A deranged man has been repeatedly arrested for lingering outside Taylor Swift's Manhattan home, but was quickly released because his actions were not violent.
David Crowe, 33, was seen rummaging through a trash can at the pop star's home on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after being charged with stalking and harassment.
Here are five cases where celebrity stalking turned into a nightmare.
John Lennon
Beatles legend John Lennon was famously murdered by madman Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Hotel on the Upper West Side.
Chapman was a huge Beatles fan, but was offended by Lennon's offhand comment that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” and Lennon's lavish lifestyle in New York City.
Chapman was waiting for Lennon outside the hotel, and Lennon signed the album for him.
He infamously opened a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye as he calmly waited for police to arrive after shooting 40-year-old John Lennon.
rebecca schafer
Actress and model Rebecca Shaffer was tragically shot to death by stalker Robert Bardot in 1989, when she was just 21 years old, after he left her at the door of her Los Angeles apartment.
An avid fan, Baldo paid a private investigator to find his address from his car records.
Bardo remains in prison, serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murder.
Mr. Schaefer's shocking death led to the passage of the first anti-stalking law in 1990, California Penal Code 646.9, which states, “Intentionally and maliciously harassing another person with the intent to place that person in an unreasonable position.'' The law makes it a crime for a person to “make a credible threat.” I'm worried about my safety. ”
New York State currently has several similar criminal laws in place.
California also restricted access to Schaefer's driving records and set up a Los Angeles Police Department task force to work with prosecutors, celebrity lawyers and security guards to keep fans away from the star after his death, AP said. The news agency reported.
Teresa Saldana
“Raging Bull” actress Teresa Saldana was approached by a deranged stalker outside her West Hollywood apartment in 1982.
The stranger asked her if she was the famous actress she seemed. When she answered her “yes,” her violent superfan, Arthur Jackson, stabbed her multiple times with his hunting knife.
Saldana survived after the delivery truck driver fought off his attacker and held him down until police arrived. According to the New York Times. She spent three months recovering in the hospital after the attack.
Jackson wrote in her diary that she had a “divine mission” to guide Saldana “for eternity.”
Christina Grimmie
“The Voice” singer and YouTube star Christina Grimmie, 22, was killed by an enthusiastic fan in 2016 while signing autographs at a post-concert event in Orlando, Florida.
Grimmie's killer, Kevin Loibl, was infatuated with Grimmie and believed that the two would marry. When Grimmie was shown a photo of him with another man, he became furious.
Before her murder, Loibl underwent a series of dramatic cosmetic surgeries to look more attractive.
Madonna
In 1995, Madonna's stalker Robert Dewey Hoskins was shot and killed by a security guard after he jumped the fence of her Hollywood Hills mansion.
Hoskins previously told the singer's assistant that he would either marry Madonna or slit her throat from ear to ear. Luckily, the “Material Girl” singer was in Miami at the time.
He served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking and threatening Madonna following his 1996 conviction.
