Kristin Cavallari gets order of protection against Chicago man
Kristin Cavallari, the wife of Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, briefly appeared in a Lake County courtroom Thursday, where an order of protection she filed against a Chicago man was extended for another two years.
Court records show Cavallari, using the name Kristin Cutler, requested the order of protection against David Berkowitz, 38, of Chicago, on April 9. A “no stalking order” was granted that day and on Thursday was extended through April 29, 2017.
In Cavallari’s request for the order of protection, she wrote that Berkowitz followed her to Equinox gym in Highland Park, on March 17, and then followed her after her workout to the parking lot.
According to a Highland Park police report on the alleged incident, Berkowitz pulled up beside Cavallari’s car after they left the gym parking lot and told her she had a flat tire.
Cavallari told police that she pulled into another parking lot to check the tire and saw Berkowitz drive past slowly and then pull in and out of nearby parking lots.
“He stayed with me for 20 minutes while I waited for my husband,” Cavallari said in the court filing.
The police report states that Berkowitz later admitted to authorities that he had let the air out of Cavallari’s car tire.
“I am so sorry. I have never been more embarrassed in my entire life. I let the air out of her tire so I could be the hero,” Berkowitz told authorities, according to the police record.
The record shows Berkowitz also signed a handwritten statement saying that after he “realized there was a celebrity” who used the same gym as he did, he “wanted to meet her” and “came up with a ridiculous, crazy idea to let the air out of her tire so I could be the Good Samaritan and help fix it.”
Cavallari also said in the court filing that, the previous week, the same man “was waiting in his car next to me when I left the gym and was staring at me. He asked my Pilates instructor about me and knew … when I worked out. He had been showing up randomly, fully dressed with no reason to be at the gym.”
The former reality TV star added, according to the court records: “I want him to stay away from me and my family.”
Berkowitz was ordered to stay away from Cavallari and her two sons and to have no written, verbal, physical, third-party or social media contact with them, the records show. He was also ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from Halas Hall in Lake Forest, from the Equinox gym in Highland Park and the Chicago Sport Institute.
The police record also indicate a private investigator had also investigated the matter before police became involved.
In court Thursday, Cavallari did not appear to have a lawyer present but was escorted into the courtroom in Waukegan by Highland Park and Lake County police officers.
Berkowitz’s attorney, Scott Gordon, said after the hearing that he had asked the judge to seal the case but that the judge denied the request.
Berkowitz could not be reached after the hearing. He has not been charged with any crime in connection to the alleged incident.
