When the judge allowed her a chance to speak before the sentencing, she managed to compose herself to say: 'I've done nothing wrong, you're making a mistake.' She was then led away in handcuffs from the Manhattan court.
Sabourin, 41, was found guilty of aggravated harassment, stalking and attempted criminal contempt among 23 other counts. She was found guilty of all of them.
She was told to have no contact with Baldwin or his family for five years and received a $250 fine.
Genevieve Sabourin (at rear) is escorted into
Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday ahead of her sentencing for
stalking Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin, pictured outside court in
Manhattan on Tuesday, was not present today for the sentencing of his
stalker Genevieve Sabourin
The
French-Canadian, bit-part actress stood before a packed courtroom on
Thursday dressed in black after being brought from her jail cell.
Neither Alec Baldwin, 55, or his wife Hilaria were present in court for sentencing today.
As he sentenced Sabourin, Judge Mandelbaum, exasperated after she had turned his courtroom into a circus over the previous two days sternly read out his verdict.
'You had no right to continue communications or pursue contact you knew to be unwanted and unwelcome,' said Madelbaum.
'Your relentless and escalating campaign of threats and in person appearances in private spaces served at a minimum to harass annoy and alarm Mr. Baldwin.'
The judge went on to say that the stalker 'conduct throughout this trial demonstrated an utter lack of respect of the law and the legal system.
'The rules of civil society apply to you as well as everyone else,' Mandelbaum said.
The judge also made reference to Sabourin's alleged relationship with Mr Baldwin but said that regardless of what had happened in the past, it did not explain her actions afterwards.
The blond actress was sentenced to 180 days plus the 30 days she received on Wednesday for contempt of court.
As she was brought into the courtroom today, Sabourin had to be calmed down as she loudly asked who was taking care of her dog.
Once she was reassured that her pet was in safe hands by her lawyer, she became more subdued.
Neither Alec Baldwin, 55, or his wife Hilaria were present in court for sentencing today.
As he sentenced Sabourin, Judge Mandelbaum, exasperated after she had turned his courtroom into a circus over the previous two days sternly read out his verdict.
'You had no right to continue communications or pursue contact you knew to be unwanted and unwelcome,' said Madelbaum.
'Your relentless and escalating campaign of threats and in person appearances in private spaces served at a minimum to harass annoy and alarm Mr. Baldwin.'
The judge went on to say that the stalker 'conduct throughout this trial demonstrated an utter lack of respect of the law and the legal system.
'The rules of civil society apply to you as well as everyone else,' Mandelbaum said.
The judge also made reference to Sabourin's alleged relationship with Mr Baldwin but said that regardless of what had happened in the past, it did not explain her actions afterwards.
The blond actress was sentenced to 180 days plus the 30 days she received on Wednesday for contempt of court.
As she was brought into the courtroom today, Sabourin had to be calmed down as she loudly asked who was taking care of her dog.
Once she was reassured that her pet was in safe hands by her lawyer, she became more subdued.
Yesterday, Judge Mandelbaum jailed Sabourin for 30 days for contempt of court after finally losing patience over a series of outbursts during Baldwin's testimony and legal arguments.
Sabourin, 41, was later led into court in handcuffs to take the stand where she told a packed court room how Alec Baldwin allegedly seduced her with the promise 'of the night of your life' then had sex with her only to leave in the morning before she woke up.
She said that after an evening of wining and dining her in Manhattan in February 2010, Baldwin invited himself to her hotel room and 'when he kissed me, it confirmed we were very compatible and so we made love'.
Sabourin said that Baldwin, 55, told her that he 'wanted to wake up every morning next to her and make her an omelet every day for the rest of her life'.
Sabourin said that Baldwin, 55, told her that he
'wanted to wake up every morning next to her and make her an omelet
every day for the rest of her life', and broke down in tears as she
exclaimed, 'I love omelets, I don't know how he knew that.'
She broke down in tears as she recalled the memory and exclaimed: 'I love omelets, I don't know how he knew that.'
The French-Canadian actress also described a kinky episode of phone-sex - which she said she had never done before - in which the '30 Rock' star asked what she was wearing and told her to strip off, saying he had just taken off his tuxedo and was talking to her naked.
In earlier testimony, Sabourin claimed that Alec Baldwin first came onto her while he was still married to Kim Basinger and that he took her on a flirtatious dinner date in 2010 which she described as 'more than romantic, it was perfect'.
After taking her on a star-studded backstage tour of a Broadway show - all the while holding her hand - Sabourin said that they went for dinner to Elio's on the Upper East Side.
