This one should be used for public service announcements in France.
Posted on 07/09/2005 3:38:35 PM PDT by Brilliant
Catherine Zeta-Jones' stalker is neither famous nor infamous, the Oscar-winning star hissed Friday.
"You are just a criminal."
Zeta-Jones' comments were read aloud at the Los Angeles sentencing of Dawnette Knight.
The 33-year-old Beverly Hills woman pleaded no contest Feb. 25 to stalking Zeta-Jones and threatening to cut the actress' throat, shoot her in the head and "slice her up like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs"--allegedly all in the name of what was termed a "girlish crush" on Zeta-Jones' husband, fellow actor Michael Douglas.
Knight was hit with a three-year prison sentence, $200 restitution fine and ordered to abide by a restraining order that calls for her to stay away from Zeta-Jones for 10 years, Jane Robison of the L.A. County District Attorney's Office said.
Held without bail since her June 3, 2004, arrest, Knight will receive credit for time served and good behavior. All told, the woman probably will serve less than one year behind bars, Robison said.
Zeta-Jones, who testified at last summer's preliminary hearing, was not in court Friday, but the Chicago star still made her antipathy heard. According to reports, prosecutor Debra Archuleta read from a letter by Zeta-Jones--a letter that both addressed the court and the stalker.
"This person," Zeta-Jones wrote of Knight, "was very articulate in how she was going to kill me...She was going to 'blow my brains out like JFK.' She was going to cut my throat the way 'O.J. did to Nicole Simpson.' She was going to slice me up 'like [Charles] Manson did to Sharon Tate.' "
Zeta-Jones' statement referenced letters she said Knight mailed to her and her family, including the one where Knight purportedly threatened to "slice her up like meat."
To Knight, Zeta-Jones had choice words, one of which was "evil."
"You have profoundly affected me in how I conduct my life," the Zeta-Jones statement said. "Your actions will be with me the rest of my life--how I will be constantly observing, looking over my shoulder."
For her part, the wire service reported, Knight said she hoped Zeta-Jones--"the victim"--would someday forgive her. "I am sorry," she said.
Knight, who attempted suicide in her jail cell a month after her arrest, was found competent to stand trial in September 2004.
Last seen onscreen in Ocean's Twelve--a production Knight allegedly tried to crash--Zeta-Jones will be back in theaters with The Legend of Zorro, opening Oct. 28.
U MADE MY DAY
but my wife is still hotter
Or have a "girlish crush" on Michael Douglas!
I must be psychic (there is big money in that, isn't there?!) I (correctly as it turns out) guessed Dawnette's cultural background as soon as I saw her name. Send your $9.95 fee to...
This one should be used for public service announcements in France.
I wonder how the left would feel about gun control if the conservatives banned private armies and security firms. No more bodyguards and no more security teams.
Fat teddy kennedy wouldn't be surrounded by guards with Uzies if he doesn't want a shopkeeper to have a revolver.
Wow in the movie the stalker died......
Michael Douglas isn't worth jail imho.
I would never have let the stalker know she had frightned me or made me change my life because of what she did, NEVER! I am sure I would be frightned but the stalker wouldn't know, I would never give her the satisfaction of knowing.
I suspect she was trying to influence the judge. Obviously did not work.
This stalker will be out in 7 months, having completed her book deal, will now be working on the movie.
Yeah, the nerve of her, huh? (As I organize my Zeta-Jones pictures and type up a ransom note)
Oh, pissant....
She's not going to be ignored.
Good, Catherine. Now buy a pistol and become a pro-R2KBA, conservative.
Forget it, she's on a roll.
NICE!
........ and she plays a heck of a game of golf!
Oh yeah, I can see Michael Douglas going for Ms. Knight after Zeta-Jones.
Yeah...
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