{"id":35763,"date":"2012-04-11T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35763"},"modified":"2012-04-11T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:52:16","slug":"zynga-boss-stalked-by-a-stripper-spends-over-1-million-in-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35763-zynga-boss-stalked-by-a-stripper-spends-over-1-million-in-security","title":{"rendered":"Zynga boss stalked by a stripper, spends over $1 million in security"},"content":{"rendered":"

With great power comes great responsibility… aaaand<\/em> great potential for attracting crazies.<\/p>\n

Zynga boss Mark Pincus knows all about that, as he claims he’s been stalked by a Russian stripper for over a year. In a series of e-mails, voice-mails, and blog posts written in February last year, Vera Svenchina allegedly claimed, among other things, that her family invented Zynga and that Google co-founders\u00a0Sergey Brin and Larry Page killed her father. She also told Pincus that his children were “ugly babies”, which may or may not be true.<\/p>\n

Svenchina was apparently committed to a psychiatric ward for three days in 2010 after reporting to the police that Google was sending messages to her brain, telling her to kill herself.<\/p>\n

That case is being settled in court, but according to Kotaku, additional “undisclosed threats” have forced the company to put down over $1.3 million for private security for Pincus and his family.<\/p>\n

Maybe Batman is after him.<\/p>\n

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Mark Pincus<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: Market Watch<\/a> (via Kotaku<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

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