'Victim of harassment': Alec Baldwin's wife
Hilaria, pictured in New York on Wednesday, was 'terrorized' by Sabourin
a judge said on Thursday
She said that Baldwin did not drink while they ate and told her that he had been in AA for the past 25-years.
After the meal his driver took her back to the exclusive Lowell hotel in Manhattan where he had allegedly arranged for her to stay and asked if he could 'come upstairs for one more drink of water'
It was in her room that they began to kiss, 'which confirmed we were very compatible and so we made love', Sabourin recalled.
After the meal his driver took her back to the exclusive Lowell hotel in Manhattan where he had allegedly arranged for her to stay and asked if he could 'come upstairs for one more drink of water'
It was in her room that they began to kiss, 'which confirmed we were very compatible and so we made love', Sabourin recalled.
'He kissed me, which confirmed we were very compatible and so we made love.' - Genevieve Sabourin on her night of passion with Alec Baldwin in February 2010
The
bit-part actress revealed that Baldwin told her he was going to run for
public office so could never move to Canada with her, which confirms the long-standing rumor that the 'Hunt
for Red October' actor has considered the possibility of a mayoral tilt in New York.In one particularly upsetting piece of testimony for Sabourin, she explained how 'professional charmer' Baldwin expressed his desire to spend quality time with her and to make her his favorite breakfast every morning.
'This guy knows what to say to me because he makes millions of dollars charming women on screen,' said Sabourin as she burst out crying.
Exit: Alex Baldwin leaves his home the day after
his dramatic testimony at the trial of his stalker Genevieve Sabourin
in which he denied ever having sexual relations with the Canadian
actress
Breaking down in tears as she recalled this, Sabourin said that Baldwin told her he was an expert at making omelets and would like to make her one every morning.
He made her all kinds of promises, she said, including telling her he was trying to find a place for them to live in New York.
However, when she woke up he was gone, which left her 'confused' - but Sabourin told the court that she did remain in email contact with Baldwin after this up until the moment of her arrest in April 2012.
'I want to make sure you have the night of your life.' - Alex Baldwin to Genevieve Sabourin in February 2010
Failing to be specific about when
this happened, Sabourin said that one evening Baldwin telephoned her and
asked her what she was wearing.She replied 'boots', after which he said he was wearing a tuxedo and instructed her to remove her clothes.
Telling her that he was now naked, Sabourin said that she embarked on her first ever phone sex session with the actor.
She told the court Baldwin, 55, said 'I think your accent is very sexy'.
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The Canadian then explained under questioning that Baldwin stayed in contact with her via email and told her that he was thinking of buying a $25 million home for them both to live in and that he loved her.
Telling him that she loved him in one email, Sabourin asked Baldwin if he felt the same.
'He made it very clear that he loved me,' said Sabourin.
'He was very warm, very nice, very charming and very married.' -
Genevieve Sabourin on meeting Baldwin for the first time in 2000
Earlier, Sabourin smiled and looked
wistfully on as she recalled their romantic evening in 2010 and said
that after their show Baldwin took her on a chauffeur-driven tour of
Central Park and then wined and dined her.Genevieve Sabourin on meeting Baldwin for the first time in 2000
In earlier testimony, Sabourin recalled that when the pair first met at a dinner in Montreal more than 12-years ago while promoting his film 'Pluto Nash', Baldwin passed her his phone number under the table but she didn't respond to his advances because he was still married to - but separated - from wife Kim Basinger.
'He was very warm, very nice, very flirtatious - and very married,' she said of her lack of interest in him at this point, adding that she does not date men who are attached.
When asked by her defense attorney about the time she went to Baldwin's Hamptons home, Sabourin said she was confused by the reaction because - for her - it was just like calling around to see a friend.
'I was going to Montauk with my friends and you more or less have to pass Alec's place to get there. It's maybe just a five-minute detour. So I thought it would be OK to come by uninvited. More than anything I wanted closure.'
She said when she arrived at the door, Baldwin gestured to Hilaria's coat and shoes to let Sabourin know his girlfriend was there. 'So I left respectfully', she said.
After that she thought maybe a public place would be better to talk to him and get some closure, which was why she went to the event at the Lincoln Center, she said, which Baldwin yesterday referred to as 'something out of a Hitchcock movie'.
She was surprised when the security agent told her Baldwin had asked that she be removed.
When asked by the lawyer why she continued to contact the actor even after he continually asked her to stop, she said that every time he did that, he continued to call her.
