Latest news with #Loveline
Fox News
28-04-2025
- Fox News
Dr Drew says drug-addicted psychotic stalker threatened to kill his wife and children
Dr. Drew Pinsky's alleged stalker threatened to kill his wife and children before being thwarted by local police. The addiction specialist spoke to Fox News Digital about his experience as an object of psychotic stalking, which is also explored in Monday's episode of "Hollywood Demons." While Dr. Drew never came face-to-face with his stalker, the man allegedly threatened his family with violence and used small claims court to harass him. There were a few close calls as the man's stalking behavior escalated, and he began to appear in person at places Dr. Drew might be. "When I was at radio one night – I was in the building, but somebody else drove out he thought was me. And he jumped on the hood of their car and started screaming wildly at them about me," the longtime host of "Loveline" told Fox News Digital. "And he's had a couple of small claims actions against me in Santa Monica that were insane … delusional. That I'd put … an implant in his tooth. It forced him to have erections. It was crazy stuff. I threw it away the first couple of times. I couldn't believe that the court would be serious about it, and I finally called the court when the third sort of summons came, and I went, 'What, do you make me come in?' They went, 'Oh, yeah, you have to. You have to come in. You're summoned.' And had I come in, I would have been face to face with this guy. And who knows what might have happened then." Even though his kids were being "actively threatened" by the stalker, Dr. Drew and his wife kept the information to themselves. The TV personality actually credited his wife with solving the whole case. "It was funny when the media was reporting on it, they said I had a cybersecurity specialist," he recalled. "That's my wife who did it all on her own, and she had what I consider to be her proudest moment." Pinsky's wife, Susan, gathered the entire digital footprint the stalker had created and presented it to the local police: "She laid out everything she had uncovered. It's a long story. I mean, first the guy was stalking me on MySpace, then through the courts, and then sort of kind of around in person, around the radio station and then this elaborate website that had all kinds of threats and stuff that we found." Dr. Drew recalled his wife telling the Pasadena police officer, "You see, he says he's going to come to our house. He has a map. He's going to kill my children and eat them in front of me. You need to get this guy. Do you understand?" "She goes, 'I'm not afraid to die. If you don't get him, I will. I'm not afraid to die.' And the cops are like, 'Calm down, Mrs. Pinsky. We got this.' But it was still her proudest moment, in my opinion." At the time, Pinsky had a "pretty clean sense" the stalker suffered from "amphetamine-induced psychosis." "L.A. has a very effective department within the DEA of prosecuting stalkers. And I was with that team and I said, 'Look, this is psychotic stalking, and this is a meth addict. Get him treatment for his meth addiction. He'll have to go away. He'll have to be in treatment for a long period of time.' And he went into a dual diagnosis program for two years." "And guess what? He was better afterward, a lot better. And he's not been re-stalking; treatment works." Monday's "Hollywood Demons" episode also touched on some other celebrities who have been stalked: Justin Bieber, Sandra Bullock and Ashanti. Ashanti's alleged stalker sent messages to the musician's mother. "Some of the messages were about just wanting to be with me and meant to be together," she recalled during the episode. "So he was sending lewd photos," Ashanti revealed. "It makes you feel a little scared. This is like another line being crossed." The R&B singer's stalker was convicted twice on charges of stalking and harassing Ashanti and her family. Bieber has had multiple stalkers, including a New Mexico man and his nephew who plotted to murder and castrate the pop singer in 2013. The plan began after a man in prison attempted to contact Bieber with no response. He then recruited his nephew and another man to drive to the "Love Yourself" singer's home and castrate him with garden shears before murdering him, according to reports. Bullock hid in her closet after a man, who had been stalking her for days in 2014, successfully broke into her home. "The fact that Joshua Corbett actually scaled a wall, made it through security, came into the house really shows potential for serious consequences," Dr. Drew said during the episode. Corbett, who believed Bullock was his wife, carried a notebook that featured photos of the actress along with poems he had written and a love letter. "The fact that Joshua Corbett actually believed he was married to Sandra, that's erotomania." Erotomania is a mental health condition that occurs when someone has a delusional belief that a person is intensely in love with them without any evidence to prove it. "On one hand, he claims he's married to Sandra Bullock, on the other hand, he's going to violently sexually violate her," Dr. Drew said. "This is like Unabomber stuff. This is severe psychosis. It's delusional. But this really shows that when adulation or adoration flips into 'I want to be with that person' or 'I believe that person wants to be with me,' we're in big trouble."
