Billie Eilish obtains restraining order against alleged stalker

Billie Eilish obtained a restraining order against a man who has been harassing her and threatening her friends and family.

In legal documents obtained by The Times, Eilish claimed that Shawn Christopher McIntyre, 53, has been sending hundreds of messages via social media to her and her family since September. The messages to Eilish, her close family friend, Zoe Donahoe, and her mother, Maggie May Baird, contained “disturbing declarations of love for me and other disturbing and violent threats against my brother.” Finneas Baird O’Connell.”

He “Bad boyThe hitmaker said she has suffered a lot of anxiety, fear and emotional distress for her personal safety and the safety of her family and friends. She cited a continued loss of peace, quiet and personal space as a result of repeated instances of harassment by McIntyre. Eilish also said that she had hired a 24-hour security team because of the threats. She requested that a judge grant the restraining order requiring McIntyre to cease any contact with her and stay at least 100 meters from her, her family and Donahoe.

One of the messages, included in court documents, said that if Eilish did not arrive at McIntyre’s residence “soon,” she would take the Los Angeles Metro to hurt her brother and his friends. The Instagram direct messages detailed extreme threats of violence against O’Connell, as well as vague threats of violence, including: “I’m sorry for what’s going to happen to your brother, I tried, you know what I’m saying, I really tried.. “

Many of the messages sent to Eilish were also incoherent ramblings that mentioned robots, threats to kill Elon Musk, and Musk’s brain chip company. Neuralink.

The most recent, and perhaps most alarming, incident occurred on November 4 at around 2:10 am. “I received a notification that someone was outside my residence and had rung the intercom doorbell multiple times,” Eilish wrote in the document. “I was able to see a camera capturing the exterior of my home, which showed the individual wandering in front of the front door of my residence, talking on the phone, and finally sitting in front of the door of my residence.”

The Glendale Police Department was called and arrived shortly after. Police searched the man and asked him to leave, but Eilish’s security team spoke to police afterwards and they said the man was McIntyre.

“Unless restrained, I fear that Mr. McIntyre will do everything possible to contact me or act on his violent threats against Finneas and Zoe,” Eilish wrote to the judge, noting that she is especially distressed because McIntyre knows where She lives and has visited her house, and also that of her parents, trying to find her. “I am concerned that he also knows where Finneas and Zoe live and that if left unchecked, he will continue his pattern of harassment against all of us, act on his threats, and go to even more extreme lengths to act on his threats. wild fantasies.

It was unclear whether McIntyre had legal representation and The Times was unable to contact him.