Ivanka Trump Stalker Released After Pleading Guilty

Justin Massler

It's been almost nine months since we last heard from Justin Massler, aka Cloud Starchaser, the man who has been accused of stalking Ivanka Trump in a number of colorful ways. After being captured by bounty hunters while on the lam and brought back to NYC, Massler was found unfit to stand trial, and spent much of the last year in a locked psychiatric ward. Now, he's pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor aggravated harassment charge (and a felony criminal contempt count for violating an order of protection to stay away from the Trumps), and has been set free by the court.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone actually sentenced Massler—who faced up to four years behind bars—to six months in prison and five years’ probation. But since he spent the better part of the last year locked up at Bellevue Hospital, the judge ordered him released. Massler, a diagnosed schizophrenic from Nevada, was curt and apologetic in court yesterday, unlike last May, when he claimed, "The psychiatric system was corrupt. I feel that I was under some supernatural influence and that aliens could have been involved. Is there a doctor who will agree with me?"

Massler had been accused of bombarding Ivanka Trump with dozens of creepy emails, drawings, texts and Twitter messages from 2008 to 2010. When we spoke with him last year while he was on the lam, he told us that the whole "stalker" thing was actually performance art, like "Andy Kaufman or Steven Colbert or some shit." He also mentioned that he was working on a book about the various psych wards he had been to: "I have like a long history of being in different psych wards, but it's all just you know, book research, like Joaquin Phoenix when he flipped out on Dave Letterman, and it turned out to be a documentary."

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By Ben Yakas in News on February 10, 2012 7:15 AM

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ToastNYC

I love this guy.

Michael Dolan

I often take a commuter flight from Newark to Toronto, and I always check myself in and choose a seat at the front of the plane so I can beat the line at customs. A few months back as I was boarding the plane, the flight attendant told me that I wouldn't be able to sit in my regular seat, I would be moved to the rear of the plane. She explained it was a "security issue", not a huge deal. The entire plane was boarded, everyone was in their seats and we were waiting to take off. Then Ivanka Trump comes strolling on the plane, and is seated in the front row, with empty seats all around her. Some "security issue".

"Tim Osman"

Ivanka totally deserves all of that personal space - she is clearly a more valuable person than you, me, or just about any other person on the planet.

I guess the personal jet was in the shop?

whodiditandran

Yes, aliens were certainly involved. Now, get back in your space craft and get out of here already, you loon!

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Ivanka Trump Stalker Released After Pleading Guilty
Pleading guilty to what; poor taste?

Peanut_Butter

Getouttaheeere...she's totally hot.

RobertMosesSupposesErroneously

I know, right? Guy didn't need to be sent to jail - he's had enough punishment just having to spend time in close proximity to the Trumps.