Woman Arrested Over Trent Reznor's AOL Account
Wall of Sound (June 2, 1998)

Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor may want to find himself another ISP,
because he's had nothing but his share of problems with America Online.
According to New Orleans' Times-Picayune, a Georgia woman accessed Reznor's
account by calling AOL and posing as his wife. She was arrested and charged
with computer fraud and access-device fraud, as well as for harassing Reznor
via phone. She also allegedly charged several long distance calls to one of
Reznor's credit cards. "This appears to be a case of an obsessive fan," AOL
spokeswoman Patricia Primrose told the paper, "who committed fraud against
AOL and Mr. Reznor." For her part, the suspect denied the charges. "I didn't
do it," she said. "All I want is to go home to Atlanta to be with my family."
Reznor's camp would not discuss the case. 

This is the second major incident involving the Nine Inch Nails leader and
the nation's largest online service. Reznor is also facing a lawsuit filed in
Los Angeles federal court by one Mark Nicholas Onofrio, who alleges that
Reznor ripped off six of his songs after the two met in an AOL chatroom. In
his suit, Onofrio claims that in January 1993, he met Reznor on AOL and asked
him to listen to an album he was in the process of recording. After sending
Reznor his music, Onofrio said five remarkably similar compositions appeared
on The Downward Spiral, while another turned up on the soundtrack to Natural
Born Killers.