AKM-GSI A Los Angeles judge has dismissed Ryan Gosling's case against an alleged stalker because his legal team was unable to find the woman and serve her with a restraining order he had obtained last year.
The 34-year-old star of The Notebook , who lives in the city with partner Eva Mendes, 40, and their 4-month-old daughter Esmeralda Gosling, had claimed in his original filing in November that Grace Marie Del Villar, 34, believed she was his "twin flame" and was harassing and stalking him and people close to him. She has not commented.
In November, the actor was granted a temporary restraining order against her and then filed for a three-year extension. His legal team withdrew its request to make it more permanent after being unable to locate the woman and serve her with a copy of the document, which had stated that she must stay at least 100 yards away from the actor and his family and cease all communications, E! News has learned.
Gosling had accused Del Villar of harassment, compulsive communication via mail and email and physical stalking of him, his mother and his sister, saying she traveled from New York to Los Angeles and sought entry into his home late at night in October, court documents showed. He had claimed that the woman sent a "page torn from a magazine which featured Eva Mendes" to his manager, and a "doll catalog" to a Gosling family residence—each with her contact information attached.
Gosling had said he was "seriously alarmed" by Del Villar's alleged actions and had "real and reasonable fears for his and his families' safety, and that of those around them."
He added that she claimed she had a personal relationship with him and his family and that his security provider has "expressly informed" Del Villar that he and his family do not know her, that "communications were inappropriate and unwanted, and that she should not attempt to communicate any further with them."
—Reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum