The fan phenomenon It is essential to lift artists to the peak of fame, but also They can turn into real demons when they cross the fine line that separates the public from the private. Some days ago, Harry Styles (30 years old) managed to get a English court will condemn the Brazilian Myra Carvalho (35) for having harassed him in different ways: sent him 8,000 letters In a month declaring his love, he moved to the London neighborhood of Kensington to be closer to him and approached him on several occasions down the street. This motivated the singer to change his habits and the way his security team worked.
They arrested the young woman last February and currently faces a sentence of 14 weeks in prison, 10 years away from the singer already a fine of 156 euros for the damages caused. This is just a small sample of what followers who want, consciously or unconsciously, to appropriate a celebrity can do.
Without going any further, the brand new winner of two Oscars Billie Eilish (22) has suffered on several occasions intrusion into his parents’ home. Without going any further, a fan skipped the pandemic measures when in May 2020 he visited them until on seven occasions. The singer stated that “while we waited for security to arrive, Rousseau stayed on our porch, sat down, and began reading a book while continuing to engage in a periodic monologue. “My father asked him repeatedly to leave, but he refused.” Last year another sneaked in to leave a white flower and a handwritten note where he professed his love. In both cases, both They were sentenced to abide by a restraining order.
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Harry Styles, with some followers in 2017.
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Hollywood doesn’t win for scares. In 2015, Sandra Bullock (59) was resting peacefully in his mansion when an individual named Joshua James Corbett He entered the residence with a gun, a letter professing his love and various magazines where the Oscar winner appeared on the cover. She did not hesitate to hide in her room from where she called the police, who arrived before anything tragic had happened. he condemned five years probation and they imposed a Restraining order for ten years that he could not fulfill because committed suicide in 2018.
While Steven Spielberg (77) was rolling Saving Private Ryan (1998), Jonathan Norman circumvented the strict security regulations of the mansion located in Pacific Palisades with a macabre intention. “He wanted to rape the famous director in front of his wife and children”, he would confess at the trial. To carry out the plan he carried in a bag a box cutter, chloroform, handcuffs, nipple clamps and duct tape. He was sentenced to 25 years. It is unknown what has become of the fan’s life.
Considered one of the most beautiful men in the history of cinema, Brad Pitt (60) is aware of the desire he provokes among women. One of them, Athena Rolando He sneaked into the star’s mansion in the Santa Monica Mountains where he roamed freely, searched her personal belongings and ended up being discovered by a domestic service employee. The young woman lay down on the bed where she was dressed in black pants, a green shirt, a blue cap and tennis shoes belonging to the protagonist of Ocean’s Eleven. The sentence for love was three years of probation and, of course, with the respective restraining order.
Brad Pitt, with his followers in an archive image from 2019.
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A Los Angeles court sentenced Dawnette Knight to three years in prison in 2005 for harassing and threatening by letter and telephone Catherine Zeta-Jones (54). He revealed that the woman was so in love with Michael Douglas (79) -married to the protagonist of Basic instinct (1992) since 2000 – that in one of the letters the actress received threatened with “cut Jones into pieces and feed them to his dog” in order to freely live a romance with Kirk Douglas’s son.
Without a doubt, the most extreme case of all occurs when The fans take their paranoia to the ultimate consequences, causing the death of the idolized subject.. The best known case is that of John Lennon who on December 8, 1980 was with his wife, Yoko Ono (91), at the front door of the Dakota apartment building when Mark David Chapman (68) he murdered him at point blank range. A few hours earlier, the former Beatles member had signed an autograph. The confessed murderer He was sentenced to life imprisonment and has been successively denied parole..
The murder of Selena Quintanilla It was the second tragic incident that has shocked the music world the most fifteen years later. On March 31, 1995, The queen of Tex-Mex was murdered by Yolanda Saldívar (64), which had been the founder and president of her fan club. This fact made it easier for him to access who at that time was killing it in the world. The relationship between the two became so good that Saldívar soon became the right hand of the star and in charge of her fashion firm. When Selena realized that her friend had embezzled funds she fired her. Two weeks later he killed her. The murderer is still in prison.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, in a file image from 2020.
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The fashion world was perplexed when the July 15, 1997 Gianni Versace lost his life on the steps of his Miami mansion. When he returned from buying a coffee, a young man of Filipino-Italian origin named Andrew Cunanan attacked him from behind. shooting him twice. The millionaire designer died instantly. His then partner, Antonio D’Amico, left the residence to try to save him. Eight days after the murder, Cunanan committed suicide. The case acquired great relevance in our country since in New York they arrested Andres Bruguera (57) -firstborn of Andrés Pajares (84)- because of his great resemblance to the murderer.
In our country they have also notable incidents occurred. Two of those that have had the most social impact were the journalist Paco Gonzalez (57) and actress Sara Casasnovas (39). In 2014, the announcer was overwhelmed when a young woman named Lorena professed to him her intention to spend her life with him and, for this, He tried to murder María Teresa on several occasions, the wife González. The hardest moment was when Lorena, in connivance with her boyfriend, cut her with a knife on several occasions. to the woman and the daughter of the media professional inside her car. The disturbed woman was sentenced 20 years in a psychiatric hospital. But things do not end there since several years later it was discovered that Lorena managed to contact several hitmen in order to achieve its goal.
Sara Casasnovas was leaving a performance of a Madrid theater when he met a fan who tried to attack her with a crossbow. Apparently, Arndt M. had been sending her love letters from Germany for a year and a half and, not receiving a response, she traveled by bus to Madrid. The individual was wearing a backpack with 15 cm arrows, a cutter, a can of gasoline, handcuffs and several ropes. The events occurred in June 2009. The following year, Arndt was sentenced to 8 years in prison for attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons.
Candela Peña at the presentation of ‘The Asunta Case’.
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Digital anonymity took its toll on the actress Candela Pena (50) when he asked through his Instagram for the collaboration of the police and citizens to arrest a stalker who sent death threats to her and his son, messages of love and insults. It was eight months of ordeal until the National Police arrested a 22-year-old girl who controlled all the movements of the protagonist of the recently released fiction series. The Asunta case.
Social networks have also been primed with Laura Escanes (28) and Cristina Pedroche (35) that for a long time have not stopped receiving photos and videos of a sexual nature, threats, dishonest propositions and insults. Among the niceties that the presenter has received are those of “pig” or “let’s see if they kidnap you and we don’t see you again.” Paula Echevarria (46) was also the victim of insults through social networks, but in her case the harassment materialized because she showed up several times on the filming set.
