Top 20 Celebrity Stalkers

Hinckley moved near her when she went to Yale University and slipped poems and messages under her door. When that didn’t work, he decided to tell her about his plot to assassinate the president. Hinckley went after Jimmy Carter, but got arrested. Then in 1981, he fired 6 shots at the newly elected Ronald Reagan, hitting him with a bullet that ricocheted of the limo. Why? – Hinckley became obsessed with the movie Taxi Driver in 1976 where Foster plays a child prostitute and wrote that the shooting was “the greatest love offering in the history of the world” and was upset that Foster didn’t reciprocate his feelings. Result: Hinckley was arrested at the scene of the shooting and to this day is at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C.

Napolis threatened to violently attack Spielberg at a movie premiere, and she stalked Hewitt at various events, calling the actress a murderer. Apparently, she believed Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, were part of a satanic cult who inserted “soul catchers” into people as a way to controlling them. As for Love Hewitt, she believed the actress was trying to kill her via mind control.

In 980, Mark David Chapman came to New York City in order to killing former Beatles singer and political activist. After spending the afternoon outside Lennon's apartment, Chapman shot the music legend in the back multiple times when he attempted to enter his apartment.

In 1989, Rebecca Schaeffer, former star of the television series My Sister Sam, was fatally shot by long-time stalker Bardo in the doorway of her own home.

In 2004, Knight sent threatening letters and described in one how she would “cut Zeta-Jones into little pieces and feed her to the dogs.” Why such anger? Knight got it into her head that she was going to marry Catherine’s husband, Michael Douglas, and set out to get rid of the wife.

Anthony Gary Silvestri broke into the home of television reporter Kathryn Dettman, and stabbed her more than a dozen times, leaving her dead on the apartment floor.

After seeing Passion of the Christ, Sinclair became obsessed with the idea of praying Gibson. In 2004, he sent multiple letters to Gibson and showed up at his house and church on several occasions. Eventually Sinclair was sent to a psychiatric facility and given a three-year jail sentence.

Reichert-Habbishaw contacted Gere by phone, fax and email over1,000 times, and eventually showed up at his Greenwich Village office multiple times, telling Gere, “I want to be with you and share your life.”