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Stalker Violates Protection Order Behind Bars Again

Updated: Monday, March 18 2013, 08:03 PM EDT
COLUMBUS – A man who was convicted of stalking the actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2000 is behind bars again, accused of stalking a Central Ohio woman.

Prosecutors said Dante Soiu violated the protection order filed against him by a woman who said he has sent her scores of emails and has shown up at her business, waiting for her for hours at a time.

Soiu was convicted in 2000 of stalking Paltrow, sending her letters, pornography and showing up at her parents’ home.

He was sentenced to three years in a mental facility.

The local woman said in her protection order application that Soiu sent her letters with lengthy rants about religion and politics and also sent her a letter in which he professed, “Love is like food to a woman… do not starve her… a healthy woman needs the medicine of love every day.”

After the protection order was filed, prosecutors said he sent the woman 11 emails.

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Reporter: Tom Bosco
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