The person accused of stalking film star Scarlett Johansson, and threatening to explode the “Saturday Night Live” set the place her husband Colin Jost works, appeared in Manhattan Felony Courtroom on Tuesday the place he was ordered to bear psychological testing.
Michael Joseph Branham, 48, was taken into custody in Manhattan final week after he allegedly despatched textual content messages saying he deliberate to detonate a bomb within the Midtown studio the place the NBC sketch program airs reside on weekends.
Branham was arraigned on Thursday, the place he pleaded not responsible to falsely reporting an incident and making a menace of mass hurt. His bail was set at $100,000.
He appeared once more in court docket on Tuesday, the place a decide ordered Branham to bear a psychological examination earlier than one other court docket date later this month.
Scarlett Johansson’s alleged stalker, Michael Joseph Branham, seems in Manhattan Felony Courtroom on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Pool photograph by Steven Hirsch)
Johansson, 40, filed a restraining order towards a person becoming Branham’s description in November 2023, based on The Blast. The “Black Widow” star mentioned he had been harassing her for greater than a yr at that time, repeatedly loitering exterior her California house and claiming to have fathered one in all her two children.
Nevertheless, 5 months later, Johansson’s request for the restraining order was pressured to be dismissed after the papers had been unable to be served to her alleged stalker.
Johansson has been married to Jost since October 2020. Collectively they share 3-year-old son Cosmo. Johansson additionally has 10-year-old daughter Rose with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
Initially Printed: April 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM EDT
