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Another Celeb Helps Save Life

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:30:34 CDT

Yet another celebrity joins the hero ranks: Mila Kunis may have saved a man's life Saturday, sources tell TMZ . When a 50-year-old man who works in her home collapsed and started having a seizure, Kunis dashed over and turned his head to the side to make sure he didn’t choke....

Alec Baldwin and 7 Other Stalked Celebs

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:50:51 CDT

Alec Baldwin met Canadian actress Genevieve Sabourin back in 2002 while filming The Adventures of Pluto Nash , on which she was working as a publicist, and apparently he made such an impression on her that she's been stalking him ever since. Sabourin, 40, was arrested yesterday at Baldwin's New York...

Police Catch Escaped Madonna Stalker

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:07:29 CST

The man who was convicted of stalking Madonna and threatening to slit her throat in the 1990s was apprehended today, after escaping a week ago from the Los Angeles mental health facility where he's been held since last year. Police told the AP that Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, was taken...

Woman Called Ex 1,001 Times in 3 Months: Cops

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:23:37 CDT

Talk about the break-up from hell: After leather artist Peter Main, 62, parted ways with Toni Jo Silvey, 49, in 2009, she allegedly broke two of his windows with a tire iron and a third with a sword , rammed his parked car with hers and sent it through the garage...

Facebook App Creates 'Stalker' Who Slices You Up

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:04:00 CDT

Leave it to the Germans to come up with something fun. A new Facebook app by Notruf Deutschland creates a personalized video of three teen girl "stalkers" gushing about you . Thanks to personal details and photos you've plugged in, the three giggle over their computers about your astrological sign, and...

Zynga CEO's Stalker Also Snuck Into Google

Mark Russell — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:58:05 CDT

The story just gets weirder. First, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus got a restraining order against amateur filmmaker/former Russian stripper Vera Svechina, who was reportedly stalking him. Now comes the news that Svechina also gained access to the inner offices of Google in March, leaving behind a Russian-language book and an...

FarmVille CEO Gets Restraining Order on Stalker

John Johnson — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:03:08 CDT

Another scary story under the category of tech entreprenuer stalkers : Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, head of the company that unleashed FarmVille and its offshoots on the world, had to get a restraining order last month against a female stalker, reports Business Insider . A judge agreed that Vera Svechina, described as...

7 Signs Your 'Friend' Is a Facebook Stalker

Kate Schwartz — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:48:05 CDT

You know the signs of Facebook addiction and Facebook depression . Today's lesson: Facebook stalking. Specifically, how to tell if one of your so-called friends is, gasp!, actually stalking you. AllFacebook runs down the seven tell-tale signs: They occupy the No. 1 slot: AllFacebook calls this one a "dead giveaway." Go...

Stalker Caught in Madonna's Mansion

Kevin Spak — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:38:40 CDT

London police have arrested a man they say broke into Madonna’s mansion while the Material Girl was in the US for her grandmother’s funeral. The pop star’s pad is protected with a state-of-the-art security system, but Grzegorz Matlok allegedly broke in this weekend by simply smashing a window, the New...