Celebrities with stalkers
On June 8, police say Joshua Corbett entered actress Sandra Bullock’s home. She called 911 and police said they found photos of the actress in Corbett’s pockets, a letter portraying himself as her husband and a concealed weapons permit from Utah. (John Shearer / Associated Press)
In June, Che Thomas Cruz pleaded no contest to a stalking charge after breaking into singer Selena Gomez’s guest house on her Calabasas property. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
In 2011, Richard Anthony Franco was accused of stalking Halle Berry at her home. “All of a sudden I sensed someone behind me and turned to see the same intruder standing less than a foot behind me, staring at me through the glass kitchen door,” Berry said in a court filing. (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)
Robert M. O’Ryan of Florida was convicted in 2010 for stalking Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson. Authorities said he traveled across the country and scaled a fence where Johnson was filming “Dancing With the Stars.” (Jason DeCrow / Associated Press)
In 2013, John M. Dubis allegedly spent six days in the pool house of Jennifer Lopez’s Hamptons estate. When discovered, he reportedly told police he was Lopez’s baby daddy. (Mike Coppola / Getty Images)
Robert Dewey Hoskins in 1995 made repeated forays onto Madonna’s property and threatened to kill the pop star, her bodyguard and an assistant. He was convicted in 1996. He was shot twice in the arm by one of Madonna’s bodyguards after he’d scaled a wall to get onto her property. (Jon Furniss / Associated Press)
