Jennifer Aniston files restraining order against stalker

Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston was left fearing for her life after being stalked by a man who claimed that she had asked him to be the father of her children.

The <I>Friends</i> star had to file a restraining order against Jason Peyton alleging that he embarked on an "aggressive pattern of harassment", reported Los Angeles Times.

"Mr Peyton has aggressively sought to have personal contact with me and integrate himself into my life...His ongoing, ever-increasing, aggressive and harassing conduct are extremely distressing. I fear for my personal safety and that of those around me," the actress stated in a signed court declaration.




The 41-year-old filed the restraining order against Peyton after he drove across the US on a mission to track her down in Los Angeles.

Court documents claim that cops found the 24-year-old  sitting in his car on July 15 this year, waiting for the actress with a sharp tool and a roll of duct tape.

"Mr Peyton had, among other things, a sharp object, a bag, a roll of duct tape, a variety of DVDs of movies in which Aniston appears, and a notebook and various scraps of loose paper on which he wrote a variety of messages to Aniston," the legal papers reveal.

He had even scratched <I>I love Jennifer Aniston</i> down the side and along the bonnet of his car and was carrying a list of potential baby names for the children he intended to father with Aniston.

Peyton, who was arrested and placed on a psychiatric hold, is obsessed with Aniston.

Police caught up with him after he left a note for his father on June 25 in Pennsylvania, stating he was going to California. His father realised he was going to find Aniston and alerted the police.

According to the court papers, he has attempted suicide four times and has physically battered and attacked his own mother on numerous occasions.

He also allegedly stalked and harassed a female neighbour who he is believed to have planned to abduct, resulting in "multiple police holds and mental evaluations and ultimately several arrests".