Editing Erotomania (section)

==Well-known cases==
In his paper that described the syndrome, de Clérambault referenced a patient he had counselled who was obsessed with British monarch [[George V]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://crimefeed.com/2013/10/9-stalkers-that-make-us-glad-were-not-famous/|title=9 Stalkers That Make Us Glad We're Not Famous.|last1=McDonnell |last2=Margaux |last3=McPadden.|date=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331073722/http://crimefeed.com/2013/10/9-stalkers-that-make-us-glad-were-not-famous/|archive-date=2014-03-31|url-status=usurped|access-date=2025-05-19}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2021}} She had stood outside [[Buckingham Palace]] for hours at a time, believing that the king was communicating his desire for her by moving the curtains.<ref name=":3" /> Parallels were drawn between this and a 2011 case where the body of a homeless American man was found on a secluded island in [[St James's Park|St James Park]], within sight of Buckingham Palace. The man had sent hundreds of "strange and offensive" packages to [[Queen Elizabeth II]] over the previous fifteen years.<ref name=":3" /> 

The [[Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan|attempted assassination]] of United States president [[Ronald Reagan]] by [[John Hinckley Jr.]] has been reported to have been driven by an erotomaniac fixation on actress [[Jodie Foster]], whom Hinckley was attempting to impress.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Taylor Jr. |first=Stuart |date=June 22, 1982 |title=HINKLEY IS CLEARED BUT IS HELD INSANE IN REAGAN ATTACK |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/22/us/hinkley-is-cleared-but-is-held-insane-in-reagan-attack.html |access-date=September 11, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Late-night TV entertainer [[David Letterman]] and former astronaut [[Story Musgrave]] were both stalked by [[Margaret Mary Ray]], who had erotomania.<ref name=":3" />

Michael David Barrett allegedly had erotomania, stalking ESPN correspondent [[Erin Andrews]] across the country, trying to see her and taking lewd videos.<ref name=":3" />

Many cases of obsession or stalking can be linked to erotomania but do not always necessarily go hand in hand.

=== In media ===
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* In ''[[Black Narcissus]]'' (1947) Sister Ruth exhibits erotomania towards Mr Dean
* ''[[Girls Town (1959 film)|Girls Town]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Play Misty for Me]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Nurse Betty]]'' (2000)
* A main character in the American TV series ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]'', [[Lorna Morello]], exhibits erotomanic behavior towards a man to whom she deludedly believes herself to be engaged
* ''[[He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (film)|He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not]]'' (2002)
* A 2011 episode (season 5, episode 3) of the British TV series [[Lewis (TV series)|''Lewis'']] features a character with erotomania, referred to in the show as de Clérambault's syndrome
* ''[[Enduring Love (film)|Enduring Love]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' – season 1, episode 5: "Broken Mirror"
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' – season 1, episode 18: "Somebody's Watching"
* ''[[Doc Martin]]'' – season 6, episode 3: "The Tameness of a Wolf"
* ''[[Law & Order]]'' – season 3, episode 18: "Animal Instinct"
* ''[[Wire in the Blood]]'' - season 3, episode 3: "Nothing But the Night"
* A 2019 episode (season 1, episode 2) of the British-Austrian series [[Vienna Blood (TV series)|''Vienna Blood'']] features a character who displays symptoms of de Clérambault's syndrome (although correctly not described as such, since the programme is set in 1907, 14 years before de Clérambault himself described the syndrome)
* ''[[You (TV series)|You]]'' (2018) Joe Goldberg experiences erotomania in most of his interactions with women he's meeting for the first time
* In Chapter VIII of ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', the title character expresses the view that Daisy, his obsession, might, at most, have loved her husband "just for a minute, when they were first married" but that she loved him, Gatsby, "more even then".
* ''Erotomaniac'' (2022) an animated horror film about erotomania
* ''[[The Brokenwood Mysteries]]'' – series 10, episode 4: "Love You to Death"