, actress Blythe Danner, asked him to leave but he returned the following day.

“I thought if I was in the same place as him he would rape me or hurt me,” the Oscar-winning actress, 47, said in court. “He was expressing a lot of anger at my parents for keeping us apart,” she said.

Following the trial in 2000, Soiu, from Columbus, Ohio, was convicted of harassing and stalking, declared insane by the judge and placed in a mental institution.

Then, almost 15 years later, he was acquitted of all charges and found “not guilty by reason of insanity”.

Soiu’s lawyers insisted he was just in need of proper medication and agreed with a jury’s “not guilty” verdict.

OLIVIA FLED FROM A SERIAL KILLER

Aussie entertainment icon Olivia Newton-John is a resilient woman, but when the star was in her 30s, she was forced to flee the US to escape a crazed fan, who was beyond “hopelessly devoted” to her.

This story is from the June 15, 2020 edition of Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.

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