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Crow's "Spiritual Twin" Cleared
A former Navy diver who claimed he was a "spiritual twin" to Sheryl Crow was acquitted Tuesday of stalking the Grammy-winning singer.
It took less than three hours for the New York jury to find Ambrose Kappos innocent of tailing Crow and harassing her family over the course of a year.
Kappos, who had been discharged from the Navy in the wake of the Crow allegations, emerged from court Tuesday a happy, and free, man.
"I am sorry about the misunderstanding, but that's all it was," he told reporters gathered outside the Manhattan Supreme Court building, where the trial began on Nov. 18.
"This could have been better handled if it was recognized for what it was--an honorable man trying to court a good woman, and a simple 'no thank you' from her or her duly or authorized agents would have been satisfactory," Kappos added.
Prosecutors and Crow herself claimed Ambrose was a bona fide threat to the singer, but the jury evidently thought otherwise and sided with Kappos' version of events.
Kappos, 38, was charged with misdemeanor stalking and felony burglary for allegedly approaching Crow and her entourage as she was ushered into a stretch limo prior to a Manhattan concert in October 2003. He also managed to elude security and slip into a private backstage area of Hammerstein Ballroom near Crow's dressing room at the same concert. The charges carried a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison.
But during the trial, Kappos' attorney, Stan Hickman, portrayed the onetime Navy man as a groupie, not a stalker. (Kappos was discharged from the service shortly after the Crow allegations emerged, though it's not clear whether he was booted because of his arrest.)
Kappos' mother, who attended the trial and spoke to reporters after the verdict was read Tuesday, agreed, saying her son "just wanted to get to meet" Crow. But she did admit that Kappos had a "kooky way of doing it."
During testimony last week, Crow took the witness stand and said she was "scared" and "alarmed" by Kappos and that his presence backstage at her gig gave her "pause." "It made me feel creeped out," she added. She also said she was upset that Kappos tracked down her family in an attempt to get to her.
Hickman, however, claimed the singer was never in any real danger.
During cross-examination, Hickman pressed Crow on the fact that Kappos never contacted her directly and reminded the jury that his client had not committed any violent acts against the singer.
Kappos, meanwhile, said that two unhappy marriages and other emotional problems might have contributed to his unhealthy and, in his words, "delusional" infatuation with Crow.
After the trial ended, Kappos joked to reporters: "Clearly there was no telepathy [between him and Crow]."
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