Look out, Alec and Hilaria — your accused stalker wants to drag you both into a Manhattan courtroom.
Shapely French Canadian Genevieve Sabourin today rejected a bargain-basement, no-jail, no criminal record deal by prosecutors for her alleged antics, which include a string of twisted Tweets and uninvited show-ups last year at the Baldwins’ Greenwich Village apartment and East Hampton house.
“I think it’s a very offensive offer,” the pretty blonde told reporters outside court, saying a jury acquittal is the only way she can begin to “get my life back.”
“I’ve spent my retirement plan,” on travel and legal expenses, she said. “My house is gone. I’m homeless right now. I am two weeks at a friend, two weeks at another friend,” she said. “I move every two weeks.”
Then she pulled out of her handbag a copy of Baldwin’s paperback, A Prominse to Ourselves: a Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce.” The book bristled with Post-It notes. “This explains everything,” she winked.
Sabourin also switched lawyers today, postponing any trial until at least May 13, her next court date. Her previous lawyer, Rick Pasacreta, who was publicly funded, said he was stepping down due to irreconcilable differences — including his inability to convince Sabourin to stop phoning and visiting the DA’s office.
“They have a big black and white picture on the 7th floor [of 1 Hogan Place] saying do not allow this person to enter the DA’s office,” Pasacreta explained to reporters. “The DA’s office tells me she has been calling them a dozen or more times, including as recently as last week,” he said.
“The DA simply hangs up on me,” Sabourin concedes.
“We believe the charges are baseless and we expect a full exoneration” at trial, said Todd Spodek, who is working pro bono and is now her third lawyer.
Today’s rejected deal would have meant no jail and no criminal record for the pretty blonde bit actress, who has insisted she’d had a fling with the actor back in the Fall of 2010, and then continued a romantic email, phone and Facebook correspondence with him for many months afterward, even as he was dating Hilaria.
A “bad breakup,” her previous lawyer had called the whole mess.
The actor has admitted in court papers to no more contact than once taking Sabourin, 40, to dinner as a favor to a mutual friend.
Still, in her emails and texts, Sabourin tells the actor she loves him, wants to have his baby, and needs cash — and threatens to start a “massive destructive war” is he doesn’t speak to her, according to court papers.
“I need to start my new life, with my new name, with my new carrier[sic] in my new country help my newly husband, you!” she emailed a year ago, according to court papers.
Under the currently proposed deal, Sabourin would agree to stay 10 blocks away in any direction from the Baldwins’ Manhattan apartment, from NBC studios and from Hilaria’s yoga studios, essentially steering clear of most of the island.
Sabourin would also have to stay out of the entire town of Amagansett, where the Baldwins have their home. If she complies and is not re-arrested, in 18 months she’d be allowed to withdraw her plea and have the charges dismissed entirely. If she fails to comply, she’d go to jail for 15 days.
As strangely stringent as the Manhattan and Amagansett quarantines would be, Sabourin is happy to live her life outside of the Baldwin blockade, her previous lawyer has said.
“She has no desire to go anywhere near him ever again,” Pasacreta said. “She wants to go on with her life.”
It’s the demand for counseling that may be the deal breaker.
Sabourin would have had to continue meeting at least once every two weeks with her current therapist or another therapist approved by the District Attorney’s office. She would also have to provide proof of compliance with counseling to the DA’s office every six months.
Problem is, “She doesn’t feel she needs counseling,” Pasacreta has said.
“I don’t have the $20,000, $30,000 to do that,” she said today of seeing a therapist.
Sabourin is charged with harassing and stalking Alec Baldwin and with violating orders of protection barring her from any contact with the actor and his yoga instructor wife.
Prosecutors would need to call Alec to the stand to testify that he feared for his and his wife’s safety; Hilaria, who is currently four months pregnant, would likely testify to a 911 call she made to report a visit by Sabourin to the couple’s apartment and to receiving Sabourin’s tweets despite the protection order.