Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / July 2009

Diana, Are you going to claim credentials and ID yourself
or post your crap anonymously? In YOUR case
posting anonymously is a kind of fraud.
People should KNOW your history.

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Diana Napolis
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Diana Louisa Napolis
Born 1955
La Mesa, California
Nationality  American
Known for Celebrity stalking, conspiracy theorist regarding mind
control and satanic ritual abuse
Diana Louisa Napolis,[1] also known by her on-line pseudonym Karen
Curio Jones[2] or more often simply Curio,[3] is an American former
social worker. Between the late 1990s and 2000, Napolis posted a
series of pseudonymous accusations alleging that individuals skeptical
of the satanic ritual abuse moral panic were involved in a conspiracy
to cover-up the sexual abuse and murder of children. The psudonymous
poster's real life identity was discovered in 2000 to be Napolis.

In 2001, she was charged with stalking film director Steven Spielberg,
and in 2002 faced more charges for making death threats against
actress Jennifer Love Hewitt,[4] and was committed to a state hospital
until fit to stand trial. After a year in prison Napolis pled guilty
to stalking and was released on probation.

Contents [hide]
1 Satanic ritual abuse allegations
2 Celebrity harassment
2.1 Steven Spielberg
2.2 Jennifer Love Hewitt
3 Footnotes
4 External links

[edit] Satanic ritual abuse allegations
Napolis originally worked as a child protection worker for nearly ten
years (leaving the position in 1996), becoming involved in the satanic
ritual abuse (SRA) moral panic that arose in the early 1980s. By the
late 1990s the phenomenon was rejected by mainstream scholars and law
enforcement experts, but Napolis continued to believe in the existence
of SRA. Napolis held that those who had discredited the phenomenon
were themselves child abusers involved in a conspiracy to conceal
their activities from the public.[3]

Posting under the screen name "Curio", Napolis began a pattern of on-
line harassment against those she believed were involved in the
conspiracy, posting information about the individuals. Among those she
targeted were Carol Hopkins, a school administrator who was part of a
grand jury in San Diego, California that criticized social workers for
removing children from their home without reason; Michael Aquino, a
member of the Temple of Set and a lieutenant colonel in the United
States Army Reserve against whom accusations of SRA were made but
dropped as the accusations proved to be impossible; and Elizabeth
Loftus, a professor who studied memory who believed coercive
questioning techniques by poorly-trained investigators led to young
children making false allegations of child sexual abuse.[3][5] Loftus
was confronted at a New Zealand academic conference by a group of
people who accused her of conspiring to help child molesters, with
information comprised largely of the postings made by Napolis.[3]

Using public computers in internet cafes and libraries, Napolis
concealed her identity for five years while continuing to post
information on-line about those she believed involved in the
conspiracy. In 2000, private researcher Michelle Devereaux and the San
Diego State University police tracked Napolis and caught her in the
act of posting information as Curio on-line from a campus lab. No
charges were filed, but by revealing her identity, those Napolis had
harassed ceased to consider her a serious threat.[3] The story was
reported in The San Diego Union-Tribune,[2] which was added to her on-
line list of harassing parties.[4]

[edit] Celebrity harassment

[edit] Steven Spielberg
In the fall of 2001, Steven Spielberg filed a restraining order
against Napolis after she made harassing telephone calls to the
director. Napolis claimed Spielberg and his wife were part of a
satanic cult operating out of his basement that had implanted a
microchip called "soulcatcher" in her brain, an accusation to which
Spielberg replied "To state the obvious, I am not involved with any
form of manipulating Ms. Napolis's mind or body through remote
technology or otherwise." Spielberg also expressed concern for the
safety and security of his family.[1] His security team indicated they
believed Napolis to be suffering from a delusional disorder and posed
"a serious risk of violent confrontation". The judge ruled Napolis was
barred from approaching within 150 meters of Spielberg and believed
her to be a "credible threat" to the director.[6]

[edit] Jennifer Love Hewitt
On September 18, 2002, Napolis "verbally confronted" Jennifer Love
Hewitt while entering the 2002 Grammy Awards, and the subsequent day
attempted to pose as a friend of the actress to enter the premiere of
The Tuxedo. On October 10 Napolis again tried to confront Hewitt at a
filming, and e-mailed several death threats to the actress later that
month.[4] In December, 2002, Napolis was arrested for stalking and
making death threats against Hewitt, charged with six felonies,[5] and
remanded to San Diego County Jail on $500,000 bail.[4] At her hearing,
Napolis also admitted to becoming involved in a shoving match with
Hewitt's mother while confronting the actress.[4] Napolis accused the
actress and Spielberg of being part of a satanic conspiracy and using
mind controlling "cybertronic" technology to manipulate her body.
Napolis was committed to Patton State Hospital in 2003 for three years
or until fit to stand trial.[3]

After nearly a year in jail (including five months in a state
psychiatric facility where she was judged delusional but fit to stand
trial[7]), Napolis pleaded guilty to stalking on September 29, 2003,
receiving five years probation; in addition, she was required to
enroll in a counseling program, surrender all weapons and firearms,
abstain from drugs and alcohol and refrain from using computers.
Napolis was also barred from any contact with Spielberg, Hewitt and
their families for ten years and was required by the judge to continue
taking prescribed medication.[8]

[edit] Footnotes
^ a b MacKenzie, D (2002-10-20). "Spielberg Stalker in Mind-Bug Game".
Sunday Mirror. p. 16.
^ a b Sauer, M (2000-09-24). "A Web of Intrigue: The search for Curio
leads cybersleuths down a twisted path". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
http://www.konformist.com/2002/curio-tribune.htm. Retrieved on
2008-10-30.
^ a b c d e f Bocij, Paul (2004). Cyberstalking: harrassment in the
Internet age and how to protect your family. New York: Praeger
Publishers. pp. 33-35. ISBN 0-275-98118-5.
^ a b c d e Sauer, M (2002-12-31). "Stalking suspect to undergo more
psychological tests". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20021231-9999_1m31stalker.html.
Retrieved on 2008-10-30.
^ a b De Young, Mary (2004). The day care ritual abuse moral panic.
Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. pp. 234-5. ISBN 0-7864-1830-3.
^ "Spielberg wins order banning cult stalker". The Australian.
2002-10-23. pp. 12.
^ Silverman, SM (2003-09-30). "J.Love Stalker Case Ends in Guilty
Plea". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,626932,00.html.
Retrieved on 2009-02-14.
^ "Woman Who Stalked Actress Sentenced to Probation, Mental Health
Counseling". City News Service. 2003-11-05.

[edit] External links
Diana Napolis' homepage
Statement by Napolis in People v. Napolis
Michael Aquino response in Napolis v. Aquino et al.(2008).
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Napolis"
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