Sandra Bullock at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, 5/7


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Usmagazine.com has learned the full details behind the stalker who attempted to harm Sandra Bullock and her husband, Jesse James at their home in Orange County, CA over the weekend.
Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino says that, “On several occasions before this incident [the 44-year-old actress and her husband] found [Marcia Valentine] lying in front of their garage door. On [the morning of ] Sunday, April 22 around 10:30 a.m., Jesse James went out and asked her to leave. She yelled some obscenities at James, who did not have a cell phone in his hand. When she saw that he did not have a phone, she went to her car. She threw the car in reverse in his direction. He attempted to move out of the way and she kept moving the vehicle. She attempted to run him over three or four times. She then drove off on Pacific Coast Highway. James called police and told them that he did not know this woman. He then gave them a detailed description [of her] to the police - she drove a silver Mercedes with a white decal on the rear. He described her as a 5′4 white female. ”
According to Amormino, James later picked Valentine out of a line-up after she was captured and arrested after she was pulled over by police.
“We searched the area at the time of the incident, but did not locate her. The next morning, we searched the area and spotted her car. We pulled the vehicle over and called James, who then did an in-field lineup where he positively identified her. The case was sent over to the Orange County District Attorney’s office where Marcia Valentine might be facing other charges besides assault with a deadly weapon. Bail was set at $25,000 and she bailed out. She lives in nearby Huntington Beach and she due back on May 22.”
Valentine has no previous police record and has no other restraining orders against her in Los Angeles County.
Police sources tell TMZ that a woman obsessed with Sandra Bullock almost killed Sandra’s husband, motorcycle mogul Jesse James, during a frightening attack at the couple’s Orange County home late Sunday night.
Cops say that Bullock, along with James’ 10-year-old child, looked on in horror as Marcia Valentine “attempted 3 or 4 times to run Jesse James over with her silver Mercedes.” Jesse was never struck by the car during the alleged incident.
We’re told Valentine also “laid in the driveway and wouldn’t move.”
Orange County Sheriffs were contacted and responded to the scene, but Valentine allegedly fled before they arrived. After an intense manhunt, officers located Valentine early Monday morning and took her into custody.
Valentine is being held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
UPDATE: In an exclusive statement to TMZ, the couple’s rep, Cheryl Maisel, said, “The incident did occur. Both Jesse James and Sandra Bullock are fine and it is now in the hands of the authorities.”
Sandra Bullock adores living out of the limelight - because she can wear what she wants without worrying about the criticism she used to face in Hollywood.
The actress, who married Monster Garage reality TV host Jesse James in 2005, lives in Texas and Wyoming when she’s not filming movies.
The 42-year-old says, “Living out there is so nice. I can wear a thong outside without anyone saying, ‘What a fat butt she’s got. She has cellulite.’ “I do my thing, live a normal life, go down to the grocery store and watch my husband race (motorbikes).”

“How many times do people say, ‘So, when are you going to have kids?’ ” she says in the March issue of InStyle. “Can I slap you now?”
For now, her two rescued dogs are her babies, despite recent reports that she was pregnant. “One hundred percent false,” she says.
That’s not to say that she and James, 37, aren’t deliriously happy – even though the tattooed Monster Garage host might not at first look like her perfect match.
Before she got to know him, “I assumed he was a homophobic chauvinist, a bigot who kills people,” she says. “And later I felt saddened by my assumptions because I wondered how many times I had written off people who truly were real.”
Their relationship works, she says, because of “how the pistons shoot off in our heads. One idea begets 700,000 other ones, all requiring immediate attention. At least my addiction is understood by my partner, and hopefully we can help each other find the normalcy. It’s our normalcy; it’s not anyone else’s. I finally felt I had a net for the real me.”
And the real her is just as comfortable in a “ridiculously expensive dress” and Christian Louboutin heels as she is in jeans and dusty boots. So is there anything she couldn’t wear? “A size 4,” she cracks.
But she’s realistic about her body. “We all have cellulite,” she says. “So do supermodels! I’ve been to the shows, and I go, ‘Stick figure has some cellulite!’ It’s nature. Without it, you’re not human.”
