A creepy Camelot wannabe today pleaded guilty to stalking Caroline Kennedy’s raven-haired daughter — then took advantage of a sweetheart plea deal that had him strolling out of Manhattan Supreme Court after serving just a few months in jail.
Prior to accepting the lenient plea deal, Naeem Ahmed, 41, told the judge he wasn’t "crazy," just besotted with Tatiana Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s 20–year old grandchild.
"I respect that lady from the bottom of my heart," he told the judge.
He pleaded guilty to stalking and aggravated harassment. He was sentenced to just 60 days in the slammer.
Because he’s been in jail since his arrest on Dec. 8, he’s already served more time than his sentence and was able to leave court immediately.
He was also sentenced to three years probation and slapped with an order of protection barring him from contacting anyone in the Kennedy or Schlossberg clan.
Under the conditions of his deal, if he stays out of trouble for a year he can try and have his record sealed.
In the past few weeks, Ahmed had been reluctant to take a deal, insisting that he wanted to go to trial.
Yesterday, an incredulous Judge Bruce Allen urged Ahmed’s lawyer to convince his client that he’d be better off accepting the prosecution’s more than generous offer.
If convicted at trial, Ahmed could’ve gone to jail for a year.
" This is the deal of the century . . . It doesn’t get better than this," he told him.
Outside of court, Ahmed said he only pleaded guilty because prosecutors told him that the Schlossbergs wanted him to.
"I was prepared for a trial but with the judge, prosecutors, we talk and they [the Schlossbergs] want that," he said.
"I don’t want them in the witness for other people to bother them."
Despite all that’s happened, he said he still loves Tatiana Schlossberg, who he barraged with love letters, flowers and chocolates beginning in 2008.
"I still love her. It is unconditional," said Ahmed.
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