Celebrity Legal Issues

Hey, If Nancy Grace Can Get a Protective Order Against a Fan, Can I Get One Against Her?

Nancy Grace, the brash CNN talking head who highlights sordid stories of murder and sex nightly on her network, actually has at least one admirer. Unfortunately for Ms. Grace, he is a wacko.

Despite the fact that their personalities seem quite compatible, Ms. Grace sued Joseph Raymond Loegering for a protective order to prevent him from stalking her. Grace v. Loegering, No. 05117278 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., New York County).

Mr. Loegering, it seems, is now a resident of the psychiatric ward of St. Lukes–Roosevelt Hospital Center (where, presumably, the rest of Ms. Grace’s fans are also incarcerated). Mr. Loegering sent Ms. Grace e-mails in which he claimed he was “heir by birthright of the house of Israel” and asked to meet with Ms. Grace so she could solve all of his problems and set up a meeting with Osama Bin Laden. Mr. Loegering later entered the Time Warner Center in New York, where Ms. Grace’s office is, and asked to see her so he could settle some “issues” with her. After his involuntary commitment to St. Lukes, he called Ms. Grace and told a security officer that he wanted to meet with Ms. Grace and Wolf Blitzer so the three of them could go meet with bin Laden.

The court issued the protective order against Mr. Loegering, who probably now watches Fox News. Personally, I am contemplating a class action suit for a protective order against Ms. Grace barring her from being broadcast into people’s homes and from pretending to be knowledgeable about anything related to the law. Actually, the best protective order is to simply keep the television off her channel.