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Accused Spears Stalker Slave 4 Suing
Maybe it's all a cultural misunderstanding.
The Japanese businessman accused of stalking Britney Spears earlier in the month filed a $2 million suit in U.S. District Court Monday against the city of Los Angeles for allegedly stripping him of his human dignity.
It's the second lawsuit filed by Masahiko Shizawa within a week; last Thursday he sued Spears for an unspecified amount, claiming that her security guards intimidated him and caused him "extreme emotional distress."
Shizawa's latest suit stems from an October 2002 search of the Sunset Boulevard hotel room where he was staying at the time. He claims that police "coerced" him into allowing the search and seizure of some of his belongings, causing "loss of human dignity."
The outcome of the search led to Shizawa's banishment from the United States, as he was seen as a perceived threat to Spears. The exile, he claims, limited his ability to work and caused him emotional distress.
Shizawa said he's not sure exactly how much compensation he deserves, but believes it exceeds $2 million.
The emotionally distressed entrepreneurial stalker has been a thorn in Brit's side for over a year now. In 2002, he began a feverish courtship of the former Mouseketeer, attempting to woo her with such lines as "you are now living inside my head" and "I'm chasing you."
He sent the winsome warbler hundreds of love letters and photographs via snail mail and fax, and had no qualms about picking up the phone to confess his love.
In December 2002, Shizawa allegedly tried to break into Spears' Los Angeles residence, then tracked her cross-country to the Louisiana digs of her divorced parents, as well as to her New York abode.
A fed-up Brit sought a restraining order against her number one fan, but withdrew it in April 2003 after coming to an out-of-court agreement with Shizawa that he would leave her alone.
But the slave 4 Spears couldn't live up to his word, and resumed his bizarre courtship last month, sending the Oops girl notes such as "there remains serious personal issues to be resolved [between us]."
Unsurprisingly, Spears disagreed that such a resolution was necessary. Despite Shizawa's lawyer dismissing the situation as a "cultural misunderstanding" between the pop idol and an "avid fan," she headed back to court and succeeded in winning a permanent restraining order against her stalker.
Judge Alan Haber called Shizawa's behavior "an obvious pattern of harassment and emotional harm," and ordered him to stay at least 300 yards from Spears, and not to contact her for three years.
Shizawa has been cooling his heels in his hometown of Yokohama, Japan, since his visa expired last December.
Should Shizawa's case against Los Angeles ever come to trial, it's unlikely he'll be there to testify--he remains on the federal "no-fly list," and can't enter the States.
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