Baywatch Alum Alexandra Paul Opens Up About 13-12 months Stalker ‘Nightmare’ That Price Her $60K

The terrifying ordeal purportedly started when the lady knocked on Alexander’s door in 2011 asking if her son might use the toilet — and didn’t cease till the lady’s dying final 12 months.

An act of kindness led to greater than a decade of torment, in accordance with Baywatch alum Alexandra Paul. The actress opened up about her 13-year “nightmare” with an alleged stalker in a brand new piece revealed by The Ankler on Wednesday.

The German lady shouldn’t be named within the piece, however Alexandra says she was 20 years youthful than her and handed away final 12 months.

Earlier than that, Alexandra stated she and her husband, Ian Murray, endured ordeal after ordeal, together with the actress being run off the highway, Ian getting hit, and an entire slew of terrible allegations from infidelity to pedophilia. She even claimed to be Alexandra’s “secret lover,” in accordance with the article.

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And all of it started in December 2011, when Alexandra wrote {that a} lady knocked on her door with a boy, asking if he might use her toilet as a result of they lived three hours away.

Calling herself a “individuals pleaser,” Alexandra stated she allow them to in, “made small discuss together with her and launched my husband Ian whereas the little boy used the bathroom.”

The girl and the boy left and Alexandra wrote that she did not suppose way more of it. But it surely did not cease there, as out of the blue sooner or later there was a thanks be aware at her door. After which one other one with candies. After which a 3rd asking if the boy might come again to offer Alexandra an image he’d drawn.

Alexandra requested the lady to go away her household alone, and he or she did … till 9 months later when she rented a house only one block away from Alexandra’s home.

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Traumatized by Stalker

Quick-forward a lot nearer to the current, and Paul started her article for The Ankler with only one incident of how this example escalated into one thing all-consuming and terrifying for her and her household.

“I place my grocery luggage within the again seat and am beginning my automotive to go away the car parking zone in Santa Monica. All of a sudden, the passenger door opens. As quickly as I see who has slipped into the passenger seat, I begin screaming.”

She shared that by this level, she’d been coping with this particular person for a decade, detailing the lengths she’d gone to attempt to cease it and defend her household.

“I’ve spent greater than $60,000 in authorized charges, hiring non-public investigators and putting in safety methods to attempt to defend my home,” she wrote. “I test the road each time I go away residence, keep away from interactions with followers and infrequently go to public occasions. I’ve been swatted, my husband has been hit by a automotive pushed by my stalker, my aged mom has been harassed at her residence in one other state.”

As quickly as I see who has slipped into the passenger seat, I begin screaming

Within the above-mentioned incident, Alexandra wrote that she acquired out of her automotive to enter the shop, just for the lady to begin following her. So she circled again, jumped in her automotive and locked the door, leaving her alleged stalker “banging on the window, pressing shouting.”

She goes on to say that when police arrive, the lady is gone and he or she’s handled like “a hysteric” and never taken significantly. She believes the actual fact her stalker is “a white European lady, conventionally enticing, neatly dressed and 20 years youthful” is why she’s not been taken significantly sufficient about any of this. She wrote that as she begged the officer to comply with the lady, discover out what automobile she’s in, he as an alternative stands there “and he or she is getting away. Once more.”

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Escalating Interactions

Shortly after the lady out of the blue turned Alexandra’s neighbor greater than a decade in the past, the actress stated that they began working into each other an increasing number of typically, which she took as coincidence at first.

Then, she stated, she observed the lady was at all times on the fitness center the identical time as her, and on the piece of kit proper subsequent to her. She stated administration might do nothing, they informed her, “so I left that fitness center as a result of they may not legally require her to go away.”

After the lady allegedly “cornered me in a parking storage” and “tried to bodily forestall me from strolling away,” Alexandra stated she acquired her first restraining order in opposition to the lady — which she proceeded to violate 29 occasions.

