Alec Baldwin’s perky, unhinged accused stalker was hauled in cuffs out of Manhattan Criminal Court this afternoon — charged with violating the order of protection barring her from any contact with the actor or his yoga instructor wife.
“Why am I being arrested!” Genevieve Sabourin, a shapely French Canadian blonde, sobbed. “Tell me why I am being arrested!” the handcuffed hottie huffed as detectives with the Upper West side’s 20th precinct led her down a courthouse hallway and out to a waiting car.
As first reported in The Post, Sabourin, an aspiring actress, has been angrily tweeting about Baldwin throughout of the month, including the Nov. 8 posting that got her in hot water today.
“How Hilaria Baldwin beZEN, peaceful yogi, Alec Baldwin keep my INJUSTICE+break my life?” Sabourin wrote in that posting, signed “@hilariabaldwin.” Using wife Hilaria Baldwin’s Twitter name after the @ sign would have automatically activated a notification in Hilaria’s Twitter queue, and possibly her e-mail.
The arrest immediately followed Sabourin’s latest court appearance on more than two dozen harassment charges against the love-lorn lovely, all involving creepy e-mails to Baldwin, who Sabourin has hinted she’d had a romance with.
On March 20 alone, Baldwin received some 10 emails from her, according to his own signed affidavit submitted in the misdemeanor case in July. In the emails, Sabourin threatens to launch “a massive destructive war” to win back Baldwin’s affections.
In another e-mail, subject lined, “Defcon 1,” the would-be actress tells the 30 Rock star that either he should either call her or the FBI — because they’d need to put her in jail to prevent a “war.”
Baldwin has insisted that all he did was take the aspiring actress to dinner as a favor for a mutual friend; Sabourin has said in court papers that the dinner date also included seeing a show and Baldwin accompanying her back to her hotel.
In today’s court appearance, Sabourin’s lawyer, Maurice Sercarz, was given permission to step down from the case after arguing that she wants now to go to trial — and that she can’t afford to pay him for that. Sabourin is also continuing to make damaging media statements on the case, the lawyer said.
“Miss Sabourin feels it is a good idea to Tweet, to appear on television and discuss the case in the media contrary to my advice,” Sercarz said.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Marc Whiten appointed Sabourin a new, publicly funded lawyer, Rick Pasacreta, after she announced she’d spent some $100,000 on legal fees and travel in the eight months since her arrest, and has wiped out her savings.
“I’ve been vilified around the world more than is possible to handle in this case,” she told the judge. She’d wanted to hire high-profile defense lawyers Ben Brafman or Gerry Shargel, and spoke to them, “But they wanted $250,000 plus experts, plus a translator,” she complained.
“I’m being treated like a guilty person. This has destroyed my life,” she told the judge.
Then, just as she seemed about to dish on her purported “romance” with Baldwin, the judge cut her off.
“Because Alec Baldwin not only is a friend– ” she began.
“That is not an issue at this time,” the judge interjected.
“May I say something?” she asked the judge.
“You’ve said enough,” he answered.
Court officers had to throw Sabourin out of the courtroom before cops could arrest her just outside the door.
“I am looking for a resolution,” she kept saying, as officers shouted, “Ma’am! Step out! Step out!”
Sabourin was first arrested in April after her earliest series of emails and text messages to the actor, in which she told him she loved him, wanted to have his baby, and needed cash. The Upper West Side’s 20th Precinct became the precinct of origin in the case, arresting her, after she turned up at an event Baldwin was appearing at in Lincoln Center.
Sabourin was taken to the 20th Precinct today for processing, and from there will be brought back to the same Lower Manhattan courthouse for booking and arraignment on the new charges.