Woman Is Ordered to Avoid Supervisor : Threats: Mental patient allegedly had threatened to kill Antonovich and members of his family.

A judge has ordered a mental patient to stay away from Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, whom she allegedly harassed with death threats and vandalism because of a “long-standing romantic infatuation” with the politician.

Glendale Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Kalin signed a temporary restraining order on July 6, after Antonovich accused Eileen Kristovich of threatening to kill him, his sister and her family.

Kristovich, who was admitted to the psychiatric ward at County-USC Medical Center after the incidents, is accused of making the death threat in a July 3 telephone call to the supervisor’s sister.

Antonovich met Kristovich many years ago when his parents were in business with her parents, court papers said.

The Glendale Republican said in court documents that Kristovich harassed him when he was a state assemblyman in the 1970s, leaving love notes at his Sacramento residence.

The supervisor accused Kristovich of dumping red paint on his car and damaging it with a can opener. Antonovich, who is single, complained that Kristovich followed him on dates, belligerently confronting his female companions.

Antonovich declined to talk Tuesday about the legal action. His spokesman, Dawson Oppenheimer, said the supervisor had characterized his dilemma as a “fatal attraction”--the title of a popular 1987 movie about a woman romantically, and violently, obsessed with a married man.

“Supervisor Antonovich says the less said about this case, the more humane it is for this woman and the better it is for his family,” Oppenheimer said.

Kristovich, reached at the medical center, also declined to comment.