Alleged Uma Stalker in Custody
As evidenced by her samurai-sword-wielding turn in Kill Bill, Uma Thurman doesn't seem like the type of person you'd want to harass.
But regardless of her kung fu prowess, a California man has been accused of stalking the Oscar-nominated actress for the past two years, during which time he's said to have repeatedly threatened to harm himself.
Jack Jordan, a 35-year-old former psychiatric patient, was indicted by a New York grand jury Thursday after being charged last week with attempted coercion, aggravated harassment and stalking. The indictment hasn't officially been filed yet, so it's unclear whether the same charges still apply.
Jordan was arrested Friday outside Thurman's Greenwich Village home, allegedly not the first time he got a little too close for comfort to the divorced mother of two.
Bail has been set at $10,000, and Criminal Court Judge Evelyn Laporte issued an order of protection for Thurman and her family in case Jordan is released.
His attorney ordered a suicide watch, medical treatment and administrative segregation for him while he's in custody.
The felony complaint filed by Detective Edward Yzaguirre states that Jordan popped into Thurman's life on Nov. 8, 2005, when, claiming to be a friend of hers, he tried to get into her trailer on a Manhattan movie set.
A security guard ordered him to leave, but not before Jordan tried to give crew members a sheaf of letters and drawings he had made for the Pulp Fiction star, including a cartoon depicting Thurman digging a grave for him and another of him walking on the sharp edge of a razor blade.
The following day, Jordan's family had him involuntarily committed to a hospital for mental health treatment, according to the complaint.
After his release, Jordan sent numerous emails to Thurman and other members of her family during August and September of 2006, Yzaguirre wrote. Then, in August, Jordan started showing up once or twice a day, three or four times a week, at her NYC residence. He would fruitlessly ask to see her and on at least two occasions he left her letters.
Per the complaint, one of the letters contained this sentiment: "I feel afraid that if I see you out again with another man, I will want to kill myself, maybe even after we meet."
Other alarming behavior listed in court documents includes sleeping in his car while parked on Thurman's street, and writing to her that he has "been in love with [her] for many years" and feels as if they "are fated to be together."
A source told Access Hollywood that Jordan first made a connection with the family by emailing questions about Buddhism to Thurman's father, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University.
Robert Thurman stopped replying when Jordan started asking questions about his daughter.
Thurman, whose last big-screen showing was My Super Ex-Girlfriend, recently finished shooting the romantic comedy The Accidental Husband, due out in March, and the feature adaptation of playwright David Hare's My Zinc Bed.





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