# Jessica Alba's abduction?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 6, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-albas-abduction/253755 "2004-07-06T06:15:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-albas-abduction/253755/1 "2004-07-06T06:15:30Z")

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I was surfing around the web and I came across this celebrity biography website. There was a short biography of actress Jessica Alba which appeared to be legit. But the biography says that Alba was once abducted by a stalker fan and was literally found tied up in the guy’s trunk. I would have expected a dramatic story like that to have been widely reported but I never heard of it. More suspiciously I’ve looked and several other online bios of Alba don’t mention the incident. So is there any truth to this story or did one person imagine that Alba was abducted?

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**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-albas-abduction/253755/2 "2004-07-06T07:20:11Z")

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I hadn’t heard that, and it isn’t mentioned in ther IMDB bio, but it sounds a little bit like the plot to one of her movies, _Paranoid_.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-albas-abduction/253755/3 "2004-07-06T11:55:25Z")

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> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> I was surfing around the web and I came across this celebrity biography website. There was a short biography of actress Jessica Alba which appeared to be legit. But the biography says that Alba was once abducted by a stalker fan and was literally found tied up in the guy’s trunk. I would have expected a dramatic story like that to have been widely reported but I never heard of it. More suspiciously I’ve looked and several other online bios of Alba don’t mention the incident. So is there any truth to this story or did one person imagine that Alba was abducted?

Howzabout a cite on that website? I frequent a site that discusses bondage imagery on TV and in movies, and the “Jessica Alba kidnapped in real life” story has come up several times, but the general opinion is that it’s not true. I don’t recall offhand the basis for deciding it wasn’t true, but I’ll look into it. It may be difficult, as the site moderator has banned mention of real-life kidnappings, etc., from the site.