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Gere Stalker Deported
The German woman accused of stalking the Tibet-loving star for over a year pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday to aggravated harassment and was ordered to immediately leave the country.
Judge Gregory Carro issued his sentence after 51-year-old Ursula Reichert-Habbishaw admitted to phoning Gere up to 1,000 times over the last 14 months and repeatedly appearing at his New York office demanding to meet the 52-year-old actor.
Reichert-Habbishaw, a divorced mother of four, agreed to return to her hometown of Kassel, Germany. She listened tearfully as the judge informed her she would be barred reentry into the United States and will be placed on an Immigration and Naturalization Service watch list as a stalker.
Carro also warned Reichert-Habbishaw to stay away from Gere and granted him a three-year restraining order against the woman, which effectively prevents her from going anywhere near his family, home, office and business. If she somehow makes it back into the United States or is caught trying to contact Gere, she will wind up in jail for a year.
That would have been the sentence Reichert-Habbishaw would have faced had she been convicted on all counts of harassment, aggravated harassment and stalking.
Things didn't get any better for her following the court appearance. Outside, faced by a mob of reporters and glaring TV cameras, she collapsed on the sidewalk. Her court-appointed lawyer (who had said the woman came to New York to find a job) and an unidentified man helped her up, then guided her back into the courthouse and through a back door to a waiting car.
Calls to Gere's representatives were not immediately returned.
The actor, who has starred in such hits as American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman and Pretty Woman and currently appears in the romantic thriller Unfaithful, had been targeted by Reichert-Habbishaw for several months before she was finally arrested April 30, when she showed up unannounced at his office.
Despite repeated pleas from Gere's assistant to stop, Reichert-Habbishaw made hundreds of calls to the actor, often leaving sinister messages on his voice mail.
In court papers, prosecutors quoted her as saying, "I want to be with you and share your life," "Death seems to be the best," "I can take a pistol and kill myself," "I will stay with you for all time" and "I will follow you."
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