Caroline Kennedy received a lot of unwanted attention two years ago when she briefly seemed destined to take Hillary Clinton's vacated Senate seat, but it seems her daughter was the recipient of a much creepier sort of attention. Tatiana Schlossberg, 20, has been stalked by Naeem Ahmed for the better part of the last three years. Ahmed has now been arrested and charged with two misdemeanor counts of aggravated harassment and a misdemeanor stalking count. Nevertheless, he doesn't hold a grudge against the Kennedys: "I love them. I love her. I still do. I don't know why. Love is crazy. But I'm not crazy," Ahmed told the News during a jailhouse interview.
Ahmed is accused of bombarding Schlossberg, the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, with a torrent of letters, flowers, balloons, phone messages and emails, including 40 disastrously romantic e-cards, since April 2008. They seemed to have started out fairly benign (birthday wishes), but increasingly grew more familiar, disturbed and incoherent. He sent one message to Kennedy and her husband in late May 2009, that read, "Dearest, please, don't involve anyone else in this matter at this time. We can talk and solve all family matters ourselves. I am not gonna live in this uncertain and painful situation and not gonna suffer any stress and tension [created by others] any more, at all because enough is enough." In November 2009, he twice attempted to visit the Schlossbergs' home and was refused entry. In another card, he wrote, "I know you, I know the feeling of you, I know your shape, your sound, your warmth, and your taste. I know you, and I know that I want you, and I need you...Always."
After telling the family he would no longer contact them, Ahmed sent yet another e-card in February 2010 to Tatiana Schlossberg with the message: “My Dearest Hunny Bunny! Have A Happy Valentine's Day. Do I love you? Yes I do. Do you? Truly Yours, Yours Hubby, Naeem." Ahmed, a Pakistani immigrant who has been taking taxi-driving classes in Brooklyn, is being held on $25,000 bail and is awaiting a psychological evaluation. But he told the News that things were more complicated than they seemed: "I spend a lot of money on flowers and chocolates, from $90 to $100 sometimes. If they did not want them, tell me, 'I don't want them.' They never told me to stop sending flowers and emails. If they had, I would have stopped....I want to ask them, 'What do you want from me?' I can break from your life if that's what you want," he said.
