A woman with an alleged history of stalking Lindsey Buckingham has been charged with seven criminal counts in Los Angeles County after she threw an unknown substance at the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist in Santa Monica on March 25, even though he had a restraining order barring her from contacting him.
Michelle Dick was charged in a felony complaint Friday and made public today, according to court documents obtained by rolling stone. Prosecutors allege Dick stalked Buckingham between late 2021 and March 25, 2026. The complaints include one felony count of criminal threatening, one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon involving a motor vehicle on March 19 and one felony count of vandalizing Buckingham’s Mercedes-Benz S450 on the same day.
Dick faces a separate felony charge of making criminal threats against Buckingham on March 25 and a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly using force during that incident. Prosecutors accused Dick of stalking Buckingham and a second alleged victim, Stephanie Ann, and placing them in reasonable fear for their safety.
The documents revealed that a judge, finding probable cause, issued an arrest warrant for Dick and set bail at $300,000.
Reports emerged last week that Buckingham was attacked on March 25 by an alleged stalker who tracked her to a location in Santa Monica. When the 76-year-old musician arrived, the woman allegedly threw a substance at him and ran away, a law enforcement source said. rolling stoneSaying it was not immediately clear whether the substance was “caustic” or not. Buckingham was not injured. Efforts to reach their representatives were unsuccessful.
Buckingham sought a restraining order against Dick in November 2024, alleging that she had been stalking her for years and was behind a horrific swatting incident that month that ended with Buckingham being briefly detained while Los Angeles police searched her Brentwood home. According to court filings obtained by rolling stoneDick allegedly used his cellphone to call 911 on November 3, 2024, and falsely reported that Buckingham’s son was “suicidal” inside the home and that he had heard gunshots. In a written statement filed with the court, Buckingham said about a dozen officers came to his home that night.
“When I opened the door, I was handcuffed and told to get out,” he wrote. “After 20 minutes of police searching me in and out of the cold, I was handcuffed and allowed to go back into my house, traumatized and frightened.”
An LAPD detective assigned to the case told the judge in a separate written statement that he later contacted Dick on the same number used to make the fake 911 call. “During my brief conversation with him, he admitted to calling 911 on November 3, 2024. I advised him that his behavior needed to stop,” Det. Marisol Landeros wrote.
In her petition for a restraining order, which was granted, Buckingham claimed that Dick began harassing her in 2021, and that she “feared that his conduct could be physically dangerous to me and my family.”
She said the alleged harassment began with dozens of phone calls in which Dick left “long, drawn-out messages claiming she was my baby and threatening to kill me and my family.” He said Dick also blamed him for “inflicting facial disfigurement in his childhood and demanding money”. She accused Dick of making threats at an event venue in San Francisco and leaving a photo collage with photos from her Instagram at her home address on September 18, 2024. The next day, Dick allegedly parked his car outside one of the homes he shared with his wife, she said. Police reportedly stopped his car after a short while and interrogated him.
“She began to say that I was her father and that I had suffocated her as a child,” Buckingham wrote. He said the threats were later directed at his wife on Instagram. He wrote, “This incident scared my wife because she feared for her safety. Given that Ms. Dick also knows my home address, I am scared too.”
“I do not know Ms. Dick, and I am not her father,” Buckingham said in his statement. (Efforts to reach Dick based on a phone number associated with the address listed in court records were not successful.)
Landeros urged the court to grant a stay order in 2024. “I believe Ms. Dick to be mentally unstable and dangerous,” he wrote in his statement. “Buckingham should be granted a civil harassment restraining order against Ms. Dick for her own safety.”
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Sculley granted the plea on December 20, 2024, ordering Dick to stay at least 100 yards away from Buckingham, his wife, his son, their homes and their vehicles for five years. Dick was prohibited from harassing or contacting the three members of the Buckingham family in any way.
Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974 with his partner Stevie Nicks in the American folk-rock duo Buckingham Nicks. He wrote and sang many of their most memorable songs, including “Go Your Own Way,” “Tusk,” and “Second Hand News.” Buckingham acrimoniously parted ways with the band in 2018 amid alleged disagreements over the timing of a world tour.
Mick Fleetwood explained, “We reached an impasse where we hit a brick wall.” Rolling Stone. “It was not a pleasant situation for us in terms of the logistics of having a working band. To that end, we decided we couldn’t go along with that. The majority rules on what we have to do as a band and move forward.”
Buckingham sued the group in October 2018 for allegedly abandoning “43 years of camaraderie and friendship” and excluding them from the band’s lucrative 2018–19 world tour. In the case, obtained by rolling stonee, he accused his bandmates of ostracizing him and “refusing to provide an explanation for his alleged expulsion from Fleetwood Mac”.
Two months later, Buckingham dismissed the suit after reaching a private settlement. In 2019, he suffered a heart attack and underwent surgery.
Last week, Buckingham gave a glimpse of his plans for 2026 in a post on Instagram. “I’m still very connected to my creative life,” he said. “I’ve been working on a new solo album for the past few years, which is just one song away from completion.” He also said that an upcoming Fleetwood Mac documentary could come out this year and seemed to be hinting at some kind of reunion with Stevie Nicks.
In particular, Buckingham acknowledged his complicated relationship with Knicks. He suggested the decision to re-release their 1973 debut album, buckingham nicksFor the first time in decades, a basis for reconciliation was reached last year.
“I think at a more general level, just in terms of what energy buckingham nicks He said, “I think massively, there’s been a resurgence of the relationship between Stevie and I, it feels like it’s something in the air.” “And what that means specifically, I don’t want to guess yet. But I believe with all my heart that it will be something good, and something wonderful, and something necessary, and something extremely appropriate.”
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