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Arlene Silver Reveals Stalking Nightmare Amid Emotional Turmoil

12/18/2025

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Arlene Silver, wife of Dick Van Dyke, revealed in an Instagram livestream that she is being stalked in Malibu.
She said the stalker has followed her for months around her yoga classes.
Silver said she may need a bodyguard for protection.
She described her emotional turmoil after the deaths of friends Rob and Michele Reiner, which overshadowed Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday celebrations, calling the weekend "weird, wonderful, awful".

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Arlene Silver, wife of Dick Van Dyke, revealed in an Instagram livestream that she is being stalked in Malibu.
She said the stalker has followed her for months around her yoga classes.
Silver said she may need a bodyguard for protection.
She described her emotional turmoil after the deaths of friends Rob and Michele Reiner, which overshadowed Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday celebrations, calling the weekend "weird, wonderful, awful".