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The man stalking Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer

IT’S hard being the boss of a tech giant. Being in the public eye can draw unwanted attention from suspicious people.

Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer's Conference Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer's Conference Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

A MAN convicted of threatening Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now accused of sending her dozens of sexually graphic emails.

Austin police say 30-year-old Gregory Calvin King was arrested Thursday, a month after he was released from a federal prison in Texas. He’s jailed on $US100,000 bond on a charge of stalking with a previous conviction.

Gregory King was previously convicted of threatening Marissa Mayer.
Gregory King was previously convicted of threatening Marissa Mayer.

King was arrested in 2011 for threatening Mayer, then Google’s vice president, after repeatedly calling her and sending her more than 20,000 Twitter messages.

Court records show he was sentenced to supervised release, but later violated his probation and was sentenced to a year in prison. He was released last month and had been under surveillance by Yahoo since arriving in Austin.

Court records don’t list his lawyer. Yahoo declined comment Friday.

Originally published as The man stalking Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer

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