Lifelong Los Angeles resident Christina Applegate met musician Martyn LeNoble in the mid-1990s, around the time that he was playing bass in the LA alternative rock band Porno for Pyros. Friends for more than a decade, they became a couple in 2008, got engaged in February 2010, and experienced the birth of their first and only child, Sadie, in 2011.
Within the next year, the couple received multiple threatening messages via social media. In September 2012, an unidentified X (formerly known as Twitter) user wrote to LeNoble’s account, expressing their displeasure with the musician’s choice of spouse, and that they intended to take revenge. “You stole [Christina Applegate] away from me,” the poster wrote (via TMZ). “If not for you she would be mine.” They also tweeted, “I will not accept this. I am going to kill you!!!!!!!!!” The party also wrote at LeNoble, “I’m going to bust your head in for taking her away from me!!!” and “I want to see how funny you think I am when I blow your f***ing head off!!!”
Fearing for their safety, LeNoble and Applegate contacted the Los Angeles Police Department, which was granted a search warrant to research the Twitter account of the threatening stalker. No arrests were made, however, after police failed to identify the harasser, who deleted their Twitter profile.
