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Zeta-Jones recounts stalker terror
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Man there are some real wackos out there.
Zeta-Jones recounts stalker terror
Thursday, July 29, 2004 Posted: 2:29 AM EDT (0629 GMT)
Knight sent Zeta-Jones a letter of apology asking for forgiveness.
LOS ANGELESm California (Reuters) -- Catherine Zeta-Jones has recounted her terror at the hands of a stalker who threatened to "slice her up like meat on a bone" in a crime that would make "entertainment history."
Struggling to maintain her composure while testifying at a preliminary hearing, the Oscar-winning actress recalled how at one point she feared having a heart attack or a stroke because of the death threats contained in letters and telephone calls.
Zeta-Jones, 35, said she was "shocked at the violent, horrific, satanic desire that someone would want to do that to me. A total stranger."
"I have never had a death threat in my life and this will affect me for the rest of my life," she told the court.
Dawnette Knight, 32, is charged with 25 counts of stalking Zeta-Jones with threatening phone calls and letters between January 2003 and May 2004. The preliminary hearing will determine whether there is sufficient evidence for a trial.
Knight, described by her lawyer as having a "girlish crush" on Zeta-Jones's husband Michael Douglas, accused the actress in her letters of being a gold-digger, a whore and a bitch.
None of the letters were sent to Zeta-Jones but were addressed instead to her 87-year-old father-in-law Kirk Douglas, family friends and TV networks.
They accused the actress of having an affair with actor George Clooney, of marrying Douglas for his money, and showed detailed knowledge of Zeta-Jones' complex travels between homes in Bermuda, Spain, Las Vegas and Los Angeles and to movie and commercial shoots.
Much of the graphic nature of the threats was kept from the actress as she tried to carry on with her career. But she was required to read portions of the letters in court on Wednesday, often choking up at their chilling nature.
"The bitch will be shredded to pieces like Sharon Tate was. This is going to be entertainment history," said one, referring to the actress murdered by the Manson gang.
"See ya at the funeral," said another.
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