Jack Jordan, 34, who for the past two years
has been stalking Uma Thurman and harassing her family, was ordered released
from jail on Monday. He was given three years’ probation, which he will spend
with his parents in their Maryland
house.
He also must get psychiatric care and stay
away from the actress for five years. The psychiatric counselling is a
condition of his probation.
“If you repeat this conduct again, you most
certainly will go to jail,” warned Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory
Carro. A medical report showed he was making progress and he was “in partial
remission.”
Jordan
was accused of sending e-mails to Thurman’s family members, of phoning to her
house for too many times and visiting her trailer on the set of the 2006 film “My
Super Ex-Girlfriend.” The man could have been sentenced up to a year in prison.
“It's important that you understand that
your conduct is unacceptable, is criminal,” said New York Criminal Court Judge
Gregory Carro, who rejected a prosecution recommendation that Jordan return
to jail, according to Reuters.
The defendant’s lawyer said Jack Jordan truly
loves Uma Thurman and he had no intention of assaulting or threatening her.
“My greatest wish is that I had known
sooner that I was putting fear into the heart of a woman I cared very much for,
Jack Jordan, a former mental patient, said.
Uma Thurman is an Academy Award-nominated
actress who played in a large variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies
and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She rose to fame with the
films Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994), Gattaca (1997) and Kill
Bill (2003-04).