"It's been just eight days since rising art star Jeremy Blake was seen wandering into the ocean off New York's Rockaway Beach -- presumably to his death -- a week after he discovered that his blogger-filmmaker girlfriend, Theresa Duncan, had taken her life in their East Village apartment.
But the apparent double suicide of this glamorous, intellectual couple has confounded and disturbed the art world in New York, London and Los Angeles, where they lived together for several years. Many were shocked by the turn of events while others noted that the couple had acted strangely in their final months together.
According to several friends and art world peers, the two believed they were being stalked and harassed by Scientologists, an abiding fear that soured old friendships and made some of their respective working relationships difficult."
Whole article
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/cl-et-blake25jul25,0,1773265.story
Teresa Duncan's blog entry about scientologists stalking them
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/05/the_trouble_wit.html
A link to some of Jeremy Blake's artwork
http://www.ktfgallery.com/artists/jeremy_blake/?show=home
Also, a fisherman found a body yesterday that they believe is his. They are asking anyone who knows of a dentist he might have used to come forward so that they can make a positive ID.
But the apparent double suicide of this glamorous, intellectual couple has confounded and disturbed the art world in New York, London and Los Angeles, where they lived together for several years. Many were shocked by the turn of events while others noted that the couple had acted strangely in their final months together.
According to several friends and art world peers, the two believed they were being stalked and harassed by Scientologists, an abiding fear that soured old friendships and made some of their respective working relationships difficult."
Whole article
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/cl-et-blake25jul25,0,1773265.story
Teresa Duncan's blog entry about scientologists stalking them
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/05/the_trouble_wit.html
A link to some of Jeremy Blake's artwork
http://www.ktfgallery.com/artists/jeremy_blake/?show=home
Also, a fisherman found a body yesterday that they believe is his. They are asking anyone who knows of a dentist he might have used to come forward so that they can make a positive ID.