Alexandra Paul went into graphic detail about a female stalker who allegedly followed her every move and made her life a “nightmare” for 13 years.
The “Baywatch” alum wrote about her unnamed stalker –– a German woman 20 years her junior — and the $60,000 she spent trying to stop her for the first time in a story published by the Ankler Wednesday.
Among other “terrifying” stories, Paul claimed that the woman ran her off the road in her car, accused her of being antisemitic and claimed to be her “secret lover.”
The woman, who died in 2024, also allegedly hit Paul’s husband, Ian Murray, with her car and falsely accused him of being a pedophile, cheating on Paul and beating Paul.
Paul said her “nightmare” began in December 2011 when the woman and her little brother rang the doorbell of her Pacific Palisades home and asked if the boy could use her bathroom, because they lived three hours away.
“Always the people pleaser, I invited them in,” she recalled. “I made small talk with her and introduced my husband Ian while the little boy used the toilet.”
Paul, 61, initially didn’t overly analyze the situation, but that took a turn when the woman left her a thank you note at her door, another note with chocolates and a third note asking if the boy could return to their home to give her a picture he’d drawn of her.
Murray subsequently called the woman and asked her to leave them alone, and she temporarily obeyed his request.
However, just nine months later, the woman found a nearby home just one block away from the couple and rented the place.
Paul recalled the escalation being “slow” and chalked up many of their first run-ins –– including at her gym, a trail in their neighborhood and a community pool –– to be her coincidences.
Things became “eerie” when Paul noticed that the woman would “always” come to the gym at the same time as her and “choose the cardio equipment next to [her].”
“I alerted the management at the gym, but there was nothing they could do,” she explained. “So I left that gym because they could not legally require her to leave.”
The former model eventually got her first restraining order against the woman after she “cornered [her] in a parking garage” and “tried to physically prevent [her] from walking away.”
Unfortunately, the order didn’t work as intended, since she allegedly broke it a staggering 29 times.
“As time went on, her attitude towards me vacillated from awkward adoration to hatred for my husband (‘If it wasn’t for Ian,’ she told a judge at one hearing, ‘Alexandra and I would be close friends’), to a certainty that I needed rescuing from him, to anger at both of us for ignoring her, to an insistence that I really was in love with her,” she shared.
The woman changed her tactic and began sending “hundreds of posters” around their neighborhood that accused Paul of being an “antisemite” and a “criminal.”
She went on to send Paul’s mother an “unhinged, nine-page letter” claiming to be her daughter’s “secret lover who needed saving from [her] violent, cheating husband.”
After “several years” of “harassment,” police officers finally arrested the woman and deported her to her native Germany, because she was in the US illegally.
However, the woman continued “pursuing” Paul and Murray abroad and even sued Paul for “trying to run her off the road and kill her” –– when actually what happened was the woman chased her in her car going “90 miles an hour” to try and “catch” her.
The woman returned to the US just two years later and fully fixated on tearing down Murray with the “monstrous allegation” that he was a pedophile and flooded his social media accounts with the unfounded accusation.
In one note to him, she wrote, “IAN you are such a douche no morals and values, spiteful and vindictive. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around what you have done to your spouse and a family. Must be really exhausting being you, especially when you’re always trying to make people believe you are something you are not.”
Shortly afterwards, the couple noticed she was sitting outside their house in a van. When Murray went to photograph the license plate, she “drove her vehicle straight at him.”
“He bounced off the hood, landing hard on the pavement, scraped and bruised, as she drove away,” she recalled.
Paul and the stalker went to court several times over the “many” restraining orders she filed and the stalker subsequently broke.
“This was not just frustrating, time-consuming and expensive,” she wrote. “It was downright creepy. I knew what the stalker would be wearing each time because it was exactly what I had worn at the previous hearing.”
Eleven years after the woman began stalking them, the couple eventually packed up, got “special new IDs” and secretly moved to a new state in a new home they rented under an LLC in 2022.
Unfortunately, the woman found them “within six weeks” and used her old tactic of spreading defamatory flyers around their new neighborhood.
The FBI quickly got involved, because she crossed state lines and arrested the woman nine months after she found them.
Within five months of her incarceration, the LA prosecutor’s office alerted Paul and Murray that the woman had been diagnosed with breast cancer and asked if the woman “could spend her last days at home” –– to which they agreed.
The stalker died on July 29, 2024 at the age of 41.
“I will never know why she picked me,” Paul admitted. “I am still working through the guilt of my initial politeness to her, which probably reinforced her delusion that I was interested in her. The stress placed on Ian and the damage done to his career because of her harassment — because of me — still haunts me.”
Paul never named the woman, but she attended a Restraining Order Hearing with a woman named Nicole Albrecht in August 2021, according to documents obtained by Page Six.
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