The Stalking Files

How does it feel to be accused to be a "S T A L K E R" ?

In late August Lydie Denier told the world I had stalked her and had pulled a gun on her and had threatened to kill her.
It´s not true but how does this affect my life so far?

In Germany: noone really cares. All the people who know me know of course also that Lydie did not tell the truth and all know that Lydie and I shot "A Bouquet for a Kill" together, most people I know already have seen a copy of "A Bouquet for a Kill". Noone who personally knows me actually believed one word of what she told, but of course most people who know me also have met Lydie and me together in the time between February 2007 and May 2007 when Lydie came to Berlin to work with me.

What really makes me happy is that also in the US all the producers and movie people I know and I am in touch with (and some of them have worked with Lydie) did not believe the stalker story (of course also most of them have a copy of "A Bouquet for a Kill or photos of shooting) and even people who never heard of me before wrote comments on websites making fun of Lydie and did not believe her stupid story. She made it to TMZ and "stupid celebreties news" and she was even so P R O U D of this nonsense that she made a link on her website !

So far she found some people at Santa Monica court who gave her this restraining order based on her falsified "evidence" and her lies.
But this will not last forever.
I will make sure till the next AFM EVERY Producer in Hollywood, Immigration and all US authorities, every movie website and every Producers, actors or trade papers will know the truth.

Lydie had her one-week triumph of having me in the news as a crazy stalker. But now for the rest of her life as a human being and as an actress EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE will know that she did accuse me wrongly to be a stalker and that she tried to take over my picture. I wonder if this all was worth it.

If Lydie had not broken her contract with me, I would have let her take the picture to Millenium. Why not? I consider Avi Lerner a great producer. I do not know him but I know people who know him. A producer who is on the board of IFTA assured me Avi Lerner is a good guy. My friend Vonny met him once together with Lydie at Berlin Filmmarket and Vonny was impressed. I know he has made great movies and I would have been glad if he would have produced a bigger US version of Bouquet.
But the way Lydie wanted to do it, just to push me out and take it to Millenium without me? Never.
So what did she achieve?
She went behind my back to Avi Lerner and asked him to buy me out.
I refused.
Lydie had no DVD to go to Cannes.
Lydie had brought over Michael Worth to Germany, asking him to play an important
part in the movie she never finished.
Does that look "professional"? Lydie was in as star A N D director.
It is not professional to leave a movie if you are the director.
And it is not professional to betray your producer and go behind his back to another producer to ask him to buy him out.
What did she achieve?
What does Avi Lerner think of Lydie now?
What does Michael Worth think of Lydie now?
And it is not professional if your take-over attempt fails, to run to Santa Monica Court and accuse your producer to be a crazy fan and a stalker. This is also not clever, it is mean and it is s t u p i d .

I have been one of Lydie´s biggest fan´s b e f o r e I have worked with her. I still consider her a good actress, but I do not want to see her anymore or talk to her for the rest of my life.
I have heard of women accusing someone w r o n g l y as a stalker. I do not know what is going on in their mind or in the mind of Lydie. Lydie is a good actress and she did achieve a lot in Hollywood. Knowing her now I wonder h o w she did achieve surving 20 years in Hollywood.
Most men would now be in trouble as it´s her word against their word.
I am a little bit more lucky: I have 15 hours of outtakes showing me and Lydie on the set of A Bouquet for a Kill. We have hundreds of stills of the shooting taken by the DP Jörg Peter and myself. I have a cast and crew who can confirm I am Not a stalker but the producer of A Bouquet for a Kill.

There is a dark and hopeless Hitchcock movie wih Henry Fonda: The Wrong Man. Fonda is accused of having commited a crime, but he is inoccent. His life is ruined this way.
Lydie tried to ruin and to damage my reputation. I am glad she is not really knowing what she is doing as she is very, very bad in telling lies. If she had been a little bit more clever and if she had said, o.k., I´ve worked with that guy, he was my producer and I did direct and we did not get along and things like that, it would have been very difficult for me to prove what really happened.
But in the moment, she went into Santa Monica court and showed them the F A L S I F I E D Cannae email and did tell them I am NOT a producer but a cazy fan who threatened to kill her, she had lost. It´s so easy to prove it´s a lie.
She got the restraining order and in giving this "news" to TMZ and WENN she tried to damage my reputation, not realizing she actually ruined her own reputation:

From now on everyone will remember Ms Denier not as Tarzan´s Jane but as a starlett who wrongly accused me to be a stalker because I did not let her take over my picture.
I don´t know why she did this. Wouldn´t it be more intelligent to just return my tapes, let me edit our movie and release it? And let the world know that she now also is a director? This could have given her carreer a whole new and different direction. Probably other producers would have let her direct movies.

I also wonder that noone of her so-called friends did talk to her and gave her some good advise like as a director you have to finish a movie ?

I will fight Lydie as long as she will not return my tapes. It is my job as a producer to finish my picture and to release it. Lydie has a contract with me. I will not break this contract and I expect Lydie Denier to deliver the movie she promised to deliver to me.

Sincerely Yours,
Michael Huck