By Wonderwall.com Editors
4:24am PDT, May 7, 2025
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According to
TMZ, the LAPD is investigating a man who busted through the gate at
Jennifer Aniston's Los Angeles mansion on Monday, May 5, 2025, as a potential stalking situation. The
Friends alum was home when the 70-year-old man — who referred to her as his "bride" in an October 2024 Facebook post — drove his car through the front gate at her $21M Bel Air estate just after noon. A security guard quickly apprehended the man, who reportedly has a minor criminal history, pulled him from his car and held him at gunpoint until LAPD officers arrived on the scene. The man, who did not interact directly with Aniston, was taken to a nearby hospital after he complained he hurt his back when he crashed his vehicle onto her property. He was then arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism and held at an L.A. County jail without bail. Aniston is said to be "
traumatized" by the incident.
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A knife-wielding man tried to break into
Taylor Swift's Beverly Hills home in April 2018. The man was arrested outside the mansion with a rope, a knife and live ammunition in his possession. Police also found prescription medications and psychologist paperwork in his car. Swift was granted a
five-year restraining order against him a few months later.
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Beyonce had quite an unnerving experience when she was stalked by a British man in 2009. He believed the superstar singer had died and been replaced by an imposter and began sending her threatening letters. He even went so far as to try to hand her a handwritten book of religious ramblings at a London event! She was eventually granted an anti-harassment order against the delusional man in March 2011.
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Britney Spears has had more than her fair share of scary encounters but her stalking experience with a man from Japan takes the cake. The fan-turned-stalker claimed he was madly in love with the pop singer in 2003 and began sending her numerous love letters and photos of himself — including one that read "I'm chasing you." She was granted a restraining order but he still traveled to America and attempted to break into her Los Angeles home. After being apprehended by Spears' security guards, the man tried to sue the pop icon for emotional distress! The two eventually reached an out-of-court settlement and the case was dismissed.
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Sandra Bullock came face-to-face with a male stalker in the hallway outside her bedroom in June 2014. The beloved actress was able to lock the door and call 911 and the man was, thankfully, arrested at her home. According to TMZ, he was carrying a notebook with cut-out magazine photos of Sandra and several handwritten notes including one that read, "I will forever be thinking of you and Loui[s], my son, as you are my wife by law, the law of God and you belong to me and me to you." Scary! The man ultimately took his own life following a standoff with police in 2018.
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In April 2013, a California woman determined to marry
Hugh Jackman confronted him at his New York gym, where she attempted to shave his face with an electric razor. "I hated him having those whiskers," she reportedly told police when she was arrested. It wasn't the first time the woman, who relocated from California to New York to be closer to the Oscar nominee, came dangerously close to the actor and his family: According to the Daily News, she confronted Hugh's then-wife,
Deborra-lee Furness, outside the school where their daughter was enrolled in March 2013.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones feared for her life when a crazed woman began stalking her husband,
Michael Douglas, in 2004. The woman became obsessed with the
Wall Street actor and started sending letters to the
Chicago star threatening to cut her into pieces and feed her to her dogs if she didn't leave him! They eventually sought legal action and the woman was sentenced to three years in prison.
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According to DailyMail.com, an uninvited female stalker visited Jeff Goldblum's home more than 50 times in 2007. The woman allegedly began stalking the Jurassic Park actor in 2001 and would sometimes park her car across his driveway to block him from leaving his home.
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In early 2012, a man was arrested after he was discovered living in an unoccupied condo owned by
Mila Kunis. According to
Entertainment Tonight, he was arrested a second time just a few months later when he confronted the actress in a parking lot after following her to her Los Angeles gym on three consecutive days.
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In July 2012, a man was arrested outside
Halle Berry's home in Hollywood after she spotted him trespassing on her property three times in as many days. At the time of his arrest, the stalker was in possession of a key to the Oscar winner's guest house, which he reportedly obtained during an earlier break-in.
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In September 2014, Keanu Reeves woke in the middle of the night to find a female stalker hanging out in his home library. The star of the Matrix franchise approached the woman, who said she was there to meet him, before he called the police, who took her into custody.
