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 Prison Courtroom on Tuesday the place he was ordered to endure 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 risk of mass hurt. His bail was set at $100,000.
He appeared once more in courtroom on Tuesday, the place a choose ordered Branham to endure a psychological examination earlier than one other courtroom date later this month.
Scarlett Johansson’s alleged stalker, Michael Joseph Branham, seems in Manhattan Prison 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, in accordance with The Blast. The “Black Widow” star stated he had been harassing her for greater than a 12 months at that time, repeatedly loitering exterior her California residence and claiming to have fathered one in all her two children.
Nonetheless, 5 months later, Johansson’s request for the restraining order was compelled to be dismissed after the papers have 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 Revealed: April 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM EDT
