{"id":2047442,"date":"2025-09-24T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2047442"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:51:23","slug":"taylor-swift-wins-5-year-restraining-order-against-her-alleged-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-wins-5-year-restraining-order-against-her-alleged-stalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift wins 5-year restraining order against her alleged stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor Swift has been granted a five-year restraining order against an alleged stalker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to court documents obtained by The Times, the 35-year-old singer won the order on Monday. She had initially filed a declaration in Los Angeles County Superior Court on June 6, and was subsequently granted a temporary order three days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man, Brian Jason Wagner, is alleged to have attempted to enter her Los Angeles home on three occasions in July 2024, the Cut <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/who-is-taylor-swift-stalker-brian-jason-wagner.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>reports<\/u><\/a>. In one incident, Wagner allegedly wielded \u201ca glass bottle that could have been used as a weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He allegedly told Swift a series of \u201cuntrue\u201d statements \u201cdisconnected from reality,\u201d including the claims that he lived on her property, that they were in a relationship together, and that she was the mother of his child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The declaration also alleged that Wagner had appeared at her home on May 21 and 22. He claimed to have been \u201cchecking on a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swift\u2019s security team reportedly generated a criminal-history report on Wagner, which revealed he was previously incarcerated and, during this time, wrote numerous letters to Swift describing an \u201cinfatuation\u201d with her and the \u201cromantic relationship\u201d they had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also allegedly attempted to redirect mail from her home and successfully changed his driver\u2019s license address to hers with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Alex Welch, a security staffer for Swift, became aware of this when said driver\u2019s license was mailed to the star&#8217;s residence, USA Today <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/23\/taylor-swift-restraining-order-stalker\/86308169007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>reports<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the order issued Monday, Wagner must stay away from all of Swift\u2019s homes, vehicles and workplaces, and may not contact her in any way. Additionally, it prevents him from owning firearms or body armor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court documents say that Wagner is from Colorado and did not appear at Monday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This isn\u2019t the first time Swift has had to seek a restraining order against an individual. In 2014, she sought out an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/la-et-mg-taylor-swift-restraining-order-timothy-sweet-20140325-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:injunction;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>injunction<\/u><\/a> against a man who had allegedly been issuing threats to her and her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Read more:<\/b> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/la-et-mg-taylor-swift-restraining-order-timothy-sweet-20140325-story.html?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=promo_module&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Taylor Swift granted 3-year restraining order against scary fan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Taylor Swift granted 3-year restraining order against scary fan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Timothy Sweet was alleged to have maintained that he was married to Swift, and declared he would \u201ckill any man who gets in the way\u201d of his perceived relationship with her. According to court documents, he also allegedly visited her homes in Nashville and Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMr. Sweet\u2019s course of conduct, including threats to harm my family, are seriously alarming and harassing and are extremely distressing to me and my family,\u201d she wrote in a declaration, filed on Mar. 3, 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In another incident, a 38-year-old man named Daniel Cole had a no-contact order issued against him after visiting Swift\u2019s Rhode Island vacation home. A judge claimed he had ignored warnings, and Cole was released on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/newsletters\/sign-up-for-our-entertainment-alerts?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=newsletter_module&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment-alerts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. Times entertainment alerts.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. Times entertainment alerts. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2025-09-24\/taylor-swift-wins-five-year-restraining-order-against-her-alleged-stalker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has been granted a five-year restraining order against an alleged stalker. According to court documents obtained by The Times, the 35-year-old singer won the order on Monday. She had initially filed a declaration in Los Angeles County Superior Court on June 6, and was subsequently granted a temporary order three days later. 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