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Uma Fan Says No to Nuthouse
You don't have to be crazy to chase Uma Thurman, but if you want to avoid jail time, it could help.
A man accused of stalking the Kill Bill actress for the past two years rejected a plea deal Wednesday that would see him pleading guilty to charges of stalking and attempted coercion in exchange for entering a mental-health facility.
Jack Jordan, a 35-year-old graduate student, pleaded not guilty to the charges last month and is currently free on $10,000 bail. He was arrested on the charges outside Thurman's New York home in October.
Should he have accepted the deal offered by prosecutors, Jordan also would have seen his felony coercion conviction downgraded to a misdemeanor after 12 months in the mental health facility.
Defense lawyer George Vomvolakis says Jordan would consider a deal if he could cop to a misdemeanor count instead of a felony. Jordan would still do the time in an institution, Vomvolakis added.
It wouldn't be the first time.
Shortly after Jordan first made unwanted contact with Thurman on a film set in November 2005, when he attempted to enter the movie star's trailer, the man's family had him involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Upon his release, authorities contend he continued his attempts at contacting the Oscar nominee, sending both her and her family a series of emails in August and September 2006.
In August of this year, he allegedly appeared at the actress' New York home three to four times a week, twice demanding to see the actress and leaving her letters. In one such hand-delivered correspondence, Jordan threatened to kill himself if he saw Thurman with another man.
Jordan, currently living at his family's Massachusetts home and enrolled in Mills College in Oakland, California, is prohibited from contacting Thurman or her family.
While Jordan has rejected the district attorney's plea offer, he will now seemingly try his chances on a potentially much harsher punishment. If convicted of the coercion charge, he faces up to four years in prison.
Thurman, meanwhile, is staying well out of arm's reach of Jordan. She's due to cohost the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert with Tommy Lee Jones in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 11.
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