Ivanka Trump's Stalker Freed

(NewsCore) - A schizophrenic man who terrified Ivanka Trump with visits to her Madison Avenue jewelry store and a campaign of scary YouTube videos and emails is to be released from custody following a court hearing Thursday.

Justin Massler pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to violating a judge's order by continuing to harass Trump last year. The 29-year-old has stabilized on anti-psychotic medications during the past year while he has been incarcerated at Bellvue Hospital and, more recently, Rikers, said his lawyer, George Vomvolakis.

"He is now very lucid, very reasonable and understands everything going on around him," the lawyer said.

"Lucid" would not have described Massler in March, 2011, when he threatened to go down "in a hail of bullets" and posted bizarre YouTube clips in which he insisted aliens were forcing him to continue stalking Trump despite his being prosecuted for a two-year campaign of creepy behavior.

The once shaggy-haired Massler appeared in court Thursday with neatly shorn hair, and gave crisp yes and no answers as Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone accepted his guilty plea to charges of criminal contempt and aggravated harassment.

The judge sentenced him to six months jail -- which he has already served two-fold. Under the terms of his plea, Massler must begin serving five months probation, during which he must continue with his medications and therapy.

Massler also had to sign an order of protection barring him from any contact with Trump -- daughter of famous tycoon Donald Trump. He must also stay away from her husband, Jarrod Kushner, and both the wider Kushner and Trump families.

Massler, who was set to be released by the end of the day, may be heading back to his hometown of Reno, Vomvolakis said -- in which case his probation would be transferred to Nevada.

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