Uma Thurman arrives at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 35th Gala Tribute honoring Meryl Streep at Avery Fisher Hall in New York on April 14, 2008. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh) |
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NEW YORK, April 29 (UPI) -- An alleged stalker tried to force his way into actress Uma Thurman's movie trailer during a film shoot in New York, an aide to the actress told a jury.
"Her hands were shaking, she was soaked," Joseph La Corte testified in the stalking-and-harassment trial of fan Jack Jordan. "She couldn't sit still. She didn't want to get dressed."
La Corte testified two Teamsters prevented Jordan from barging into Thurman's trailer in November 2005, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday. La Corte then put the shaken actress into a vehicle for the one-block ride to set of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend."
Thurman, star of the "Kill Bill" series, also was planning to take the stand in what the prosecution called Jordan's two-year campaign of "emotional blackmail."
The University of Chicago literature grad threatened suicide if she didn't date him, Assistant District Attorney Colleen Walsh told the court.
"Tell the defendant, 'Enough is enough,'" Walsh said. "The price of fame is not this."
Jordan's lawyer, George Vomvolakis, said his client is a former mental patient who "doesn't know the boundaries you and I know. He thinks it's romantic."