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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'jackjordan'

June 7, 2008

Earlier this week, a judge decided that a man found guilty of stalking actress Uma Thurman did not deserve jail time. Instead, Jack Jordan was sentenced to psychiatric counseling and three years probation in Maryland. However, Jordan was spotted in Lower Manhattan yesterday. The Daily News and Post spotted Jordan sitting, per the News, "silently in a lower Manhattan park across the street from the courthouse where he was sentenced." Jordan isn't barred on NYC--he......

Continue Reading "What Probation? Uma Thurman's Stalker Seen in NYC"

June 2, 2008

Jack Jordan, the man convicted of stalking actress Uma Thurman, received a sentence of three years probation today. On May 6th a jury found Jordan guilty of stalking and aggravated harassment. Prosecutors had wanted him to spend a year in jail, but the judge declined to order any jail time, opting for psychiatric counseling for the 37-year-old former mental patient. Jordan had repeatedly tried to meet Thurman, who seemed to be the one “courting” him,......

Continue Reading "Stalk and Walk: Uma’s Disturbed Fan Gets Probation"

May 6, 2008

Photo courtesy AP/Louis Lanzano UPDATE: Jack Jordon was convicted of stalking and aggravated harassment; the jury found him not guilty of two second-degree aggravated harassment charges. Jordan now faces 90 days in jail for the stalking and up to a year behind bars for the aggravated harassment. According to the Times, his lawyer said his client had turned down a plea bargain for time in a mental treatment facility, sticking with his story that his......

Continue Reading "Jury Finds Uma Thurman's Stalker Guilty"

May 3, 2008

Photographs of Jack Jordan and a card he sent Uma Thurman by Louis Lanzano/AP The man accused of stalking actress Uma Thurman took the stand yesterday and admitted, "I imagined incorrectly a relationship with Miss Thurman." But while Jack Jordan, 37, acknowledged he might have been "foolish" in his pursuit of the actress, but also said in his obsession with Thurman said, "It seems almost as if Uma was courting me. We were engaged......

Continue Reading "Uma Thurman's Stalker Wanted "To Amuse Her""

May 2, 2008

For her testimony against stalker Jack Jordan yesterday, The NY Times described Uma's appearance as being "pared-down," as she donned "a gray shawl thrown over black slacks and a black sweater. Her golden hair was carelessly knotted in back, with long strands hanging down both sides of her face. She wore no makeup and looked thin and hollow-eyed." Thurman testified that she was "freaked out" by Jordan's contact with her (and her family), including an......

Continue Reading "Uma Fears for Children; Stalker Takes the Stand"

May 1, 2008

Photograph of Uma Thurman being escorted to Manhattan criminal court by Louis Lanzano/AP Following her parents testimony, Uma Thurman herself showed up at court today to face her stalker. The NY Post reports back that Thurman read excerpts from stalker Jack Jordan's notes to her, as "she pulled a shawl over her shoulders and hunched over as though overcome with a chill." She said Jordan's behavior was distressing, "It wasn't just a red herring......

Continue Reading "Uma Thuman's Day in Court"

April 30, 2008

Yesterday, on the actress's 38th birthday, Uma Thurman's parents headed to court to testify in front of a Manhattan jury about their daughter's stalker. Jack Jordan, an unemployed pool cleaner, was called "delusional" by Robert Thurman (pictured), who Jordan began contacting in 2004; the email that set of the alarms was one received in February 2005, stating, “Today the center of my forehead is ticking now and then. I feel in love with your daughter......

Continue Reading "Uma's Parents Testify in Stalker Case"

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