A Russian teenager who reportedly wanted to kill Hollywood teen idol Hilary Duff has been arrested, Los Angeles police said.
Maksim Myaskovskiy, 18, was booked Friday on suspicion of stalking and making criminal threats, said Sergeant Steve Tobias of the Manhattan Beach Police Department. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, Tobias said.
According to the celebrity Web site TMZ.com, Myaskovskiy, a Russian emigre, was arrested at a hotel after he told a private investigator that he planned to kill Duff, 19, at an event she was scheduled to attend Sunday.
TMZ reported that Duff and her boyfriend, rock star Joel Madden, have sought a restraining order against Myaskovskiy.
According to legal papers filed by Duff, Myaskovskiy came to the United States "for the sole purpose of meeting and becoming romantically involved with Ms. Duff," TMZ reported. A spokesperson for Duff was not immediately available.
Duff has appeared in such movies as the Cheaper By the Dozen comedies and Material Girls. She has also topped the US pop album charts.
omg that is scary im glad she is ok!
i feel so stupied i dont even know who Joel Madden is? Good thing Hilary is ok.
haha-- you'd be pissed too if you came 5000 miles to see her dating some schmuck in a new-wave- emo BS rockband.
Rock star Joel Madden - sorry, that's funny.
Serious side - glad Hilary is ok.
That's just plain psycho...Good for her he is gone now, hopefully...:)
thats...weird.
If only she didn't turn into a Paris... this woudn't have happened
Damn, I read Hillary Duff arrested and thought this was going to be good news. Damn my dyslexia!
Wow everything shes been threw and to think it could have ended their
wow but could he not pick s better person to stalk
omg, scary yeah.
at first i thought she was just imagining the whole stalking thing and being the conceited popstar/bad actrees she is. i guess she was being serious about this.
glad that creep is off the streets, the world's full of them.