Famke Janssen: Fearful Victim Or Master Deceiver in 'Lonely Doll' Mystery?
Is this the end of Famke Janssen's "Lonely Doll" mystery?
On August 10, the 48-year-old 'X-Men' actress contacted the police and filed a report at the First Precinct station house in New York, saying that when she returned home to her Greenwich Village penthouse, she discovered that someone broke into her apartment and left a single copy of children's book called The Lonely Doll on a shelf in her bedroom.
Although Janssen did not notice anything missing in her apartment, she insisted an intruder broke into her house with the intention of stalking her.
The Lonely Doll, first published by photographer Dare Wright in 1957, is a story of a doll named Edith who meets two teddy bears and becomes friends with them; her teddy bear friends promise to never, ever to leave her. It is possible that Janssen feared that the stalker who supposedly broke into her apartment would never leave her alone, just like the children's story.
Over the next month, after a careful investigation, the detectives found "no signs of forced entry" and "nobody suspicious" on surveillance footage from the SoHo penthouse. They also reported that there were no fingerprints on the book.
Soon after, the police claimed that the book with its cover of a black-and-white photograph of an eerie-looking plastic Barbie doll, which was allegedly left in Janssen's bedroom, belonged to the actress the whole time. The investigators found a few sheets of to-do list notes in between the pages of the book, with Janssen's name on it.
A police spokesman announced that they've made no arrests in the case, and Janssen will not be charged with filing a false report, because she firmly believes that she is the victim of the creepy break-in.
Famke Janssen's "Lonely Doll" crime still remains as a mystery and leaves many of us with questions. Whether this case is a hoax, true or imagined, we can't help but to sympathize her.