Female trucker arrested for stalking Bevery Sills

[Lou_C]

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com

Female trucker stalked Sills
By BARBARA ROSS
and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friday, May 21st, 2004

Beverly Sills is living a real-life opera.
A female truck driver from Detroit has been busted and charged with stalking the 74-year-old diva and telling her in letters and phone calls that she wants to marry her.

Victoria Glover, 39, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday after she showed up at the stage door of the Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center to ask Sills to be her bride.
Cops said Glover has been stalking Sills, who is married and has two grown children, since November, when she began calling the soprano's office at the Met.

"Sills is aware of the defendant's efforts to contact her . . . and has experienced fear for her physical safety as a result," NYPD Detective Carl Roadarmel wrote in a report.
Glover was arraigned yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of aggravated harassment, harassment and stalking. She was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and was being held without bail last night.

Glover's grandmother, Marie Glover, said she was shocked by the charges. She said her granddaughter loves opera and has some of Sills' records. "She didn't go there to harm the lady," the grandmother, who lives in Detroit, told the Daily News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/195637p-168905c.html

[DRoseDARs]

1. See what gay marriages have wrought!?!

The very seams of civil society are breaking apart! Circle the wagons!



Sorry, the timing of this story is a little questionable... :eyes:

[Lou_C]

2. I would say so

I wonder if the trucker is for real or not.

[malatesta1137]

3. Opera fans are the most bizarre kind

I am one, so I speak from personal knowledge. I work at Lincoln Center and stopped Sills a few times to say hello right where this woman was arrested. Beverly's the kindest woman. But now I'm afraid to do it again.

What made this 39 yo. think that a straight and married 74 yo. would become her bride? But again, if Bush convinced 50 million to vote for him, everything else is possible.

[pagerbear]

5. You work at Lincoln Center?

Will you marry ME?

[malatesta1137]

10. just name time and place cutie

I'll be there!

[joeybee12]

4. I saw this headline and thought this wasn't a real news story

74 years old.

An opera diva

A trucker


You can't make this kind of stuff up!

[hatrack]

6. Man, is this a great country or what?

This has got to be the most bizarre and hilarious story of the year to date.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

7. kick

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[Paranoid_Portlander]

8. I know an opera singer who scared off a mugger.

And I think you all can guess how she did it. It's a true story. She demonstrated on local TV how she sang one of her favorite operatic selections, and had the mugger begging for mercy. She was also my former employer many years ago. She had me begging for mercy on a few occasions.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Who will write the opera?

John Adams? Tobias Picker?

Title suggestions:
"MackDiva"
"Bev 'n Rev"
"Truckin' Traviata"