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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46. Turn in ALL firearms, because you're ACCUSED of stalking?, WOW, i'm glad I don't live in that state, because i'd have to go to jail for refusing that part of the order, it violates my right to self defense.
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Oh, thats right, this IS happening in California, lololol.

Posted at 12:28AM on Dec 15th 2007 by Leroy

47. I thought Auidioslave broke up and the Musicians all went Back to Rage Against the Machine,except Cornell

Posted at 12:32AM on Dec 15th 2007 by BLACK FLAG FOREVER

48. Susan Silver, in addition to being the ex-Mrs. Cornell, was once the manager for his former band, Soundgarden.

If a man was doing what she is alleged to be doing, nobody would find it the least bit amusing. That someone is threatening a CHILD is beyond despicable.

Posted at 12:32AM on Dec 15th 2007 by kohoutekdriver8

49. Let all the Hippie dirtbags rot, The Seattle scene was,and is fully Lame,all those bands blow, So Cal HC and Rockabilly/Psychobilly scene still are going stronger than ever. LA OC and SanDiego Counties rule SURF or DIE SKate or Die Rock or Die

Posted at 12:40AM on Dec 15th 2007 by Kalifornia uber alles

50. Anyone making threats against a child, even with a child being in the house OR with a child knowing to have a bedroom there, is a troubled person! Plain and simple, bottom line that we all ignore!

Sometimes I wonder about being a normal person. How things are hard, how times are hard, how we struggle to succeed, how my husband and I struggle to make ends meet. I wonder, but how can I wonder, if I don't have a stalker, if I don't have my husband's ex-wife (thank God he doesn't have one) trying to make a buck. I don't have a person breaking into my "normal" house in the San Gabriel Valley with a gun, I don't have a person who is armed urinating into my normal Kohler urinals! Damn, we cleaned that yesterday. We did, not a maid, not a nanny - 2 human beings, a husband and a wife did it!

Leave them alone. Let them be normal. I feel for them because they have everything that sometimes "we" wish for. But then reality hits, and their lifestyle, though grand, we do not want. They are publicized for the negative in their life. I'm sure they are good people and good parents, whom we strive to be!

If this is success, then I will struggle harder to be a normal person, a hard-working person, a mother, a wife, and a person that shouldn't be afraid of being home or coming HOME!

Happy Holidays to you all. You will surpass, you will survive, and the truth will come out.

Vaya con Dios!

L

Posted at 1:25AM on Dec 15th 2007 by LED

51. Why are my comments not being addressed.

Posted at 1:25AM on Dec 15th 2007 by LED

52. Great Frontman with superb rock styling wrapped in a creepy ccol voice. Dlckhead. Hey , I got your back , dude . Nobody messes with a detroit man with a chip on his shoulder . dlckhead.

Posted at 1:45AM on Dec 15th 2007 by nASTY bOIL

53. Chris I wish you the best always been a big fan get some more people to watch you and your family there's sick people out there that got nothing to do but make other people miserable, Peace and God bless your fan Walter















Posted at 4:06AM on Dec 15th 2007 by WalterFL

54. first, no one deserves to be stalked, harrassed, and terrorized whoever made the comment, "she's a product of ... neoliberalism and she'll get hers in the end" is very very sick

second, what's scary in most of the blogs these days is the evidence of the deep divide between conservatives and progressives that shows up almost universally. i believe our politicians have driven a wedge between us all by workding so hard to demonize each other. we need our nation back, and no one can do it but us. "we, the people." how about we stop bashing each other and work to heal our nation ?

Posted at 5:53AM on Dec 15th 2007 by wowza

55. Oh my goodness!!!
BTW , there is some witch spewing anti-american, anti-catholic garbage on the last pages of the blog "Gloria Gaynor, All Grown Up" right here on TMZ, and she's getting away with it!!! Anybody care to tell her off?

Posted at 6:15AM on Dec 15th 2007 by Sweet Raisin

56. Sure, wowza. We'll stop bashing when you stop inserting neo-liberalism into EVERY story reference pushing some kind of UNRELATED political agenda. Must be an election year, lol. The rest of your post is showing some promise, actually.

These charges are ALLEGED. Cornell or his new wife could be being stalked by anyone, as some people don't seem to care for her according to a previous poster. Or no one stalked them; they must prove it actually happened. ALLEGED.
Not the first time a man or his new wife with alleged child support issues smeared the ex-wife with questionable charges.

Posted at 2:03PM on Dec 16th 2007 by Question Vengeance

57. They seem delusional and desperate for press...they put a restraining order on a 65 year old man??? and TMZ just eats this stuff up. Wonder if the solo album bomb has anything to do with this latest stunt?

Posted at 6:56AM on Dec 17th 2007 by Give me a break

58. If you really knew the situation with this everybody would laugh at Chris and his wife. This woman has harrassed Susan for years because she jealous.It has nothing to do with money because the wife married in with more then Chris. It's has to do with that the wife will never be the woman that Susan is. If you look at all the charges thats came over these years Susan has had everyone thrown out of court and why because this 2nd wife of Chris is CRAZY. Why doesnt someone ask Chris why he doesnt pay any attention to his first child wth Susan. I feel sorry for Susan she is a great person a has a good heart. I reallyfeel sorry for their daughter she deserve to have a father not a sperm donner also his family that he doesnt even talk too!

Posted at 12:17PM on Dec 21st 2007 by REDD

59. Seems to me you are delusional.A man with a loaded gun enters your house regardless his age is against the law and as a former officer of the law he should know better. The man has been charged by the city not the Cornell's so the city of Los Angeles obviously disagrees with your view as do I and I'm sure many parents. Chris and Vicky Cornell filed a restraining order against a man with a loaded gun and you try to make this a publicity stunt. The person responsible for this publicity is the person who hired and instructed the PI to do what he did.

Posted at 12:50PM on Dec 20th 2007 by Laura

60. REDD; although I wrote quite a post, it doesn't seem to appear. Interesting twist. You however said it for me. I wonder if we shouldn't create a revolution to free Chris Cornell. This is a cry that I think bleeds through. Susan Silver is a mensch.

Posted at 6:54PM on Jan 1st 2008 by seatown

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