According to sources a former psychiatric patient convicted of stalking Uma Thurman was jailed Friday after he was charges with again trying to contact the oscar nominated actress.
Jack Jordan was arraigned on charges of stalking and criminal contempt for violating a restraining order. Jordan pleaded not guilty in from of the same judge who warned the 39 year old he would go to jail if he tried to contact Thurman after his 2008 conviction for stalking the Kill Bill actress. Prosecutors said he made several calls to Thurman in October. He was arrested just before Thanksgiving at his family’s home in Northern Maryland. A police spokeswoman with the suburban Washington D.C department said officers sent to arrest Jordan found him sitting in front of a computer with Thurman’s name in a google search box.
He was extradited to New York on Thursday. He told police, according to prosecutors, that the calls were a drunken mistake. No one would say how he got her phone number but in reality he called numerous times to Uma Thurman. Jordan was being held without bail until his next court date, scheduled for Wednesday. His attorney had argued for protective custody because he said he would be attacked at Rikers Island, but Manhattan Supreme Court Justice denied the request. A call from his parents was not ever returned.
The former psychiatric patient was convicted of stalking and harassing the actress from 2005 to 2007. He was sentenced in 2008 to three yeas probation and told not to try to contact Thurman for five years. Although, this didn’t deter the man from stalking and harassing her. His home was covered with Uma Thurman photos and images, and other items he had collected over time about the young actress.
Jordan testified that he’d developed a crush on Thurman in high school after seeing her in the 1988 movie. He was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital late in 2005 after being questioned about his obsession with Thurman he said.
After Jordan’s most recent arrest, Thurman said she would not comment on the case. The case is being prosecuted and she had nothing to say to the public at this point.