Model used 21 different phone numbers to stalk footballer
Staggering details have emerged in court about the actions of an Instagram model who told a footballer to “beware” her alter ego.
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She lived up to her own wicked hype.
Instagram model Orla Sloan — who calls herself “Devil Baby” — has admitted stalking England soccer star Mason Mount after a one-night stand, flooding him with calls from 21 different numbers while threatening to “destroy” him.
Sloan, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday to stalking Mount, 24, as well as Scottish national player Billy Gilmour, 21, whom she lied about getting her pregnant even though they never had sex, London Magistrates’ Court was told, according to The New York Post.
She also admitted harassing Mount’s Chelsea teammate Ben Chilwell, 26, who introduced them at a November 2020 party at his home, the Evening Standard said.
After the party, “Mr. Mount and Ms. Sloan slept together once,” prosecutor Jason Seetal told the court.
“There was communication between them for around six months, [before] Mr. Mount decided that the relationship wasn’t going to progress anymore. He decided to end contact with Ms. Sloan,” he said.
Upon informing Miss Sloan of this he has been subjected to a bombardment of messages,” the prosecutor said, according to Agence France-Presse.
“He began asking her to stop messaging him before blocking the number” — only to “receive messages from new numbers,” Seetal said.
Sloan used at least 21 different phone numbers, even goading Mount by sending a receipt for one of them, the court was told.
“I’m not buying food anymore so I can get more numbers — I will be faster than you,” she wrote.
While some messages were apologetic, others warned about Sloan’s alter-ego, “Devil Baby.”
“You and Ben [Chilwell] will be destroyed,” she wrote in one. “Beware of devil baby Mason, I can morph in a second.”
Sloan admitted stalking Mount between June and October 2022, and harassing Chilwell during the final week of the creepy campaign, making online collages while spreading phony stories about his sex life.
In the final weeks of the unholy harassment, she also turned on Gilmour, claiming online he got her pregnant, forcing her to abort it.
Those claims were “completely fictitious” and Gilmour “has never been in an intimate relationship with Ms. Sloan,” the prosecutor stated.
Gilmour, who now plays for Brighton, said he eventually had to cut off contact with friends and female acquaintances on social media to protect them from his stalker.
“Persistent contact targeted not only at myself but my friends and family has had a negative impact on me,” he said in a statement to the court, recounting he was left “extremely stressed” and struck by “feelings of panic.”
“I have not been able to sleep and have been taking sleeping tablets. It had a knock-on effect on my performance,” he said.
“For a period of time, I was consistently receiving notifications of messages from Orla, or contacted by people she was harassing. I was worried not only for myself but also those targeted by Orla.”
Sloan was released on unconditional bail after pleading guilty to stalking and harassment. She was warned she might face prison at sentencing, which was adjourned until June 20, according to AFP.
- This story originally appeared on nypost.com and has been republished with permission
Originally published as Model used 21 different phone numbers to stalk footballer
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