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Alyssa Milano sought a temporary restraining order after a California man hiked for miles to see her.
Paula Abdul was stalked by Paula Goodspeed, who eventually killed herself outside Abdul's home.
Jennifer Garner recently filed a restraining order against a stalker.
Tom Cruise recently obtained a restraining order against a military veteran who repeatedly showed up univited to the star's Beverly Hills home to hand deliver a letter.
Conan O'Brien was stalked by -- of all people -- a priest!
John Lennon's stalker Mark David Chapman ultimately murdered him in front of his home in the famed Dakota apartments in 1980.
Nicole Kidman's stalker Matthew Hooker ran for president and made his own movie. He also apparently moved to San Francisco and cut a woman using broken glass.
Mexican singer Selena was killed by the president of her fan club.
Keanu Reeves's stalker believes she and Keanu are the gods Isis and Osiris and have to save the world together. She also has run for president.
Jodie Foster's stalker John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. is the same dude who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Regan in 1981. Hinckley's obsession with Foster came after watching her play a child prostitute in the film Taxi Driver. He spent his days in a mental hospital until 2005, when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Gwyneth Paltrow's pizza-delivery stalker Dante Michael Soiu once showed up to Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow's home looking for his lady lust ... along with sending a plethora of packages, e-mails and letters to Gwynnie. Now he's in a high security psychiatric hospital in California.
Halle Berry's stalker Greg Broussard, a former Navy Seal, delusionaly believed he and the "Monster's Ball" star were engaged and that her publicists and manager were keeping them from being together. She got a restraining order preventing him from coming within 100 yards of Berry and two of her bodyguards.
Anna Kournikova's stalker William Lepeska skinny-dipped across Biscayne Bay to reach Kournikova's home. He ended up at the wrong pad and wrong pool deck shouting "Anna! Save me!" He was ruled too incompetent to stand trial and spent six months in a Florida treatment facility.
Mel Gibson's stalker was an Idaho drifter who believed God sent him on a mission to pray with the Passion director and once interrupted Gibson's worshipping to get the actor to join him in prayer. That landed him in jail for three years.
Britney Spears' stalker Masahiko Shizawa sent Spears hundreds of letters and then tried to break into her homes in both L.A. and Louisiana. He was sent back to Japan but is now suing Spears saying her bodyguards cause him extreme emotional distress.
Steven Spielberg's stalker Diana Napolis was a county social worker who though Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw were part of a Satanic cult and believed the couple were planning to plant a micro-chip, or as she called it, a "soul-catcher," in her brain to control her.
Colin Farrell's stalker Dessarae Bradford apparently fabricated lawsuits with the actor for more than two years before walking onto the set of "The Tonight Show" to confront the actor during a taping of the show.
Gloria Estefan actually wrote a song about her stalker, Juan Carlos Diaz in the song "Famous." Diaz was an actor who latched onto the Estefan family after appearing in two of Estefan's music videos. Once he received a restraining order, he responded with the claim that Gloria�s husband Emilio sexually molested him. He dropped those charges and finally stayed away.
Pop star Janet Jackson's stalker Robert Gardner harassed her for nine years sending her faxed letters with "disturbing sexual references" before she got a restraining order.
80s pop singer Tiffany's stalker was arrested after trying to bring her a samurai sword and five white chrysanthemums.