My firm makes, among other things, software for tracking crazies for private security companies. It’s an outgrowth of software for police intel divisions to track “persons of interest”.
Pretty much every brand name famous person in show biz, big biz, or politics hires one of a handful of security companies to watch over them. The uber wealthy-and-famous often have their own such company.
These companies’ services are sort of a combo of physical security, bodyguards, concierge to government (e.g. get out of jail, get a visa, squash a news story, etc.), and most significantly for this thread, private detective / intelligence agency services.
Suffice it to say that if you have instant national name recognition, you have dozens, if not hundreds, of crazies who email or fax you daily or at least weekly. And the security firm is tracking all that, building out a dossier on each nutcase, and watching them carefully for signs that the long rambling emails are starting to get more agitated.
The volume flat amazed me when we moved into this line of work.
And a surprising percentage of nutcases have sex deeply woven into their weirdness. Regardless of the genders of the nut & the celeb or the apparent homo / hetero leanings of either. For entertainers who’s stock in trade includes being attractive this sorta goes with the territory. But for an overweight balding senator or CEO to be getting weird sexually explicit email daily from some 30 year old guy who claims to be hetero & really does have a wife & a kid? That’s some freaky shit.
The point of this semi-digression is there is a rich vein of very confused people out there. Any bad guy who achieves even local temporary celeb status is gonna get a few hits from the sediment at the bottom of the mental health pool.