New York Times
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Jed the Fish, Quirky Pioneer of Los Angeles Radio, Dies at 69
Jed Gould, the influential Los Angeles disc jockey known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Offspring at the groundbreaking New Wave and alternative rock station KROQ-FM in the 1980s and '90s, died on April 14 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 69. The cause was an aggressive form of small-cell lung cancer, Rudy Koerner, a close friend, said. Mr. Gould was never a cigarette smoker, he added, and before he was diagnosed last month, he had thought his recent violent coughing fits were related to the Los Angeles wildfires. For decades, Mr. Gould served as a trusted musical savant — and drive-time friend — to young Angelenos, particularly members of Generation X. He also influenced future broadcasting stars. In a social media post after Mr. Gould's death, Jimmy Kimmel, who worked on the morning show at KROQ early in his career, described him as 'a legend.' On his podcast, Mr. Kimmel's old sidekick on 'The Man Show,' Adam Carolla, a former host of the relationship show 'Loveline' on KROQ, called Mr. Gould 'an icon.' With his boyish energy, free-ranging musical tastes and maniacal cackle, Mr. Gould helped lead a radio revolution at the maverick KROQ, based in Pasadena, starting in the late 1970s. At a time when FM rock stations were dominated by hyper-produced corporate juggernauts like Styx and Foreigner, KROQ became a sensation for its 'Roq of the '80s' format, which shimmered with fresh sounds from New Wave bands like Talking Heads and Devo, synth-pop groups like the Human League and Spandau Ballet, and local heroes like X and the Go-Go's. 'Jeddum Fishum,' as he sometimes referred to himself, and his fellow KROQ jocks brought a sense of anarchy to the airwaves, cracking irreverent jokes and dropping in audio snippets — like deadpan Jack Webb lines from 'Dragnet' — at well-timed moments in the middle of songs, often with hilarious results. Mr. Gould and his colleagues were in the 'right place at the right time,' he wrote on LinkedIn. 'We were leading the way but had no idea.' Following a broadcasting philosophy that he called 'consistent inconsistency,' Mr. Gould manned the afternoon slot at the station. His droll humor and his knack for musical surprises served as a needed tonic for a captive audience creeping along sclerotic freeways for hours that felt more like days. 'It took me years of imitation before I learned the simplicity of being myself on the air,' he wrote. 'Turns out this was a wacky position to take, but people seem to like the honesty behind it.' That prime post-lunch slot gave Mr. Gould a powerful platform for promoting new acts and hotly anticipated releases. 'Because Jed was on from 2P to 6P, immediately following our music meeting, he would often do the honors of world-premiering new music,' Andy Schuon, a former KROQ program director, wrote in a tribute on LinkedIn. In a social media post, Noodles, the guitarist for the Southern California punk-pop band the Offspring, wrote that Jed the Fish was the first D.J. to play the band's 1994 breakout hit, 'Come Out and Play,' 'which changed our band's trajectory in ways we never thought possible.' With a personality that was 'insane in all the best ways,' as Noodles put it, Mr. Gould was all too willing to defy convention. During a recent video tribute by former KROQ colleagues, Mr. Schuon recalled listening to Jed the Fish for more than an hour while driving to the office and noticing that he did not once mention the station's call letters, a standard practice for D.J.s that was crucial for ratings. When Mr. Schuon pressed him on the apparent oversight, Mr. Gould responded: 'Everyone knows if I'm on the station, it must be KROQ. Who else would hire me?' Edwin Fish Gould III was born on July 15, 1955, in Los Angeles, to Edwin Fish Gould Jr., a salesman for a valve-and-fittings company, and Joan (Hall) Gould. He grew up in the beach communities of Orange County before his family moved to Casa Grande, Ariz. In high school, he hosted a local radio program for teenagers until he was fired for reading George Carlin's famous 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' monologue on the air. He graduated from high school in 1973 and enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he received a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. After college, he held a series of jobs at Los Angeles-area radio stations before landing a position at KROQ in 1978. His application consisted of a crude punk-style pink flyer that featured a picture of himself in a white leotard scrunched up in a chair and an offer to work '30 hours per week or less 90 day max FUR FREE!' It was not long before he was helping to orchestrate the chaos in the studio. In a 2001 oral history of the station, he said that for an outsider to ask about the early history of KROQ would be like saying, ''Tell me about Vietnam' or 'Tell me about the French Revolution.' No one will ever know all of it.' As it turned out, there was plenty about Mr. Gould that his listeners did not know. At one point in the mid-1980s, he said in the oral history, he left KROQ after he was kicked out of the Betty Ford Center for stealing a car to buy drugs. He returned, but he was pulled off the air again when he was arrested on suspicion of possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia in March 1989. After more than two months in a detox center, he once again assumed his spot at the microphone. 'In the old days, I'd just shoot a bunch of dope, go on the air and do anything,' he said in an interview the next year with The Los Angeles Times, while discussing his newfound commitment to sobriety. 'I'd developed my crazy style as a result of getting high. But now it comes out of being me. I'm more clearheaded and more focused.' Mr. Gould worked at KROQ until 2012 and later moved to two other local stations, KCSN-FM and KLOS-FM. In 2019, he joined the 'Roq of the '80s' Sunday night show on KROQ's HD2 station. He is survived by a half brother, Tony Chatterton. Throughout his career, Mr. Gould strove to keep the spirit of the music alive in his work behind the microphone. 'When a DJ is playing music we expect you to dance to, I think it's important for the DJ to dance,' he wrote on his professional site in 2018. 'It's not that I'm a lithe and dainty dancer,' he added. 'No one who incorporates a golf swing into their dance moves should be considered dainty. I just believe anyone in charge of the music should move with it.'
