A Los Angeles court has charged a woman with several serious crimes after she allegedly attacked musician Lindsey Buckingham. The woman has a past record of stalking him.
Michelle Dick, age 54, is facing charges for allegedly throwing an unknown substance at 76-year-old Buckingham on March 25th in Santa Monica, California.
According to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Dick is charged with seven crimes, including threatening someone, aggravated assault with a car, and significant property damage.
Dick also faced charges for stalking both Buckingham and another individual named Stephanie N., according to court records.
Following a series of related incidents, a court found enough evidence to charge Dick, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Bail has been set at $300,000.
Just over a year after receiving a permanent restraining order against Dick, Buckingham was targeted in a sudden attack. Authorities stated that Dick had been harassing Buckingham since 2021.
Court documents show that in 2021, a man named Dick started repeatedly calling Buckingham’s wife, falsely claiming to be his daughter.
Oh my god, you won’t BELIEVE what this guy, Dick, did to my idol, Buckingham! He seriously threatened to kill him and his whole family! Can you imagine?! And he didn’t stop there – he actually showed up at Buckingham’s house, like, uninvited! The worst part? He faked a 911 call just to get the police to swarm Buckingham’s home while he was SLEEPING! They woke him up, put him in HANDCUFFS… it’s just awful! I’m so furious on Buckingham’s behalf!
Dick told KTLA5 that she visited Buckingham’s home last year and spoke to him again just last month. She explained that she wasn’t arrested during either visit and was living in her car at the time.
Dick has an extensive history of brushes with the law prior to her incidents involving Buckingham.
In 2016, Dick was arrested in Alameda County, California, and charged with driving under the influence and assaulting a police officer.
She was charged with several minor offenses, including two related to refusing a blood alcohol test, one driving under the influence (DUI), and one for having a blood alcohol content of 0.08% or higher.
Dick also faces charges for injuring a police officer and for interfering with both officers and emergency medical technicians who were trying to do their jobs.
She ultimately pleaded no contest to driving under the influence, and admitted her blood alcohol level was excessively high.
As part of a plea deal, all other charges against her were dismissed. While she was initially sentenced to 20 days in jail, court records show she only served three days at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County.
She completed a three-year probation period that ended in January 2020, just before she became involved with Buckingham and his family.
Buckingham currently has a five-year restraining order against Dick, which is a continuation of a previous, temporary order. The initial temporary order ended on December 20, 2024. On that day, Buckingham and his wife both provided written statements at a court hearing in Los Angeles.
A statement from Buckingham, shared with the Daily Mail, revealed a disturbing story of how Dick allegedly terrorized him and his family.
According to court documents, Dick reportedly obtained his wife Kristen’s, 56, work phone number and repeatedly called her – sometimes dozens of times a day – for three months between late 2021 and early 2022.
He told the court that Dick had been harassing him with lengthy voice messages. These messages, he said, falsely claimed she was his child and also contained threats to kill him and his family.
I’ve been following this story, and it’s quite something. Apparently, back in 2021, this woman reportedly left several voicemail messages for Buckingham’s son, William, insisting she was the daughter of the famous rock star. She really seemed determined to get her story heard!
In a sworn statement, Buckingham firmly denied being Dick’s father and stated he had never met her. He also claimed the stalker accused him of causing facial disfigurements she experienced as a child and repeatedly asked him for money.
According to Dick, the police told him to stop contacting the Buckingham family in 2022, and he complied.
However, in September 2024, she reportedly resumed her harassment, leaving collages with pictures of Buckingham and Kristen’s faces in their mailboxes.
Buckingham and his wife didn’t find Dick at home, but they realized his wife had made the collage. They recognized it came from her Instagram and featured pictures of her.
Buckingham stated that after Dick began contacting Kristen, she had a security team placed at her home, as she lives apart from Buckingham.
But just a day after the collages appeared, one of Kristen’s guards spotted Dick’s car parked outside.
According to Buckingham, the security guard contacted the police, who followed Dick to the Pacific Coast Highway. They stopped her and reported that she was speaking incoherently, claiming he was her father and had tried to suffocate her when she was a child. The police let her go with a warning not to return.
In November, police reportedly went to Buckingham’s home, woke him up, and handcuffed him before taking him outside, all in response to a 911 call.
According to court testimony, emergency services received a call reporting that Prince William was inside Buckingham’s home and threatening to harm himself, and the caller claimed to have heard gunshots.
Buckingham testified that police searched the property for about twenty minutes before realizing it was a false alarm, at which point they removed his handcuffs.
Buckingham stated that police traced the 911 call to Ms. Dick’s phone, and that this was part of a continuing series of harassing and threatening actions directed at him and his family, according to a statement from an LAPD detective.
He stated that without someone to control her actions, he feared she might become physically violent towards him and his family.
The judge was convinced by his reasoning and extended the temporary restraining order, providing Buckingham with five years of protection from Dick until December 20, 2029.
The court order permanently required Dick to stay at least 100 yards away from Buckingham, Kristen, and William. It also prohibited her from threatening, harassing, or contacting the musician in any way.
Following the incident at Buckingham Palace this week, Dick finally spoke publicly in a strange interview that didn’t lessen the intense public interest in the situation.
She firmly repeated her assertion that she is the daughter of Buckingham, clarifying to KTLA, ‘He didn’t raise me, but he is my biological father.’
She also revealed that she contacted Buckingham the week before the incident and admitted to visiting his home again.
She stated she visited his home in Brentwood once last year, and claims she wasn’t aware a restraining order had been filed against her.
Records show a sheriff’s deputy attempted to deliver a restraining order to Dick in the Bay Area, where she appeared to be living, but was unable to do so.
It’s worth noting that the effort to deliver legal papers to Dick didn’t succeed until December 2025, roughly a year after the court approved the order for Buckingham.
As a lifestyle expert, I’m seeing a lot of support surrounding Buckingham right now. After that awful attack, his loved ones – friends and family – are naturally rallying around him, which is so important during a difficult time like this.
His daughter, 26-year-old Leelee Welles Buckingham, and her boyfriend, Axel Youngdale, were seen arriving at his home. She is his daughter with his current wife.
Leelee was spotted leaving her father’s home in Brentwood, looking worried and carrying her dog, Billy. She was dressed comfortably in sweats.
According to a statement made on December 20, 2024, Leelee and her mother were the first to bring Michelle Dick’s voicemails to the attention of detectives in 2021, which led to an investigation being opened on Dick.
Among the guests visiting Buckingham Palace this week was a man with silver hair, a security professional from the firm Lions 4 Security.
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