00:00Back in 2011, it was a different time. I had opened up my art gallery. It was a
00:04great source of pride. A man who I did not know, who already had a long history
00:08of stalking people where he was arrested, a lot of violent acts. He had been
00:12arrested for stalking Ivanka Trump. He came to Los Angeles. He opened up a
00:16magazine. He saw me. He became affixated. He came to my gallery and he looked at
00:21me and he said, you look like Jessica Rabbit. Okay, thanks. And he said, I'm
00:25gonna stalk you. Like he looked me right in the eye and told me that and I just
00:29thought it was a bizarre interaction. I kind of removed him from the gallery
00:32and then shortly after my friends who I told that this had happened to were
00:35sending me news articles like, oh no, this guy is a convicted stalker. And so he was
00:40taken by the bounty hunters to serve in New York and Rikers Island where he
00:43started writing me these really terrifying letters. They very quickly
00:47escalated to very graphic death threats that he was writing and sending to my
00:53gallery. And I took them to law enforcement. I was like, okay, here's
00:57somebody with a long criminal history. And LAPD Northeast Division, they told me to
01:02dye my hair and get off the internet. That was their advice to me. And so that's
01:05when I started to do things like he would send me emails and he bounced all over
01:09the country. So that's where I started learning how to like track IP so that I
01:12could know what level of danger I was in. He was in California. I was on high alert.
01:16If he was out of state, I could kind of breathe that way. When you're a stalking
01:19survivor, everything about your life changes. And so the first big thing for me was
01:23giving up my business.
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