Dawn DaLuise was a prominent Hollywood skin care specialist whose clientele included Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox. Then, she landed in jail on charges that she hired a hit man to kill a competitor. Eventually, she was tried in court and acquitted, but what led to the harrowing ordeal?
Speaking out for the first time, DaLuise recounts to Dr. Phil how she became the target of a vicious and hostile stalking campaign, receiving 1,600-2,000 disturbing text messages and phone calls threatening her and her children. “They started off harmless enough but strange. ‘Is this Dawn?’ or ‘I saw you yesterday.’ You know, things like that. And I just thought that they had found the wrong person,” DaLuise says in the video above of the texts she received during a four-month period. “Then, it started to be photos of my apartment. Photos that were photoshopped of the car I owned with extensive damage done to it. Photo of the grim reaper. Photos of the home where my children lived. It might be a photo of my apartment and a message would say, ‘You forgot to put out your fireplace.’” She says the texts kept getting worse, and started to mention her children. DaLuise says the person also sent men to her business looking for sexual services. “He used social media and he used free sex sites to just absolutely place me under siege,” she adds.
Confident it was a “rival” esthetician, Gabriel Suarez, sending her the text messages, DaLuise sent incriminating messages to a friend, Edward Feinstein, threatening to “take out” Suarez.
“Did you or did you not solicit someone to kill this man?” Dr. Phil asks DaLuise in the clip above.
“I did not,” she says.
“Why are they saying you did?” Dr. Phil asks.
“They found texts where I was venting to Edward Feinstein. How I felt during the worst time of it while I was under siege,” she explains. “It was one of those ‘Oh, I could kill this person, I wish I could do it with my own bare hands, I should find someone to take him out.’ It was that type of venting.”
Feinstein gave these messages to the police and DaLuise was arrested.
“I just loved my life. It was perfect. And when I look back, when I’m forced to face these texts that I wrote, it makes me look a bungling vicious fool,” she tells Dr. Phil, explaining that she now believes Feinstein was the one harassing her all along.
Did she ever intend to harm Suarez? How did she come to the conclusion that Feinstein was behind her arrest? This episode of Dr. Phil, “Hollywood Facialist Accused of Hiring a Hit Man Speaks Out for the First Time,” airs Wednesday 10/21. Watch a preview, and check local listings here.
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