A lady accused of harassing Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner with pleas for intercourse and different crude solutions earlier than exhibiting up at his Silicon Valley dwelling in a threatening method final October agreed to steer clear of him for the following three years beneath an settlement permitted Tuesday.
Julie Lee Choi consented to the deal negotiated with Apple throughout an look in Santa Clara County Superior Courtroom. Cook dinner, Apple’s CEO for the previous decade, wasn’t current on the continuing held in San Jose, California.
Choi, 45, declined to remark after the listening to whereas angrily waving off two reporters taking her image exterior the courthouse. An Apple lawyer additionally declined to debate the stipulation.
The courtroom order requires Choi to chorus from coming inside 200 yards of Cook dinner through the subsequent three years and prohibits her from making an attempt to speak with him by means of any digital means, together with on Twitter accounts or emails. If she violates the phrases, Choi may face legal expenses and probably imprisoned.
The weird case traces again to late 2020 when Choi started emailing Cook dinner begging him to have intercourse together with her and attaching photos of handguns that she insisted he had made her purchase, in keeping with proof that Apple submitted to acquire a short lived restraining order in opposition to her in January. These paperwork additionally revealed Choi had arrange a collection of bogus firms making an attempt to attach her to Cook dinner, typically itemizing an Apple workplace because the headquarters.
“I am unable to dwell like this anymore,” Choi wrote in a single e mail to Cook dinner despatched from an iPhone. “I need intercourse with you, please, please.”
Cook dinner has publicly stated he’s a homosexual man, however even after Choi acknowledges figuring out that her entreaties to him continued. “Tim, if we’re destined for our lives, any circumstance we are able to meet one another,” Choi wrote in a December e mail that additionally advised him the place she was staying in San Jose at the moment.
Apple took authorized motion after Choi advised him final September that she supposed to use to turn out to be his “roommate” at his condominium positioned in Palo Alto, California — about 15 miles from Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
In October, Choi confirmed up exterior Cook dinner’s dwelling on two separate actions and warned she “may get violent,” in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
Then, in one other December e mail, Choi advised Cook dinner she would forgive him for $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,800 crore) in money.
Just a few weeks after that, Apple sought its momentary restraining order in a request that contended Choi “could also be armed” and “intends to return to Apple’s CEO residence or find him in any other case within the close to future.” Choi had been dwelling in McLean, Virginia earlier than she started shadowing Cook dinner in Silicon Valley.
Apple paid greater than $630,000 (roughly Rs. 5 crore) for safety measures designed to guard Cook dinner final yr, in keeping with a required firm disclosure to shareholders.
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