Cook Crazy Female Fan tracked for more than a year to be Apple CEO roommate

Reuter

A 45-year-old woman was suspected of threatening, harassing and stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook for more than a year, in addition to sending hundreds of emails and breaking into his home. Apple applied to the court for a restraining order and was granted.

According to court documents, Apple has obtained a restraining order against a 45-year-old woman from Virginia.

Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, South Bay, San Francisco. Apple filed an application with the court on the 20th, and the judge gave the order the next day, and was announced by the Santa Clara County Superior Court yesterday afternoon.

The court ordered that the woman be barred from approaching any Apple employee, including Cook, with a gun and barring her from entering Apple's assets and Cook's home.

After The Mercury News in California disclosed the news, it was reported by major media outlets across the United States. Apple's application documents to the court denounced the woman for "unusual, threatening and bizarre behavior," along with copies of photos, emails and tweets sent by the woman.

Apple believes the woman "may be carrying a firearm, still in San Francisco's South Bay, and has the intention of returning to Cook's residence, or otherwise finding Cook."

Apple's filing to the court mentions that Cook was first spotted in late 2020 by the female admirer, and Cook's social media tweet was marked by the woman who identified herself as "Cook," who claimed to be the wife of Apple's CEO and cook was the father of her twin children.

On Halloween 2020, she tweeted Cook more than a dozen times about the so-called "relationship." In late October and mid-November that year, she sent about 200 emails to Cook, "in a clearly escalating tone, threatening, and highly disturbing."

Apple's lawyers said the woman applied for companies in The Name of Cook in California, New York and Virginia, listing Cook as the director of the false companies and attaching Cook's home address.

A series of emails also included photos of gun medicine. Last September, the woman became obsessed with Cook's home in Palo Alto, writing an email to Cook saying she was applying to "be his roommate."

Soon after, she went to Cook's home and was stopped by security guards and left; a month later, she briefly entered Cook's estate and returned to her own car, where police reportedly towed her car away because her driver's license had expired.

Court documents state that she continued to write emails to Cook and left her address in San Jose, but that was an Airbnb location. Before Christmas last year, she emailed Cook again asking for $500 million. This month she used her new Twitter account to threaten Cook with violent language, threatening to burn down his home. According to court documents, she also sent an email asking Cook to move.

The local court will hold a hearing on this on March 29.