Woman Charged in Lindsey Buckingham Attacks, Allegedly Stalked Him
A lady with an alleged historical past of stalking Lindsey Buckingham has been charged with seven legal counts in Los Angeles County after allegedly hurling an unidentified substance on the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist in Santa Monica on March 25 whereas he had a restraining order barring her from making contact.
Michelle Dick was charged in a legal grievance dated Friday and made public on immediately, in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by Rolling Stone. Prosecutors allege that Dick stalked Buckingham between late 2021 and March 25, 2026. The grievance consists of one felony rely of creating legal threats, a felony rely of assault with a lethal weapon involving a motorized vehicle on March 19, and a felony rely of vandalizing Buckingham’s Mercedes-Benz S450 the identical day.
Dick faces a separate felony rely of creating a legal menace in opposition to Buckingham on March 25, and a misdemeanor battery cost for allegedly utilizing drive throughout that incident. Prosecutors charged Dick with stalking each Buckingham and a second alleged sufferer, recognized as Stephanie N., putting them in cheap worry for his or her security.
A choose issued an arrest warrant for Dick, discovering possible trigger, and set bail at $300,000, the paperwork revealed.
Reports emerged final week that Buckingham was attacked on March 25 by an alleged stalker who tracked him to a location in Santa Monica. When the 76-year-old musician arrived, the girl allegedly threw a substance at him and fled, a legislation enforcement supply informed Rolling Stonesaying it wasn’t instantly clear if the substance was “caustic.” Buckingham was not injured. Attempts to achieve his representatives had been unsuccessful.
Buckingham sought a restraining order in opposition to Dick in November 2024, alleging she had stalked him for years and was behind a daunting swatting incident that month that ended with Buckingham briefly detained whereas Los Angeles police searched his Brentwood house. According to courtroom filings obtained by Rolling StoneDick allegedly used his cellphone to name 911 on Nov. 3, 2024, and falsely reported that Buckingham’s son was “suicidal” inside the house and that she had heard gunshots. In a written assertion filed with the courtroom, Buckingham stated practically a dozen officers descended on his home that evening.
“When I answered the door, I was handcuffed and asked to step outside,” he wrote. “After 20 minutes of the police searching my house and me outside in the cold, handcuffed, I was let back into my house, shaken and fearful.”
An LAPD detective assigned to the case informed the choose in a separate written assertion that she later contacted Dick on the identical quantity used to make the bogus 911 name. “During my brief conversation with her, she admitted to calling 911 on Nov. 3, 2024. I advised her that her behavior needed to stop,” Det. Marisol Landeros wrote.
In his petition for the restraining order, which was granted, Buckingham claimed that Dick began harassing him in 2021, and that he was “afraid her conduct may escalate into something physically dangerous to me and my family.”
He stated the alleged harassment began with dozens of cellphone calls, with Dick leaving “long, drawn-out messages that included the claim she was my child and threats to kill me and my family.” He stated Dick additionally blamed him for “facial deformities she suffered as a child and demanded money.” He accused Dick of creating threats to a venue in San Francisco the place he carried out and of leaving a photograph collage with footage from his Instagram at his house handle on Sept. 18, 2024. He stated the following day, Dick allegedly parked his automotive exterior one of many properties he shares together with his spouse. Police allegedly stopped her automotive a short while later and questioned her.
“She began rambling about me being her father and suffocating her as a child,” Buckingham wrote. He stated subsequent threats on Instagram had been directed at his spouse. “This incident terrified my wife as she feared for her safety. Given that Ms. Dick also knows my home address, I am terrified as well,” he wrote.
“I do not know Ms. Dick, and I am not her father,” Buckingham stated in his assertion. (Attempts to achieve Dick based mostly on a cellphone quantity linked to an handle listed in courtroom information weren’t profitable.)
Landeros urged the courtroom to grant the stayaway order in 2024. “I believe Ms. Dick to be mentally unstable and dangerous,” she wrote in her assertion. “The Buckinghams should be granted the civil harassment restraining orders they seek against Ms. Dick for their protection.”
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Scully granted the petition on Dec. 20, 2024, ordering Dick keep at the very least 100 yards away from Buckingham, his spouse, his son, their properties, and their automobiles for 5 years. Dick was barred from harassing or contacting the three members of the Buckingham household in any approach.
Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974 together with Stevie Nicks, his companion in the American folk-rock duo Buckingham Nicks. He wrote and sang lots of their most memorable songs, together with “Go Your Own Way,” “Tusk,” and “Second Hand News.” Buckingham had an acrimonious split from the band in 2018 amid an alleged disagreement over the timing of a world tour.
“We arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall,” Mick Fleetwood told Rolling Stone. “This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band. To that purpose, we made a decision that we could not go on with him. Majority rules in terms of what we need to do as a band and go forward.”
Buckingham sued the group in October 2018 for allegedly giving up on “43 years of camaraderie and friendship,” and cutting him out of the band’s profitable 2018-19 world tour. In the lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stonee, he accused his bandmates of freezing him out and refusing “to provide him with an explanation for his purported expulsion from Fleetwood Maс.”
Two months later, Buckingham dismissed the lawsuit after reaching a private settlement. In 2019, I suffered a coronary heart assault and underwent surgery.
Last week, Buckingham gave a sneak peek at his plans for 2026 by way of a put up on Instagram. “I am still very, very grounded in my creative life,” he stated. “I’ve been working on a new solo album for the last couple of years, which is one song away from being finished.” He additionally stated the upcoming Fleetwood Mac documentary might arrive this yr and appeared to trace at some sort of assembly with Stevie Nicks.
Notably, Buckingham acknowledged his complicated relationship with Nicks. He prompt the choice to reissue their 1973 debut album, Buckingham Nicksfor the first time in decades final yr had fashioned the idea for a reconciliation.
“I think on a more general level, just the energy in terms of what Buckingham Nicks did to sort of create a resurgence of connection between Stevie and myself, I think on a larger scale, that seems to be something that’s in the air,” he said. “And what that translates to specifically, I wouldn’t want to speculate yet. But I believe with all my heart, it will translate to something good, and something wonderful, and something needed and something extremely appropriate.”
