Celebrity Justice
Audioslave Singer Allegedly Stalked By Man With Gun

TMZ has obtained court documents outlining a terrifying series of events that have left former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell and his family in terror. Cornell is seeking a restraining order against a man who they say was hired to do the dirty work of the woman to whom Cornell was once married.
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According to documents, filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, Cornell claims his ex-wife, Seattle music legend Susan Silver, has sent his family "numerous threatening and terrifying death threats." According to the docs, Silver has even threatened to harm Chris' two-year-old son. It has become so terrifying LAPD's Threat Management Unit has taken the case.

According to the documents, Silver hired Mathew Turner, an ex-sheriff's deputy who caries a concealed weapon, "to harass the Cornell family, under the guise of being a process server." The legal papers go on: "Mr. Turner has continually harassed, frightened and stalked the Cornell family at all hours of the day and night, and even broke into their home, wandered from room to room and urinated in their home." Cornell's mega-lawyer, Marty Singer, alleges that Turner lingered inside the Cornell family home and refused to leave.

The Cornell family is asking a judge to order Turner to stay at least 100 yards away from them.




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16. Cornell/Vedder CD? Please do tell..... more info please

Posted at 11:49PM on Dec 13th 2007 by TxTrophyWife

17. to #5@7:10PM - Lol, quit attempting (and badly) to segueway ever every idiotic TMZ story into your political agenda. You're making all Repubs everywhere look bad.

Posted at 12:19AM on Dec 14th 2007 by Not a Sheeple

18. its called 'Temple of the Dog'
recorded with pearl jam right before PJ was formed.

Posted at 12:24AM on Dec 14th 2007 by foorocker

19. Her eyes are going to pop out of her gourd and her eyebrows are held up by fishing line....

Posted at 1:22AM on Dec 14th 2007 by Just saying

20. He is a nice guy. The other day, I got a story about him on tallmeet , then like him immediatlly. It seems that there is many informations about him there.

Posted at 2:03AM on Dec 14th 2007 by maggieliu

21. This Susan sounds like she needs a psyche evaluation. You don't do that.

On a lighter note, Chris is very handsome. I wish I could meet his twin brother (if he had one) - ha..ha....

Posted at 10:32AM on Dec 14th 2007 by SP

22. Listen, not that Susan should go all Betty Broderick on him but she has a child with him too, after years of infertility, that he is outright ignoring. She's fighting for their daughter for the support he is witholding. the whole thing has been going on a long time.

Posted at 9:03AM on Dec 14th 2007 by twinkle66

23. They should lock her up just for being a radical Seattle music legend. Whatever that means.

BTW I hate the new format.

Posted at 10:24AM on Dec 14th 2007 by R.Zimmerman

24. in response to Natalie:

Maybe he is thinking what a lot of current rockstars are thinking, that perhaps its not such a good idea to marry the hot playboy stripper model and instead marry the one who is loyal to them and is not with them for the money. The days of rockstars marrying porn stars or Playboy models or stippers is over. Thankfully these guys smarted up and realized those types of "women" are good for one thing but for a lifetime committment and children perhaps its not such a good idea.

Posted at 11:27AM on Dec 14th 2007 by Kate

25. Good Lord!! Just another crazy-bitch ex-wife who can't stand that her ex has moved on to better things. I'd say she's typical, but this one's going to extremes.

And frankly, I don't care how behind he may or may not be on another child support order. That is NOT a reason to have a man repeatedly break into another woman's home, threaten her, her mother and her TWO AND THREE YEAR OLD CHILDREN. What does threatening woman and children have to do with the relationship between Chris Cornell and his ex-psycho??? How on earth could anyone think ANYTHING justifies threatening preschool children??? If she wants child support, that's what the court system is for, and it's not like it's not already geared in the ex-psycho's favor!

Posted at 1:07PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Ava

26. So Chris Cornell's a deadbeat dad according to 9:03AM? That's a WHOLE other kettle of fish.
I guess he's decided a good defense is a good offense. What a withholding rat.

Posted at 1:26PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Emergency Shelter for Moms and Kids

27. I guess the judge will hear about no money for Silver's child now with this case, and perhaps force him to pay up as well as slap her too if there's any truth to this.

Posted at 1:33PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Emergency Shelter for Moms and Kids

28. People, that would be why I signed my name as Temple of the Dog....that is the name of the band....but yes the CD was awesome and Cornell sounds great on it. Vedder, not so much. TMZ, the new format SUCKS.

Posted at 2:01PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Temple of the Dog

29. This is only an allegation. Who knows if she really hired him. Wait until the facts come out.

Posted at 10:19PM on Dec 14th 2007 by scarlett

30. Susan Silver is not serving him for lack of child support. She's serving him because she has sued him for his guitars that she's holding from him. This has nothing to with child support so where are you getting your information from?
The lawsuit itself is crazy in the first place. Who sues someone for their guitars? Does she even play guitar? She should give them back and get on with her life.

Hey didn't she also keep his grammy awards and some other stuff?
My God, woman, move on!

Posted at 7:12PM on Dec 14th 2007 by fluttergirl

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