2000.05.18 - NME - Axl Rose In 'Stalker' Drama

AXL ROSE IN ‘STALKER’ DRAMA

Police in Los Angeles have arrested a woman who was already subject to a restraining order involving the Guns N' Roses singer...

A suspected stalker has been arrested after being found in Guns N’ Roses singer AXL ROSE‘s MALIBU home.

Police in Los Angeles arrested 39-year-old Karen McNeil on Tuesday night (May 16), charged her with stalking the star, and held her on $150,000 bail, according to American news station NBC.

Deputy Boris Nikolof of LA Country Sheriff Department said: “Rose called the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff Station to report that a stalker was trying to enter his property.” He added that Deputies went to the area and arrested McNeil, who was subject to a restraining order involving Rose. There are uncomfirmed reports that McNeil was in Rose‘s bed when she was found by police.

Deputy Nikolof confirmed that McNeil was a suspect in several prior stalking cases involving the singer.

Meanwhile, speculation has been raging in the US this week that the original line-up of Guns N’ Roses are to reform. Sources in the States claim that guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, guitarist Izzy Stradlin and drummer Stephen Adler have been rehearsing in a secret location in Phoenix, Arizona.

The band’s management company have refuted the rumours and say a new record from G N’R, featuring Axl Rose, Paul Tobias (aka Paul Huge) on guitar and keyboard player Dizzy Reid, reportedly titled ‘Chinese Democracy’, will be released “very soon”.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/guns-n-roses-370-1390899

Short notice in The Age, May 26, 2000 about the reunion rumours also reported in the NME article:

Speculation is rife in the US that the original lineup of Guns ’n’ Roses has reformed. Rumor has it that guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, guitarist Izzy Stradlin and drummer Stephen Adler have been rehearsing in a secret location in Phoenix, Arizona. The band’s management company has refuted the rumors, however, saying a record from the new lineup of G'n'R, entitled Chinese Democracy, will be released “very soon".