Obsessed Lina Tantash is said to have turned film maker Jarlath Rice's life into a "living nightmare" after launching a "sinister" campaign against him.
The Daily Mail reports the 43-year-old ordered hundreds of pounds of pizza to be delivered to his office and even hired a private detective to look his private life.
The paper reveals she believed Mr Rice was in breach of a deal in which she loaned him money in return for intimacy – and a promise of marriage.
However, Tantash, of Croydon, now faces jail after being convicted of stalking at Brighton Magistrates’ Court.
The pair reportedly first met in 2007 and had a fling in Dublin, but over the years Mr Rice tried to distance himself from his lover.
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When he moved to Brighton to work as a college tutor, Tantash, then a project manager at Trinity College Dublin, moved to take up a new role in London.
The Mail reports she then turned on Mr Rice when she suspected he was involved in a new relationship with a colleague.
In one phone call, Tantash was recorded telling her "love rival" she looked like a horse. And in an email she told the woman she had "disgusting, frizzy hair" and "buck teeth".
Prosecuting, Dominic Dudkowski said Mr Rice was "at his wits’ end" when he signed the contracts linked to £50,000 Tantash said she had lent him.
In mitigation Tantash said she had a stable family background.
However the court was also told that love was missing from her life.
She also claimed to have paid Mr Rice’s debts and supported his career in return for a romantic commitment.
But District Judge Amanda Kelly convicted her of stalking and warned her she faces jail when she is sentenced next month.
"Miss Tantash became utterly obsessed with Mr Rice," she said.
"She embarked upon a sinister and sustained campaign of stalking behaviour that became a living nightmare for him."
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