She said the first six months of emails and calls were spent trying to arrange to meet up again and the last six months she just wanted some closure.
'I was confused because every time he asked me to stop calling, he would get in contact - actually even more so than usual,' she told the court.
'He wanted to make sure the fish was on the hook. He reeled me in, that's what he does.'
The testimony and details of the evening Sabourin alleges they spent together in 2010 are in direct contrast to the testimony that Baldwin gave yesterday.
He said that the meal they shared at Elio's on the Upper East Side was neither professional or personal - merely a favor to his friend and 'Scarface' producer Martin Bregman who had put Baldwin in contact with Sabourin.
Massed media: Reporters gather around Genevieve
Sabourin just before she entered the court room and became involved in a
brief argument with court officers and the media
According to Sabourin the two did not come into contact again until 2010 when she asked their mutual friend Bregman if he could contact Baldwin to help get her a role on his hit show with Tina Fey, 30-Rock.
She claimed in court that Baldwin began phoning her in January and made flirtatious phone calls daily and purred down the telephone to to her after having already stalked her on Facebook.
Describing the actor as 'very flirtatious', Sabourin, 41, told the packed court in New York that she felt the 30-Rock star was 'researching her' as he quizzed whether or not she was married or wanted children.
'Of course I remember you. How could I not remember you?' Genevieve Sabourin reaclls their phone call in 2010 after having not seen each other for a decade
When he phoned her and when she asked
if he he remembered her, Baldwin allegedly replied 'oh course I
remember who you are - how could I forget you' and then asked her if she
was on Facebook and looked her up while he was on the phone.She said she was surprised because he did not need to ask the spelling of her name and could pronounce it perfectly, which is a rarity in America, she said.
There was more than one Genevieve Sabourin but he was able to pick her picture out himself and she was shocked that he remembered what she looked like.
'And I was like, "Really?" That caught me off guard,' she said. 'I was not prepared for it.'
Sabourin alleges that Baldwin then made a suggestive moan down the telephone to her.
Agreeing to come to New York, Sabourin said that Baldwin arranged a room at the Lowell hotel for the weekend, but she insisted on paying.
When she arrived on the Thursday after Valentines day she said it was obvious to her that Baldwin had informed the hotel that she was his VIP guest as they offered her free champagne and asked her constantly if she was OK and if she needed anything.
On the Friday she said that Baldwin came to pick her up and described the evening to her attorney as, 'a date night between a single woman and a single man who wanted to have a family'.
'He made it clear he was not only single but looking for a serious relationship…our goals were very similar so none of us felt like we were wasting time…we both admitted that we were both looking for a serious relationship,' she said.
Smiling broadly as she recalled their evening, Sabourin said that the pair took in a Broadway show, 'Time Stands Still', starring Alicia Silverstone.
Married: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger pictured in 2000 - two years before they finalized their divorce in November of 2002
'Every time we were walking he was holding me by the hand like a couple do and he took me back stage and spoke to everyone and Alicia Silverstone…I’m having a fantastic date on Valentines with a guy who is single and wants to get married and have kids,' she said.
Asked by her attorney, Todd Spodek if the evening was romantic, she replied, 'It was more than romantic, it was perfect, I was really charmed by him.'
She claimed that there were photographers waiting outside the theater and she dropped Baldwin's hand because she didn't want any press speculation to surround them.
Following the play, the two drove through Central Park because she claims she had told Baldwin that it was her favorite spot in Manhattan.
After the drive, the two then carried on to Elio's restaurant on the Upper East Side where they continued their evening.
Earlier there were dramatic scenes inside and outside of the New York court.
As she was being escorted into the court by officials who were trying to help her through the frenzy of paparazzi, there was some kind of confrontation which Sabourin then cried over in the court room, telling the judge she had been abused.
Refusing to stop interrupting and interjecting as she cried out statements from the bench, she was then found to be in contempt by Judge Robert Mandelbaum and sentenced to 30 days in jail as his patience with the Canadian actress finally ran out.
Media attention: Alex Baldwin is driven away
from his Manhattan home on the day that his alleged stalker took to
the stand and gave her side of their relationship
Judge Mandelbaum immediately told her that she would be spending time in jail regardless of the outcome of the trial in which she is accused of systematically stalking Baldwin and his wife over the course of 18 months.
The soap opera continued this morning as a clearly distressed Sabourin failed to settle as she arrived in court - continually interrupting her own lawyer, Todd Spodek, even though he was trying to pass a motion in her favor.
She spat out a rant in the court, shouting to the judge that court officers had molested her on the steps as she arrived and complained that she is being unfairly vilified in the press.
