Killed by their fans
Superfan Yolanda had been embezzling money from Selena
SHOT DEAD: Lennon’s killer Mark Chapman, right, in custody
ASSASSINATED: Rebecca Schaeffer
Living life in the p public eye may bring you m money, fame and horde hordes of fans.
But occasionally, adoration sours and celebrities are exposed to individu individuals who go from fans to dangerou dangerously fanatic.
Perhaps the most famous example exam of a celebrity killed by a fan happen happened nearly 40 years ago when John Lenn Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman.
Earlier that same day, in Decemb December 1980, Lennon had signed an autograp autograph for Chapman, who was waiting outsid outside his New York home. When th the musician returned that night night, Chapman fired five bullets, fou four of which hit Lennon in the back. back
The killer waited calmly at t he scene, reading JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, until he was arrested. Cchapman Chapman l ater expllained plained that he had been a Beatles fan but after a religious awakening, he was motivated to
kill over Lennon’s
FRAUDULENT: Yolanda Saldivar
remark that the group were “more popular than Jesus”. The star said he was making a point about the apparent t decline in popularity of Christianity. Chapman admitted murder and was given a sentence of 20 years to life. He has been denied parole ten times since 2000.
Actress Rebecca Schaeffer also met a tragic end at the age of 21.
Superfan Robert John Bardo became obsessed with the My Sister Sam star and wrote to her for more than three years, asking to meet her on set.
In July 1989, Bardo was outraged by a bedroom scene the actress had filmed and spent £180 on a private investigator to find out where she lived.
Obsessed
The crazed fan went on to shoot her as she opened the front door of her Hollywood home.
In court, Bardo’s lawyer argued his schizophrenia caused him to murder the actress but he was found guilty of murder and handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Mexican singer Selena QuintanillaPerez was also killed by a fan – Yolanda Saldivar, who had begged to set up a fan club in honour of her idol.
Initially the pair were friends and Selena hired Yolanda to manage her clothing boutique as well as the fan club.
But she later found Yolanda had ha been embezzling money and fired fir her. After Selena requested t th he return of some l egal documents, do the pair agree agreed to meet me at a motel in
March M 1995 but the he two women got ot into a row and nd
Yolanda shot t the he singer in the b back. A stand-off w with police followed owed as Yolanda olanda sat in he her er truck holding the gun to her head. After nine hours she surrendered rendered and in October 1995 995 was found guilty of murder. der.
Yolanda was as sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years. ars.
In 2014 singer inger Christina Grimmie – who ho came third on the US version on of The Voice – caught the e eye of Kevin James Loibl, of St Petersburg, Florida.
He would obsessively watch Youtube be videos of the 22-year-old d and even had a hair transplant ransplant and whitened his teeth in a bid to attract ct her.
In June 2016, he approached Christina after a show and shot her dead before turning urning the gun on himself. lf.