Former LSU gymnast turned Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model Olivia ‘Livvy‘ Dunne said she’s fearful of being stalked in airports following encounters she’s described involving “at least 10 middle-aged men” harassing her and attempting to get her autograph.
“There’s a group of autograph seekers who are able to know private flight information,” Dunne said in a statement to NBC News on Saturday (May 31). “I am not the only female athlete who experiences this. It’s scary because they simply don’t take no for an answer.”
Dunne, 22, issued the statement after making the same claim on her TikTok account Saturday. The former gymnast said men have approached her with a stack of 40 pictures of her or her magazines, allegedly following her through TSA PreCheck lines to sign the copes and becoming hostile if she doesn’t oblige.
Dunne shared a video of herself crying after a red-eye flight Friday (May 30) morning after being circled by a group of men at baggage claim. The social media influencer said incidents have occurred when she’s attended big events or gone on vacations with her family in the TikTok video, which included a caption claiming “they know time, place, airport, everything” and warned other women to “stay safe.”
“I know I’m chronically online and I post my life, but I’m talking about like a 20-minute connecting flight through Omaha, Nebraska,” Dunne said in the video. “They would be waiting there. I’m not making content on a connecting flight.”
The former national champion acknowledged that her situation mirrored Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas‘ recounting of an incident in which she claimed three to six middle-aged men harassed her to sign about 40 pictures in the airport in a post shared on her TikTok account in January. Thomas, who won the women’s 200 meters at the 2024 Paris Olympics, said the men would appear at her gate, “which means they have flight tickets and they get past security and all that” and were also “aggressive and hostile” if she refused to sign them.
“I don’t know how they’re getting my flight information and it’s really starting to freak me out,” Thomas said.
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