Article in Russian published by People.Onliner.by (Belarus) 18.09.2024
By Egor Korytko
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Alexander Rybak said that he has been suffering from stalking for two years. A former
colleague attacks the singer and threatens his friends
The winner of Eurovision 2009, Norwegian-Belarusian singer Alexander Rybak got into a story that is very reminiscent of the plot of the hit TV series “Olenyonok” (Baby Reindeer)
The musician posted two videos on Instagram, in which he claims that he has been stalked by a mentally ill woman for about two years. During this time, the star had to face the full range of a stalker: Attacks near his home, blackmail, threats, rumors and thousands of messages from fake accounts.
How did it all start?
At the end of September last year, videos of 25-year-old Eugenia (Jane) Skripnik, an American-Moldovan producer, began appearing on TikTok, in which the girl accused Rybak
of harassment.
According to her, the singer filmed an intimate video with her and threatened to publish it. This allegedly happened in April 2023, when Skripnik came to his home to
discuss the details of organizing a certain event.
The girl said that she met Rybak 12 years ago, then worked together on a video and crossed paths in PR.
Now Evgenias account, from which the videos were published, is made private.
In other videos, Skripnik has screenshots of correspondence with Rybak, where he says that “the police of Russia, Belarus and Moldova are already aware of her” and mentions “a video on his couch.” It is unknown whether these messages are fake
Alexander responded in early October 2023. On social media, the singer claimed that the author of the videos was a stalker who had been stalking him for about a year. The stalking really took a serious turn in January 2023.
All this time, Rybak was afraid that his public statements on this matter could make the girl harm herself or someone else, but after those TikToks, he decided to tell it like it is.
The singer denied all the accusations and called the stalker “mentally ill”
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Rybak did not name the girl, but he did post a photo (of Skripnik), taken, according to him, at the moment when the stalker climbed into his garage at night.
In the same post, he posted screenshots from surveillance cameras near his house, which show the girl sitting on the sidewalk.
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Alexander also claims that the stalker sent him more than 8 thousand messages from fake accounts.
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The singer reported the girl to the police – in June 2023, the court banned her from approaching Rybak; she tried to challenge the ban three times.
“We were colleagues and even friends before she became obsessed with me and began emotional and physical harassment. I never threatened her in any way. I just said that I would contact the police (which I did)” Rybak clarifies.
What’s happening now?
In new videos, Alexander said that since he spoke out about the harassment, the situation has not improved.
“I’ve faced manipulation, stalking, bomb threats at my concerts, hacking of accounts. She followed me in different states, physically threatened me, sexually and emotionally harassed me and stalked my neighbors” the singer says.
Alexander still does not name the stalker, but claims that she created a network of thousands of accounts to spread rumors about him, and also allegedly distributed fake
photos of other naked women on his behalf.
Court orders did not help – the girl simply ignores them. Rybak himself also tried to abstract himself from this whole story, but then the stalker switched to his friends and colleagues. In his posts, the singer tagged fifteen people who in one way or another suffered from the stalker’s actions.
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One of them, 15-year-old Canadian artist Desi G, also published stories in which she showed a whole stack of printed letters from Rybak’s stalker. The singer’s managers had already tried to solve the problem by meeting with the stalker, but she “sprayed gas in their faces from a can.”
TikToker Veronica Frey and PR agent Lauren Beeching also spoke about clashes with the girl – they received threats about spreading of accusations of pedophilia, which were eventually carried out. As a result, according to Beeching, she had to send hundreds of letters of apology to her business partners.
All these events are unfolding in the USA, where Rybak has been living recently. Now the singer has decided to move out of his house in Los Angeles and return to Norway, where the stalker, in theory, should not get to him at least physically (previous reports indicated that the girl was under a written undertaking not to leave).
In the videos, the singer specifically asked fans not to provoke the stalker in any way – they say that she is only waiting for such mass attention.
Evgenia Skripnik has not yet publicly responded to Rybak’s new statements – at least, her known and accessible accounts are silent on this topic. In her last published video in November 2023, she said that Rybak “lost another case against her in court.”.
The video with the hashtag #JusticeForJane was reposted by the TikTok account imyouropheliac, allegedly belonging to someone who supports the girl. But many things indicate that this is one of Evgenia’s fake profiles.
