The man accused of sending Suddenly Susan star Brooke Shields "dozens" of nude photos of himself and stalking the actress for at least a decade will stand trial in the case.
Mark Ronald Bailey is said to have been obsessed with Shields since the days in which she put her career on hold to study at Princeton University. He's charged with stalking the actress with a handgun and being a felon in charge with a firearm. His attorney, Lisa Polansky, argues there is no evidence Bailey would harm the 34-year-old Shields.
But a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy, Merrill Ladenheim, told Los Angeles Municipal Court Bailey has stalked and terrorized Shields for at least 15 years, sending her over a hundred letters and fifty nude photographs. Ladenheim read a series of "rambling, often sexually and violently graphic" letters Bailey had written to Shields to the court at Bailey's preliminary hearing, according to the New York Post.
The letters veered from compliments to comparing Shields - who first achieved notoriety as a young teenager for her role as a 12-year-old prostitute in Pretty Baby - to a prostitute or a mail order bride, the Post says.
A 12-page letter to the Suddenly Susan star Bailey's said to have written last October prompted Shields to call Los Angeles authorities. He was arrested in downtown Los Angeles after sheriff's deputies began following him and spotted him holding a .25 caliber steel pistol at his side while appraising his reflection in an office window, the Post says.
This isn't the first time Bailey has faced charges in connection to Shields - he was arrested for breaking into her New Jersey home in 1985. Ladenheim told the court Bailey's name alone provoked "great fear" in Shields.
Bailey has been in jail on $500,000 bail since his arrest, the Post says.
