The Crown star Claire Foy ‘targeted by obsessed stalker who threatened to rape her and sent her sick emails’
THE Crown’s Claire Foy was stalked by a man who repeatedly rang her doorbell and threatened rape in emails, a court heard.
Jason Penrose, 38, sent the actress’ publicist Emma Jackson explicit emails about “Foy being raped, whoring herself out and wanting to be his girlfriend”, court papers claimed.
Another email sent in November said: “I’m sorry I think Claire’s policy should be not talking about any personal stuff in media and only creative business.”
Ms Jackson forwarded the emails to Foy’s agent, who had also received messages but had blocked the account.
Claire, 37, who played The Queen in the first two series of Netflix’s The Crown, called police in December when he was outside her home ringing her doorbell constantly, the papers say.
Chairman of the bench at Highbury magistrates court Amanda Gibbon granted a temporary SPO, with conditions preventing Penrose from contacting Foy or Ms Jackson.
He is also banned from attending their homes, workplaces or anywhere they reasonably expect they would be.
Any breach of the order, which will remain in place until a hearing for a full order on June 30, can be prosecuted as a criminal offence.
Ms Gibbon said: “Bearing in mind the effects on the victims in this case and the extent to which the activity escalated, from a series of emails with particularly explicit content to a personal visit and staying in the area where one of the victims lives, and the effect this has had on the victims and their lifestyle, we consider it is appropriate to make the order.”
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The court heard Penrose, whose address on court files is a hotel in Paddington, west London, had been sectioned and was not expected to attend.
He later arrived and the terms of the order were explained to him outside court.
Foy has won a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, starred in Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller Unsane, and played Neil Armstrong’s wife Janet Shearon in the biopic of the astronaut, First Man.