Alec Baldwin's shapely accused stalker was sprung from jail just before lunch today after a Manhattan judge arraigned her on new misdemeanor criminal contempt charges.
Genevieve Sabourin, an aspiring French-Canadian actress who insists she shared a night of passion last fall with the "30 Rock" star, is now on the hook for allegedly violating her original order of protection via six Twitter postings from earlier this month.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Lynn Kotler sprang Sabourin over the objections of prosecutors, who asked for $5,000 bail.
"From Nov. 8 to Nov. 23, the defendant sent six messages to the wife of the complaining witness," prosecutor Lauren Manso told the judge. "She does not respect the orders of the court and this makes her a flight risk."
But defense lawyer Rick Pasacreta told the judge that Sabourin has travelled here for all of her previous court appearances at great personal expense -- and was never directly ordered not to contact the wife, Hilaria. Then the lawyer accused prosecutors of being far more starstruck than his client.
"Sometimes when people have a brush with celebrity they get starstruck," he told the judge, feinting that he meant his client, then delivering the legal punchline: "And I'm referring to the people's bail app in this matter."
The new charge alleges that, as first reported in The Post, Sabourin has been continuing to tweet about Baldwin throughout the past month, and that some of her manic missives directed her Twitter followers to the accounts of Baldwin and his new yoga-instructor wife, Hilaria, in apparent violation of the protection issued at her first arrest in April.
Sabourin, 40, was first arrested nine months ago after her earliest series of emails and text messages to the actor, in which prosecutors say she told him she loved him, wanted to have his baby and needed cash.
The Upper West Side's 20th Precinct became the precinct of origin in the case, arresting her back then after she turned up at an event Baldwin was appearing at in Lincoln Center.
Sabourin spent last night back at the 20th Precinct for processing. Nearly hysterical in her insistence to cops that she was innocent, she was treated briefly there for an asthma attack before being brought to Manhattan Criminal Court for today's arraignment.
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