Serena Stalker Busted in South Florida

May 4, 2011 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
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Forty-year-old Patenema Ouedraogo has been changed with stalking Serena Williams in South Florida as police caught him walking into Serena’s gated community. An attorney for Williams said a restraining order had been obtained after Ouedraogo tried to contact Serena three times. Ouedraogo told police that he knew where she would be because he had been following her on Twitter. According to reports, Serena’s attorney, Malcolm Cunningham, got a restraining order to keep Ouedraogo away from the tennis star after he followed her to a meeting with her agent in Los Angeles in October.

Cunningham told police that Ouedraogo also pretended to be Serena’s assistant in Tampa earlier this year while she was making an appearance on the Home Shopping Network. Ouedraogo allegedly convinced security that he worked for Serena and was given access to her dressing room. Serena had Ouedraogo escorted from the building, but he waited outside for her for the remainder of the day.

 

 


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