It's cool, Miley, we know that dude is lying.

Los Angeles police were called to Miley Cyrus's home in Studio City, California early Saturday where they confronted an allegedly scissor-wielding man who claimed he was married to the singer.

Police told the Associated Press that "employees" in the residence made the call. When the authorities arrived, the man met them at the door.

Officers didn't believe the man, identified in one report as Jason Luis Rivera, when he claimed he was intimate enough with the 19-year-old singer to hang out in her house at 4 a.m., carrying scissors--that'd be strange even if couple really was married. So, inevitably, things got weird:

[Los Angeles police Lt. Brian] Wendling says the suspect then repeatedly threw himself against an outside wall as if he was trying to break into the house. Cyrus was not home at the time.

Police say Mr. Rivera, age 40, attempted to hide in nearby shrubbery, to no avail.

The Observer uncovered a MySpace page for a Jason Luis Rivera who closely resembled the man seen in the photo published by OnTheRedCarpet.com. He listed his occupation as "poet" and his top three friends were ideal sister wives for the alleged delusional stalker about town: Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Amanda Bynes.

As of Saturday afternoon, the intruder had not been formally charged.

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Robert Dewey Hoskins, the 54-year-old drifter convicted of stalking Madonna in the late 1990s, is on the loose again in Southern California. Hoskins has also made threats against Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, prompting Ms. Berry to consider moving overseas.

In 1996 Hoskins was jailed for 10 years after climbing a wall surrounding Madonna's home in the Hollywood Hills and threatening to cut her throat. Hoskins was shot twice after confronting a security guard on the premises.

Hoskins has been in and out of mental institutions since he was released from prison. In spite of being described as "highly psychotic with violent tendencies" if unmedicated, he was able to simply walk away from a facility in Norwalk, CA a week ago.

When Madonna testified against Hoskins in 1996 she described feeling sick to her stomach and "incredibly disturbed" to be in the same room with him. In a public statement released after the trial, Madonna said she hoped Hoskins's conviction would "let other stalking victims know that the system can, and does, work."

Hoskins continued to make threats after going to prison. The Daily News reported the following 12 years ago today; Hoskins had been incarcerated for 4 years at the time:

The Material Gal's stalker, Robert Dewey Hoskins, continues to threaten her from behind bars, according to prosecutors. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Rhonda Saunders says Hoskins still presents a danger to Madonna based on a videotape of a prison interview with a police shrink and letters he has written to his family. Saunders would not disclose what Hoskins said on the tape or in the letters.

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"It was like a movie that you live through," said Janet, her hair pulled up and back in a platinum ponytail. "Throughout our career, we had people who we labeled 'kooks'--lots of them," explained Kathy, an elegant brunette.

Given that the slaying was seemingly the first involving a celebrity stalker, it is remarkable how little attention it received. In part, that was an accident of timing: The murder occurred three days after the Manson Family killed Sharon Tate.

The Lennons have rarely been interviewed about the incident, and it wasn't what they'd come to talk about. Toy Fair was under way, and the sisters were promoting Best Pals, their signature line of rag dolls, featuring new dress patterns created by QVC powerhouse Jim Shore, a towering figure in the world of homespun tchotchkes.

"We used to get these letters," Kathy recalled. "People who would send us rings, proposals. There were the ones that admired and loved you, and the ones that would cross the line, who were ... off. The man that killed our dad had stalked us for years. In his mind, he thought he was married to our sister Peggy, and that the president and our dad were keeping him from being with his wife."

Chet Young was his name. He'd been institutionalized but periodically escaped, arriving on the Lennon family's doorstep and begging to see Peggy.

"Daddy used to say, 'He's a fan; be nice,'" Janet said.

On Aug. 12, 1969, Young approached Bill Lennon in the parking lot of the Marina Del Ray Golf Range--where Bill was a teaching pro--shot him and disappeared.

At the time, the Lennons were set to launch a new TV series, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters. Astonishingly, the show debuted even with Young on the loose. "We had to have a closed set," Kathy recalled. "F.B.I. agents, SWAT teams. We were terrified."

Two months after the murder, Young was found dead in his car, an apparent suicide.

Despite living through what seems like a very modern sort of tragedy, the Lennon Sisters never quite managed to shed the hokey aura of the Eisenhower years. "People always thought of us with those crinoline dresses and working with an accordion," Kathy said, rolling her eyes. "Sometimes it hurt that the industry saw us as squares. Even when we did the most sophisticated shows at Caesars Palace, people still remembered us doing the polka."

Still, neither sister expressed any regret. "I think we just enjoyed sisterhood so much," Kathy said. "Everything we did, we experienced it together. Best pals."

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