“As time went on, her perspective in direction of me vacillated from awkward adoration to hatred for my husband … to a certainty that I wanted rescuing from him, to anger at each of us for ignoring her, to an insistence that I actually was in love together with her.”

As Alexandra being involving the authorized system on this course of the lady allegedly informed a decide at one listening to, “If it wasn’t for Ian, Alexandra and I’d be shut associates.”

“I’ve taken out restraining orders, my stalker has been investigated by the FBI, arrested, jailed and deported to Germany,” Alexandra wrote. “However nothing has deterred her from her fixation on me. She at all times comes again.”

She claimed the lady began sending posters across the neighborhood asserting that Ian was an antisemite. She additionally “informed police my husband was beating me” and “crashed his office to falsely assert he was a pedophile.” Alexandra stated she additionally despatched her mom an “unhinged” letter claiming to be Alexandra’s “secret lover who wanted saving from my violent, dishonest husband.”

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Deportation Did not Cease It

Alexandra wrote that after “a number of years” of putting up with this lady’s alleged harassment, she was lastly arrested and deported to Germany. Because it turned out, per the essay, the lady was in america illegally.

However even that wasn’t sufficient to cease it. The girl filed go well with in opposition to Alexandra for allegedly attempting to run her off the highway in her automotive when, in accordance with Alexandra, it was the opposite lady who chased her going “90 miles an hour, attempting to catch me.” She wrote that the decide noticed by that case and it was dismissed, “however not earlier than it price us hundreds of {dollars} in authorized charges.”

Then, two years later, she stated the lady returned and once more allegedly focused Ian with the “monstrous allegations” of pedophilia, blasting his social media with the unfounded accusations.

Interacting with followers had been a fantastic a part of my life, however now I’m cautious when somebody approaches

One fateful day, per the essay, the couple observed the lady sitting exterior of their hours in a van, so Ian went out to {photograph} her license plate. Alexandra writes that upon seeing him, the lady “drove her automobile straight at him.”

She watched as her husband purportedly “bounced off the hood, touchdown laborious on the pavement, scraped and bruised, as she drove away.”

Even a number of damaged restraining order hearings turned a part of the “creepy” stalking for Alexandra, who wrote that issues acquired to the purpose the place “I knew what the stalker can be sporting every time as a result of it was precisely what I had worn on the earlier listening to.”

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Secret IDs and Relocation

Eleven years in, Alexandra stated that she and her husband have been so determined that they acquired “particular new IDs” and moved to a unique state, renting a house beneath an LLC to obscure any connection between the house and themselves. The girl allegedly discovered them “inside six weeks.”

She then, in accordance with Alexandra’s article, started to distribute those self same kinds of inflammatory flyers round this new group, sharing their names and handle. This time, as a result of she had crossed state strains, Alexandra stated they have been in a position to contain the FBI, and he or she was arrested inside 9 months of following them.

5 months after her incarceration, the lady was purportedly identified with breast most cancers and the courts agreed to let her “spend her final days at residence.” She handed on July 29, 2024 at 41 years previous, per Alexandra’s essay.

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And thru all of it, Alexandra stated she nonetheless has no concept why she was purportedly focused by this lady “as the article of each her need and her hatred.”

“My stalker modified me ceaselessly. Interacting with followers had been a fantastic a part of my life, however now I’m cautious when somebody approaches,” she wrote. “Ian and I’ve withdrawn extra into ourselves.”

“I’ll by no means know why she picked me,” she wrote. “I’m nonetheless working by the guilt of my preliminary politeness to her, which most likely strengthened her delusion that I used to be fascinated by her,” including, “The stress positioned on Ian and the harm performed to his profession due to her harassment — due to me — nonetheless haunts me.”

She went on to share methods and sources for anybody who is anxious they could be coping with a stalker, together with to “watch out about how private you get on social media,” inform family and friends, “doc each interplay with somebody who’s getting bizarre,” and maybe most significantly, “File the f–king restraining order.”