Alleged stalker must stay away until 2009
By Daily Press Staff
SM COURTHOUSE — Colin Farrell obtained a stay-away order Monday against a Santa Monica woman who confronted the “Miami Vice” star on stage during a taping of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in Burbank last month.
Santa Monica Superior Court Judge John H. Reid issued a preliminary injunction directing 31-year-old Dessarae Bradford to stay at least 150 yards from Farrell, his 2-year-old son, James Nathaniel, and the boy’s mother, Kim Marie Bordenave, according to City News Service.
The order expires in August 2009. Neither Bradford nor Farrell attended the hearing. Bradford reportedly called the courtroom later and said she would be filing a petition to set aside the order, a clerk said.
Bradford allegedly accosted the 30-year-old Irish actor July 20 in front of Leno, NBC security and a studio audience, according to a petition.
The next day, a judge pro tem issued a temporary restraining order against Bradford, who is a former phone-sex operator and model, according to People magazine.
“I don’t know Ms. Bradford, nor have I had personal contact with her prior to (last night), when she accosted me during a taping of a television show,” Farrell said in a petition, City News Service reported. “I am concerned for the safety of my family, given Ms. Bradford’s ongoing course of conduct escalating unwanted personal contact.”
Bradford, who had been in the studio audience, came onto the stage and exchanged words with Farrell, who escorted her offstage and called for NBC security personnel.
He then returned and apologized to the audience, joking that he had just met his “first stalker.”
Bradford has filed “numerous harassing lawsuits” against Farrell and left “threatening voicemails” with his lawyer.
Bradford unsuccessfully sued the star of such films as “Alexander” and “SWAT” in small-claims court, alleging that he had stalked her.
She also self-published a book, “Colin Farrell: A Dark Twisted Puppy,” which she displayed to reporters who attended a news conference she called last month, at which she claimed the star stalked her, not the other way around.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 29, 2006. Read the original PDF.