Taylor Swift has been granted a five-year restraining order towards an alleged stalker.
Based on courtroom paperwork obtained by The Instances, the 35-year-old singer gained the order on Monday. She had initially filed a declaration in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket on June 6, and was subsequently granted a short lived order three days later.
The person, Brian Jason Wagner, is alleged to have tried to enter her Los Angeles dwelling on three events in July 2024, the Reduce stories. In a single incident, Wagner allegedly wielded “a glass bottle that might have been used as a weapon.”
He allegedly instructed Swift a sequence of “unfaithful” statements “disconnected from actuality,” together with the claims that he lived on her property, that they have been in a relationship collectively, and that she was the mom of his little one.
The declaration additionally alleged that Wagner had appeared at her dwelling on Might 21 and 22. He claimed to have been “checking on a pal.”
Swift’s safety staff reportedly generated a criminal-history report on Wagner, which revealed he was beforehand incarcerated and, throughout this time, wrote quite a few letters to Swift describing an “infatuation” along with her and the “romantic relationship” that they had.
He additionally allegedly tried to redirect mail from her dwelling and efficiently modified his driver’s license tackle to hers with the Division of Motor Autos. Alex Welch, a safety staffer for Swift, grew to become conscious of this when stated driver’s license was mailed to the star’s residence, USA At present stories.
Based on the order issued Monday, Wagner should avoid all of Swift’s houses, autos and workplaces, and will not contact her in any approach. Moreover, it prevents him from proudly owning firearms or physique armor.
Court docket paperwork say that Wagner is from Colorado and didn’t seem at Monday’s listening to.
This isn’t the primary time Swift has needed to search a restraining order towards a person. In 2014, she sought out an injunction towards a person who had allegedly been issuing threats to her and her household.
Timothy Candy was alleged to have maintained that he was married to Swift, and declared he would “kill any man who will get in the way in which” of his perceived relationship along with her. Based on courtroom paperwork, he additionally allegedly visited her houses in Nashville and Beverly Hills.
“Mr. Candy’s course of conduct, together with threats to hurt my household, are significantly alarming and harassing and are extraordinarily distressing to me and my household,” she wrote in a declaration, filed on Mar. 3, 2014.
In one other incident, a 38-year-old man named Daniel Cole had a no-contact order issued towards him after visiting Swift’s Rhode Island trip dwelling. A decide claimed he had ignored warnings, and Cole was launched on his personal recognizance.
