A Fatal Attraction: How Björk became the target of an obsession
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·On September 17, 1996, a parcel addressed to Björk was inside London’s postal system, and detectives had to find it before it reached the address.
The warning came from Florida, because the sender, 21 year old Ricardo López, had mailed it on September 12 and then killed himself on camera, leaving behind tapes that explained what he had set in motion.
López’s obsession began in 1993, and it grew through isolation and self loathing, which made Björk feel like a private lifeline to him. He wrote an 803 page diary and filmed long video diaries, which turned his fixation into a documented plan instead of a vague threat.
The tipping point arrived when he read that Björk was seeing the producer Goldie, and he reacted with rage because he framed it as betrayal and because he was fixated on Goldie’s race. After that, admiration became punishment. He built a letter bomb designed to spray sulphuric acid when opened, and he sent it to London, which put everyone on the delivery chain at risk.
On September 16, neighbours reported a foul smell, which led police to López’s apartment, and the tapes inside pushed investigators to alert Scotland Yard immediately. UK officers traced the parcel to a South London sorting office and detonated it safely, which prevented injury.
When Björk spoke outside her home the next day, she called it terrible and very sad, and she asked people not to treat her work as a path into her personal life.
What stays behind is the archive. The tapes and diary explain the threat, but they also became something people watch. That raises a hard question: what happens when fame meets a person in crisis, and media curiosity turns that crisis into content. The parcel was stopped in time, but the footage still circulates, which keeps pulling Björk back into a story she never chose.
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