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An Instagram model, who calls herself Devil Baby, has admitted to stalking two Premier League soccer stars and harassing a third.
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Orla Sloan, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday to stalking Mason Mount, 24, Billy Gilmour, 21, and harassing Ben Chilwell, 26, London Magistrates’ Court was told.
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Prosecutor Jason Seetal told the court Sloan met the three, while they were playing for Chelsea, at a house party thrown by Chilwell in November 2020, the Evening Standard reported.
Seetal told court Mount and Sloan “slept together once” and communicated for six months before he decided to end their relationship.
The prosecutor said the social media model bombarded Mount with messages, sending them from up to 21 different phone numbers after he blocked her number.
Some of her messages were apologetic, Seetal told court, but others warned Mount of her alter ego, “Devil Baby.”
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“You and Ben (Chilwell) will be destroyed,” she wrote in one message. “Beware of devil baby Mason, I can morph in a second.”
Sloan admitted stalking Mount from June to October 2022, harassing Chilwell at the end of October 2022, and stalking Gilmour from September to October 2022.
Court heard she created an Instagram account, devilbaby_10, calling Mount a “criminal” while attempting to contact his colleagues, friends and family.
She then also targeted Chilwell, posting collages of Chilwell while spreading fake stories about his sex life.
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In the final weeks of her barrage of social media posts, she claimed she was pregnant with Gilmour’s child and was forced by the soccer star to have an abortion.
The prosecutor called her claims “fictitious,” adding Gilmour “has never been in an intimate relationship with Ms. Sloan.”
Gilmour said in a statement that he had to cut off contact with friends and female acquaintances on social media to protect them from his stalker.
“I have not been able to sleep and have been taking sleeping tablets. It had a knock-on effect on my performance,” he said.
