In 2012, Justin Massler was set free after being held at Bellevue Hospital for nearly a year. The diagnosed schizophrenic was receiving psychiatric treatment after stalking and harassing Ivanka Trump.
Massler pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor aggravated harassment charge for flooding Ivanka Trump’s inbox on multiple platforms with threatening and provocative content from 2008 to 2010. He sent thousands of messages, including a picture of himself covered in what appeared to be blood.
In addition to the digital threat he posed, he also threatened to commit suicide in her Madison Avenue jewelry store after reportedly buying earrings to give her as a gift.
According to reports, Massler later posted a YouTube video blaming the harassment on alien mind control, and later changed his name to Cloud Starchaser.
But after his stint at Bellevue Hospital, the judge released him on the condition he continue to take medication and never contact Ivanka Trump or her family again.
And for a time, he did — but not because he was abiding by the law; rather, it was because he had found another fe
The NY Daily Post reported that Claire was used to bizarre art-scene “shenanigans,” so when he showed up at her gallery wearing a spacesuit, she wasn’t concerned in the slightest.
However, her peace of mind quickly vanished once he began speaking. She told the NY Daily Post:
“He told me that I reminded him of Jessica Rabbit meets Leeloo from ‘The Fifth Element,’ and that I was a supreme being. And that he was going to stalk me.”
He reportedly sent the Jewish art curator thousands of messages, again, on multiple platforms, and even threatened to gas her with the Nazi pesticide Zyklon B. He also sent her rape fantasies “involving hobbits” and numerous kidnapping plots to “harness her magical powers.”
Suffice it to say that although Claire understands Massler is sick, she is understandably sick of him.
She said every single day for the past six years she has had to check the IP address from where Massler’s messages are sent, and depending on the content of those messages, Claire’s day is either tolerable or ruined.
She also told the Daily News that when she went to the L.A. Police Department she was met with laughter. Officials allegedly said that because Massler didn’t have a permanent address listed, it would be nearly impossible to serve him with a restraining order.
Now, she’s reaching out to the First Daughter to aid her in providing more resources for victims of stalking and harassment, along with new legislation to provide further protection. She said:
“The Trumps have the biggest platform in the world, and they haven’t done anything for this bipartisan issue. I would like to have a lunch with her. I would like to get our nails done.”
In fact, Claire has even come up with ideas for multiple services that would prove instrumental in the everyday comfort and well-being of victims, like a national stalking registry which would provide cross-state tracking of stalkers, and an app that would notify victims when/if their stalker was within a set distance from them.
Additionally, Claire’s also outlined some of her ideas into legislation: an electronic restraining order served via read receipts to better protect victims of homeless or nomadic stalkers, as well as ankle monitors for stalkers on probation.
Although Ivanka’s stalker issues still haven’t stopped after Massler’s 2012 hearing, she’s also privileged enough to afford extra protection like gated communities and security guards — not to mention the Secret Service as a member of the First Family.
Lenora Claire’s initiatives to add legal and personal protection for victims who aren’t financially well-off enough to do so themselves will clearly be an uphill battle. However sharing an experience — and a stalker — with the First Daughter will hopefully prove pivotal in her attempt to live stalker-free.