But while Ross relishes being in the public eye—posting provocative images of herself across the internet—there is one side of her life she prefers to keep quiet: her unemployed son’s serial stalking.
Barnes-Ross’ original victim later provided a written statement detailing the harassment.
Alex Barnes-Ross is more than just a son to Fiona: Both are listed by Gov.UK at the same London address, an address shared by Women in Jazz Media, Ross’ nonprofit. Both worked together on the failed company Therapy Records Ltd., incorporated in November 2016, then quickly dissolved. And both collaborated on Ross’ jazz work, with Ross elevating her unemployed son to the spotlight, dedicating a page to him on her professional site.
But in late January 2025, after Barnes-Ross’ serial stalking went viral across the internet, Ms. Ross quietly ripped down any mention of him—erasing Alex from her digital footprint.
On January 27, Freedom reached out to Ms. Ross for comment on her “collaborator’s” stalking—stalking that included incessant messages to his victim, brazenly announcing his refusal to cease the harassment because of his “very, very, very, extremely strong feelings” for her. “The whole time I’ve known you don’t like me, but I’ve just always clinged on to the hope, however small, that you’d just at least give me a chance,” he texted. “And I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on because I have literally no [control over] my feelings.… It’s something that’s really ruining my life right now.”
Ross never responded.
One in three stalkers reoffends and, true to form, Alex Barnes-Ross did, targeting a second female Scientologist. Approaching her at a public meeting, Barnes-Ross sat far too close for comfort and snapped a selfie next to her. Then he drew a heart around the image and posted it online, calling this second act of stalking the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year.”
Still, Fiona Ross had no comment.
Barnes-Ross’ original victim later provided a written statement detailing the harassment. “Alex continued to engage in behaviour that made me extremely uncomfortable,” she wrote, “always trying to get physically closer,” cornering her at her desk. “He ignored my requests to stop his disturbing and harassing behaviour,” she added. “I felt like a sitting duck and like I couldn’t escape him.”
Her statement was provided to a national newspaper in the UK, who questioned her stalker about it. In the stream of victim-shaming deflections from Barnes-Ross that followed, notably absent was any actual denial from him.
Fiona Ross still had no comment.
Instead, Ross quietly deleted Barnes-Ross, then deleted the X account of Women in Jazz Media, hoping to bury the evidence.
But scrubbing his name from the internet won’t cleanse the stain: Fiona Ross remains silent while her son stalks women.
