The 36-year-old Derby man accused of harassing Rose McGowan believes the actress filed a temporary restraining order against him as a publicity stunt.
“It’s slander on her behalf. I’m not a stalker,” Louis Santo said Friday morning.
McGowan’s attorney filed the restraining order in Los Angeles Feb. 24, according to TMZ.com, the website that first reported the story.
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Derby police said they served Santo with two restraining orders Friday morning on behalf of the Threat Management Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department — one restraining order for McGowan and one for a McGowan associate.
McGowan filed the restraining order after Santo, a 1993 graduate of Emmett O’Brien Vocational Technical School, allegedly bombarded the actress and her employees with threatening messages.
Court documents show a number of Tweets Santo allegedly directed at McGowan.
“ … rose don’t hurt me! … not kidding. u will be gone,” one Tweet reads.
McGowan’s credits include “Grindhouse” and the television show “Charmed.”
When reached for comment Friday morning, Santo said he used to date McGowan in college — and that the two had lunch last week.
“She’s doing it for publicity. I wrote a movie script for her and I think she’s trying to steal it. The best way to do that is to get rid of me,” Santo said.
In the court document, McGowan said she has never met or even talked to Santo — and that he had made threats against her employees.
Santo said he heard about the restraining order when a reporter for the Associated Press called him Thursday.
“I started laughing, because I have no intentions of hurting anybody,” he said.
Santo has several Facebook accounts. One shows him having five friends — four of them are named Rose McGowan.
A court hearing on whether the temporary restraining order will become permanent is scheduled for March 11 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Santo is originally from Ansonia.