'That is it. You are held in contempt' - Judge Robert Mandelbaum to Sabourin as he sentenced her to 30 days in jail
'This is an injustice,' Sabourin said in court. 'Everybody has used their force on me.'Indeed, Spodek was in the middle of trying to argue that Martin Bregman, the film producer that Baldwin alleged during his testimony was Sabourin's ex-lover, be added to the witness list.
Sabourin was shouting over the top of this and the judge sternly warned her that this was her final chance, which she ignored.
'Genevieve stop talking,' her lawyer quickly said to her. But that did not stop her.
'That's it. You are held in contempt,' the judge told her.
He then held in her
contempt, placed four court officers around her and told her that her 30
day sentence would be imposed immediately after the trial was finished.'Like every other person in this courthouse you are not permitted to scream out loud,' said Judge Mandelbaum.
'It's very difficult when people lie in front of your face,' a tearful Sabourin shot back.
Separate exit: Hilaria Baldwin leaving her house
with her daughter Camen Gabriela in downton Manhattan after her husband
Alec Baldwin this morning
As Sabourin stood under guard, David Paduani, the doorman of Baldwin's East Village apartment gave his version of events on the Easter Sunday in April 2012 that Sabourin was arrested.
Confirming the testimony of Hilaria Baldwin yesterday that Saboruin arrived and told the doorman that Alec Baldwin was expecting her, Paduani said that he phoned to the apartment and conveyed this message.
Hilaria, 29, who testified that the episode left her 'terrified' told the doorman that this was a stalker and to deny her entry.
Paduani, who has worked at the Baldwin's building for 14 years said that immediately Sabourin asked if that was Hilaria on the phone and called her a 'prostitute' and said that she was going to have Baldwin's baby.
When
it became apparent she wasn't going to be granted entry she got in her
car, drove half way up the road and then returned looking very agitated
holding her Yorkshire Terrier until the police arrived and arrested her.
Day in Court: Actress Genevieve Sabourin leaving
the Criminal Court on Tuesday where she is currently standing trial for
allegedly stalking Alec Baldwin in New York City
Hitchcockian: On Tuesday, Baldwin described his
alleged harassment by Sabourin as 'like something out of Hitchcock' and
told of how he once went on stage at the Lincoln Center to see the
Canadian sitting in the front row. Smiling at him.
On Tuesday, both Baldwin and his wife Hilaria took to the stand, describing how- in his words- he tried to help the struggling Canadian actress because he was friends with film producer Martin Bregman, and she turned that innocent lunch into the launching pad for a fictitious relationship.
The Oscar nominee told the packed courtroom that the Canadian actress ruined his proposal to his wife by arriving at his East Hampton home the day he had asked her to marry him in Montauk, in March 2012.
Sighing heavily and putting his head in his hand, Baldwin wiped his eyes as he recounted how he couldn't be sure Sabourin was carrying a gun when she arrived outside his home and how he told his then-fianceƩ to run and call the police.
Telling the court that he felt 'extremely threatened' when Sabourin, 41, arrived at his home in the exclusive Hamptons of Long Island, Baldwin, 55, said that this was almost the final straw in what he described as Sabourin's systematic terrorizing of him and his family.
As he took a moment to compose himself, Sabourin shouted out, 'Why is he crying?'
Slanderous: In court, Baldwin said that his
alleged stalker was the off-and-on mistress of married producer Martin
Bregman (pictured with his wife of 25-years, Cornelia)
Sabourin shouted out that she could prove they had been intimate together in 2010 because she knew of a scar on his hip that only someone who had been to bed with Baldwin would know about.
Baldwin lost his composure as he described how Sabourin turned up out of the blue at his East Hampton home the day of his romantic proposal to Hilaria.
'I ran to tell my wife not to go near the door because I wasn't sure if she had a gun or a weapon or where we were at this point, and then I called the East Hampton police,' he said.
'It was nightmarish,' Baldwin said during a morning of testimony that at times approached theater in itself. Sabourin unleashed a stream of outbursts - 'He's lying!' for instance - that prompted a judge to warn that he might remove her from court.
Baldwin sometimes came close to playing director, dilating on points he wanted to make, telling Sabourin's lawyer he sounded nervous and musing about having thought of turning Sabourin's voicemail messages into a play. And the famously testy actor left court with an acerbic comment for news photographers.
Emotional: Actor Alec Baldwin, center, leaves
court in New York on Tuesday after he broke down in tears as he gave
testimony during the trial of his alleged stalker
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