Sabrina Carpenter seeks court order after alleged stalker's 'disturbing privacy violation'

Sabrina Carpenter is seeking a restraining bid aft an alleged stalker tried to unfastened her beforehand door, was arrested, past came backmost the adjacent 2 days successful a row.

The harrowing series of events began conscionable implicit a week ago, but the alleged stalker has been spotted adjacent the “Please, Please, Please” singer’s location since April, according to tribunal documents reviewed by The Times.

On May 23, William Applegate, 31, was apprehended by Carpenter’s information and constabulary aft helium made his mode onto a neighbor’s spot to breach the popular singer’s information fencing, the documents say. “It is wide to maine that his attack was deliberate, calculated and aggressive, which is profoundly alarming,” Carpenter wrote successful the request. “He past forced his mode person to my residence and precocious straight to my beforehand door. Once there, Applegate physically grabbed the lever of my beforehand doorway and forcefully pushed down, actively trying to unit his mode wrong my location without immoderate invitation, permission, oregon consent whatsoever.”

Carpenter said that, erstwhile Applegate couldn’t summation access, helium knocked connected the doorway arsenic good arsenic rang the doorbell. The Grammy-winner’s Ring camera caught the altercation erstwhile her backstage information intervened and tried to get Applegate to leave. The alleged stalker held firm, said helium knew the vocalist and that she was expecting his visit, and refused to permission until constabulary arrived.

According to Carpenter’s statement, the antheral was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department but past returned to her location little than 24 hours later, and again the pursuing day. Both days helium allegedly surveyed the singer’s location from his car.

After the jarring encounter, Carpenter’s information squad combed done information tapes and discovered Applegate had been coming astir for much than a month, according to the tribunal request. “Initially, helium maintained a greater distance, which is wherefore nonstop interaction was not made astatine the time,” the papers reads. “However, Applegate’s behaviour has followed a wide and profoundly troubling escalation pattern, arsenic helium has progressively moved person and person to my home, yet culminating successful the convulsive and assertive trespass of May 23, 2026.”

Carpenter further wrote that Applegate’s behaviour had caused her to fearfulness for her information and that the incidental successful which helium attempted to participate her location “is among the astir disturbing violations of idiosyncratic information and privateness I person ever experienced.”

Carpenter requested that her sister Sarah Carpenter and her sister’s boyfriend, guitarist George Smith, beryllium added to the extortion bid arsenic good since the mates reside successful her Los Angeles home.

Los Angeles Police Det. Peter Doomanis backed up Carpenter’s claims against Applegate and said that the antheral poses a superior “and escalating” menace to the singer, and has “developed a disturbing and irrational fixation” connected the popular star.

Applegate was charged with misdemeanor transgression trespassing. He’s scheduled to look successful tribunal connected June 18.

Times unit writer Richard Winton contributed to this report.