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Ivanka Trump's Stalker Pleads Guilty, Set to Be Released

By DNAinfo Staff on February 9, 2012 5:29pm

Ivanka Trump launches Healthy Choice's Fresh Mixers at the Grace Building on October 21, 2008 in New York City.
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MANHATTAN SURPEME COURT — An eccentric Nevada man who was obsessed with Ivanka Trump and claimed aliens told him to stalk her pleaded guilty Thursday to harassing the daughter of the famed real estate baron and is expected to be released.

Admitted stalker Justin Massler sent a barrage of electronic messages to Donald Trump's daughter and her high-powered husband Jared Kushner, owner of the New York Observer.

Massler pleaded guilty Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court to aggravated harassment and criminal contempt, a felony, for violating orders of protection that were issued to keep him out of contact from the Trump and Kushner families.

He was sentenced to six months in jail, which he already has credit for, and five years probation in exchange for his plea for the campaign of harassment, which lasted from September 2008 to March 2010, prosecutors said.

Ivanka Trump's alleged Web stalker Justin Massler leaves Manhattan Criminal Court.
Ivanka Trump's alleged Web stalker Justin Massler leaves Manhattan Criminal Court.
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Massler was also ordered to continue to undergo regular psychiatric treatment and was ordered to stay away from the victims. He was also barred from contacting them. 

Massler claimed to be in love with Ivanka Trump and vowed to one day win her away from Kushner.

"My dream in life is to marry and start a family with @IvankaTrump. I used to stalk her but psychiatrists chase me out of NYC so I can't now," he said on Twitter in a series of messages in February and March 2010.

He also expressed extreme jealousy of the Trump empire heiress's husband.

"Thanks to Kushner, there is no sun in the sky, no stars in the wind, and no moon in the trees only the empty waves of a heart without time," he said. "I was even locked in a mental hospital during your marriage, or else I was going to try to stop it."

Massler was found unfit to stand trial and was committed to a psychiatric facility about eight months ago. But recently doctors found him fit and he agreed to plead guilty in exchange for time served and other conditions. 

His attorney, George Vomvolakis, said Massler, a diagnosed schizophrenic, is doing well because he's been receiving treatment and staying on his medications.

"He's a lot more lucid and reasonable and it's all due to the fact that he's on his medication," the lawyer said, adding that Massler "should be fine" if he stays on on the drugs.

Massler was expected to be released from Rikers Island on Thursday.