Axl Rose Stalker Sentenced

By Stephen M. Silverman

11/24/1997 at 12:00 AM EST

A woman accused of stalking Axl Rose and who violated a 1997 court order to stay away from the Guns n' Roses singer has been sentenced to jail for a year by a Malibu judge. Karen McNeil, a 39-year-old Ohio resident, tried to enter Rose's Malibu home on May 16, according to court testimony. She has faced the same charge twice before, and had been ordered to stay at least 300 yards away from Rose.