Photo Credit: Sabrina Carpenter’s Ring cam footage (NBC News)
An LA County court has granted Sabrina Carpenter a temporary restraining order against a man she said has been stalking her and tried to enter her home.
On Monday, a Los Angeles County court granted pop princess Sabrina Carpenter a temporary restraining order against a man she alleges has been stalking her and tried to enter her Hollywood Hills home. The court prohibited 31-year-old William Applegate from being within 100 yards of Carpenter, her sister and creative director Sarah Carpenter, and Sarah’s partner, who also live in the home.
Carpenter filed a request in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday, with evidence that Applegate approached the singer’s front door and tried to forcibly open it on May 23. This was an escalation of alleged stalking behavior that began, to Carpenter’s knowledge, in April.
When a security guard confronted him, Applegate allegedly struck the guard, according to a declaration by a Los Angeles police detective in support of Carpenter’s restraining order. Court documents reveal that Carpenter’s security guard had told Applegate to leave, but he refused and was adamant that he knew Carpenter and that she was expecting him. The documents called these claims “outrageous and entirely false.”
“His delusional insistence that he knows me and was expected by me is indicative of a dangerous, delusional, and irrational fixation on me,” Carpenter wrote.
Applegate refused to leave until police arrived, according to the detective’s report, which added that Applegate had “developed a disturbing and irrational fixation” on Carpenter.
He was ultimately arrested on suspicion of trespassing, but returned to the neighborhood over the next two days, according to Carpenter. Applegate parked his car nearby and reclined his seat so it would be more difficult to see him, wrote Carpenter, while he conducted “deliberate surveillance” and “harassment.” Once the authorities responded, he left again.
“His pattern of stalking, trespassing, and surveillance has caused me severe and ongoing emotional distress, and I am in fear [of] what he may do if he is not restrained by this Court,” Carpenter wrote in her request for a civil harassment restraining order.
Carpenter said her security personnel determined that Applegate had been parking in the neighborhood and getting “progressively closer” to her home since around April 20.
Besides her home, the restraining order also covers Carpenter’s workplace and vehicle, and stipulates that Applegate may not harass, intimidate, threaten, contact, or stalk her.
The police department submitted its case from the May 23 incident to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office to determine whether charges should be filed. A related court hearing is scheduled for June 18.