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It took six days in August 2013 for
Jennifer Lopez's security team to discover that a stalker had been living in the pool house on her estate in East Hampton, New York. According to DailyMail.com, the man took to Facebook to share photos of himself on the property along with rants about being married to the superstar. When he was finally arrested, the man allegedly told police that he was her ex-husband and the father of her children.
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In June 2010, a stalker broke into
Madonna's townhome in Yorkshire, England, and tried on clothes belonging to her ex-husband,
Guy Ritchie. According to Us Weekly, the man broke into her home again the following year. A neighbor spotted the man, who was reportedly carrying a map of
Madonna's home at the time of his arrest, and contacted the police. Fortunately, the singer and her family were in the United States at the time of the incident.
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In August 2014,
Shia LaBeouf called the cops on a woman who showed up to his home uninvited on at least three occasions. According to Page Six, the stalker threatened, "I am going to blow up your house! I am going to blow up the world! You are Albert Einstein and we belong together."
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Blake Lively's stalker showed up on the set of
Gossip Girl in 2012 and claimed they had a "metaphysical connection." After he was removed from the premises, he started harassing her mother,
Elaine Lively. They were eventually granted restraining orders against him.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's stalker has harassed her on not one but two different continents. Back in 2012, he gained access to her London home by claiming that they had a business meeting. He tried to sneak into her London home again in 2013 but was denied access. Then in April 2014, he used the same technique to attempt to talk his way into her Los Angeles home.
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In June 2014, a man was founding sleeping in Sanaa Lathan's home. According to TMZ, when police arrived to arrest him, he told them that he was the Love & Basketball star's husband.
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In April 2013, a woman broke into Clay Aiken's gated community in North Carolina and hopped a fence surrounding his home. According to TMZ, neighbors spotted the woman peeking through the American Idol alum's windows and called the police. The Seattle-based stalker — who claimed she'd been catfished and that she'd been in communication with someone pretending to be the singer for years — had attempted to gain access to Aiken's N.C. home once before.
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A male stalker managed to break into
Gigi Hadid's New York City apartment on June 29, 2015. According to Gossip Cop, the man was arrested and charged with one count of stalking, but it wasn't enough to make the model feel safe: She soon listed the apartment and sold it for $2.3 million in early 2016.
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A man stalked
Anderson Cooper for nearly six years between 2007 and 2013. The stalker made unsolicited calls to the newsman and showed up at his home and place of work on several occasions. According to DailyMail.com, he even tried to kick in Cooper's front door during one incident.
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Rihanna has suffered various stalking episodes over the years, but perhaps the scariest occurred in July 2014 when, according to Gossip Cop, a man experiencing homlessness was arrested after he left handwritten notes outside her New York City apartment. He also reportedly sent the scary messages including threats and derogatory statements to her California home. The man was ultimately caught after he accidentally left his benefits card behind at her home. He was charged with stalking, menacing and harassment.
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In February 2015, a man was arrested for following Miranda Cosgrove to Disneyland. Sadly, it wasn't the first time he'd trailed her to the theme park. According to Gossip Cop, the iCarly actress was forced to get a restraining order against her stalker in September 2014 after he followed her to Disney and to her classes on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles.
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In September 2013, a woman was arrested after she attempted to sneak into
John Cusack's estate in Malibu. According to TMZ, the actor's security team caught the stalker scaling a fence onto his property after she failed to make it through a window. They detained her until police arrived. Fortunately, Cusack was not home at the time of the incident.
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In 2013, a man was sentenced to jail for stalking
Ashley Tisdale. According to E! News, he showed up at the actress' home and attempted to gain access by pretending to be a deliveryman. The scary stalker also tweeted about being her boyfriend and sent her threatening messages on Twitter.
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A man experiencing homelessness was arrested in June 2014 after he wielded a knife and threatened to kill Michael Strahan while attempting to break onto the Good Morning America set at ABC's Times Square studio in New York City.
