A Court Steps In After Repeated Incidents at Sabrina Carpenter’s Home

When fame turns a home address into a target, the private fallout rarely makes the news in full. The legal filing by Sabrina Carpenter lays it out without euphemism. A Los Angeles judge has granted the singer a temporary restraining order against William Applegate, a man she says appeared at her residence uninvited on multiple occasions in recent weeks, tried to force entry, and conducted deliberate surveillance of her movements.

Carpenter’s signed declaration, obtained by Rolling Stone, describes how on May 23, Applegate allegedly went onto a neighbor’s property to get past her security fence, approached her front door, and pushed down hard on the lever. Finding it locked, he knocked, rang the doorbell, and stayed until police came and arrested him. He told her security he knew Carpenter and was expected. She called the claim “a complete lie.” Less than a day later, he was back loitering outside for hours. The day after that, he allegedly parked outside and watched the house.

The filing includes Ring camera screenshots and a request to protect two other residents, including her older sister. The judge ordered Applegate to stay at least 100 yards from Carpenter, her home, her car, and her workplace. In her statement, she wrote that the pattern of stalking and trespassing has caused “severe and ongoing emotional distress.” A detective from the LAPD stated that Applegate has developed “a disturbing and irrational fixation.”

The temporary order is in place, with a follow-up hearing set for June 17. Applegate is due in criminal court on June 18 for the trespassing arrest. What gets reported as celebrity news is, on paper, a person describing a real and ongoing threat to her life at home. The court’s decision doesn’t end the story, but for now it draws a hard line around a private space that someone tried to breach again and again.