Taylor Swift has gained a brief restraining order towards an alleged stalker who the pop famous person claims confirmed up at her Los Angeles house quite a few occasions over the previous 12 months to falsely declare she’s the mom of his baby.
The order requires Brian Jason Wagner, a 45-year-old Colorado man, to remain no less than 100 yards away from Swift and her residence. Decide Debra R. Archuleta signed the directive on Monday (June 9), three days after Swift petitioned the courtroom for assist.
Within the restraining order request filed Friday (June 6), Swift mentioned Wagner is a stalker who first confirmed up at her Los Angeles residence in July 2024. Wagner allegedly returned a number of occasions that month, at one level “carrying a glass bottle that would have been used as a weapon.”
“Throughout every of those visits, I’m knowledgeable that Mr. Wagner made varied statements about residing at my property (not true), being in a relationship with me (not true), believing I’m the mom of his son (not true), and needing to see me in particular person, all of that are unfaithful and disconnected from actuality,” wrote Swift.
Swift mentioned Wagner returned to the home once more twice this previous Might, prompting her safety staff to run a background report. At this level, Swift’s workers found that Wagner had a felony report and had despatched “prolonged communications” from jail discussing a nonexistent romantic relationship with the singer.
In keeping with the restraining order request, Swift’s staff additionally found that Wagner had tried to steal her mail and illegally obtained a California driver’s license that listed her Los Angeles handle as his personal.
“I don’t share publicly the place I reside and have by no means shared my handle or the placement of my Los Angeles residence with Mr. Wagner,” wrote Swift within the submitting. “Subsequently, the truth that Mr. Wagner has decided the place I reside and visited the property a number of occasions, refusing to go away and claiming to wish entry, makes me concern for my security and the security of my household. The truth that each of those latest visits and Mr. Wagner’s inappropriate and threatening communications to my workers about me have escalated in latest weeks creates a concern of imminent hurt.”
The short-term restraining order is about to run out on June 30, when Decide Archuleta will maintain a listening to to find out whether or not a extra everlasting restraining order ought to be put in place.
Swift’s reps didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon Monday. Wagner couldn’t be reached for remark.
That is simply the scholarly studies in a string of disturbing incidents which have landed Swift’s alleged stalkers in authorized hassle over the previous few years. Florida man Roger Alvarado was sentenced to six months in jail in 2019 for breaking into Swift’s New York house and taking a nap in her mattress, and Texas resident Eric Swarbrick was sentenced to two and a half years in federal jail in 2020 for sending violent and threatening letters to her former label, Massive Machine Data.
In January 2024, a person named David Crowe was charged with stalking after exhibiting up outdoors Swift’s New York house dozens of occasions in just some months. The fees had been in the end dropped, as Crowe was declared mentally unfit for trial and transferred to a psychological well being facility.