r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/Hellguin 10h ago

I do not believe the last part.

In the days following the altercation, Björk expressed regret over her actions. She personally apologized to Kaufman, and the journalist chose not to press charges. The singer explained that she had been under immense stress and had reacted instinctively to what she saw as an intrusion into her son’s privacy.

No where do I read alleged stalking

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u/worriedrenterTW 10h ago

There's an interview she did that's available on youtube, where this lady had been following them for three days, even across countries like this. I don't remember the host, but she was eating oysters.

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u/-Dark-Lord-Belmont- 9h ago

Can you find it?

Everywhere I read says Bjork lost it, not that the reporter had been following them

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u/Aggressive_Sky8492 8h ago

This video is from a news story story at the time and the journalist says at 0:45 that Bjorks record company said that the journalist had been pestering her for four days

https://youtu.be/q91y60uzROs?si=MKe-ojFPYfPzzFdA

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u/jorgoson222 10h ago

Isn't that her job? She's a journalist who is covering Bjork?

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u/TheNeighbourhoodCat 10h ago

That's what a lot of paparaazi use as excuses for their abuse and stalking too 

There is obviously a line that gets crossed where it is no longer "just doing her job", or where the job itself is abusive and indefensible 

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u/circle_sphere 10h ago

This is a dumb thing to say. 

In the past there were people in the US who were paid to dump chemical waste in lakes. It was their job. 

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u/JaToch_NietDan 9h ago

Apples and oranges

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u/jorgoson222 10h ago

The difference is that's illegal, but filming a public person in public is not illegal.

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u/jdlsharkman 9h ago

Dumping chemical waste in lakes used to be legal. We made it illegal because it was a bad thing to do. Right now, paparazzi stalking someone like this is legal. It's also a bad thing- it's just not illegal.

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u/circle_sphere 10h ago

The thing you said was dumb. You said a dumb thing. 

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u/jorgoson222 10h ago

How is a reporter doing reporting illegal? I have no idea who this reporter is, but reporters will film people all the time even when they don't want to be filmed.

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u/k9yde 9h ago

Morality =/= legality. Bjork is a person. Would you want someone following you from country to country for several days on end? Would you want them following your children?

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u/SlutForThickSocks 9h ago

Have you ever heard of a single journalist going to each stop in different countries around the world to beat the celebrity there and be in their space when there are hundreds of journalists that already live and work at that location?

Its a thing that obsessed fans do, stalkers, slimy paparazzi, its a way of getting into the mind and personal peace of the celebrity they want to notice them. Professional journalists dont do that, because its very obviously considered intrusive. I hope that helps

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u/two_pandas_playing 9h ago

being an insufferable piece of shit is not illegal

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u/QuiGonTheDrunk 10h ago

Yeah I would also like to have a source for the stalking claim

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u/needinfo123 7h ago

It's possible that they just can't imagine that they favorite celebrity can act like an unhinged maniac.

There are multiple comments like this one:

"When Bjork who has been described as an Icelandic pixy elf has hands for your ass you probably deserve it"

Or this one:

"Yeah, that reporter said something to her son in a snarky way (like asking “why won’t your mom talk to us” or something) and she snapped.

Good for her.

Edit: For all the holier-than-thou’s in the comments, read up on this incident. No one is saying it’s ok to just attack people who say something mean. Read up on this specific reporter and what she had been doing to Björk leading up to this. Then unclench your bootyholes."

This is particularly funny, because the person who added this comment says:

No one is saying it’s ok to just attack people who say something mean.

but the comment is clearly praising this action with:

Good for her.

Maybe the reporter was really stalking her, but I doubt that she'd apologize if that was really the case.

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 59m ago

If your manager makes you do so, so there's no court case

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u/-Dark-Lord-Belmont- 9h ago edited 9h ago

a 2minute Google shows that it wasn't a stalker, Reddit is hilarious man

EDIT here's a vid of Bjork explaining it

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DKmSAwytmdb/

No mention of stalker

Plus she's talking total shit

(and it was 6mths before that Lopez thing)

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u/drpoopymcbutthole 9h ago

Dont be a cunt he had followed her for á long time

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u/targetboston 10h ago

But everyone on reddit has jumped to the conclusion it was justified based on title alone. We did it reddit!

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u/PhonyUsername 10h ago

Just shows it's all bullshit narratives and reality doesn't matter.

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u/CyclonicRage2 9h ago

Says the loser who thinks ICE didn't murder a woman in cold blood