{"id":372738,"date":"2026-04-03T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:38:13","slug":"woman-tied-to-lindsey-buckingham-restraining-order-speaks-after-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372738\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Tied to Lindsey Buckingham Restraining Order Speaks After Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe woman Lindsey Buckingham<\/a> filed a restraining order against in 2025 and who claims to be his daughter has admitted to a local news station that she visited him last week, as reports emerged that the ex\u2013Fleetwood Mac guitarist was approached by an assailant <\/a>and had an unknown substance thrown on him in Santa Monica last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichelle Dick, 54, has not been arrested in the March 25 attack, which was widely reported more than a week after it occurred. Police in Santa Monica told The Hollywood Reporter that the case is being investigated jointly by two departments. The famed \u201cHoliday Road\u201d singer was arriving at an appointment when a woman threw an \u201cunknown substance\u201d at him, according to multiple reports. Authorities in Los Angeles described the woman as a \u201cstalking suspect\u201d known to Buckingham from past incidents involving him and his family.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Threat Management Unit is working with the Santa Monica Police Department to investigate this incident,\u201d the LAPD said in a statement sent to THR on Thursday. \u201cTo protect the integrity of the open and ongoing investigation, no further comment will be provided at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn court documents filed in Los Angeles last year, Buckingham sought a restraining order against Dick, who claims the 76-year-old married father of three is her biological father. According to court records, Dick was spotted outside the Buckingham family\u2019s Brentwood home multiple times over the years and allegedly harassed the family; a call to 911 to report an injury inside the home, leading to Buckingham being handcuffed by responding officers, was the inciting incident that led the legendary guitarist to take the situation to the courts.<\/p>\n

\n\tDick allegedly targeted Buckingham\u2019s wife, Kristen Messner, with menacing phone calls that included threats to her life. His children were also contacted by Dick via phone and social media. At one point, the family chose not to press charges after she halted her harassment campaign, according to KTLA<\/a>, whose reporter Sandra Mitchell spoke with Dick following news of the recent attack.<\/p>\n

\n\tA detective in the threat management unit\u00a0supported Buckingham\u2019s petition for a restraining order in Los Angeles Superior Court last November, telling the judge that Dick believed she was his child and was dangerous and mentally unstable.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne time \u2014 that was last year,\u201d she told Mitchell when asked about sightings at Buckingham\u2019s home. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t know I had a restraining order on me. He wasn\u2019t a father to me, but he\u2019s my birth father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDick told KTLA she is currently living in her car. The LAPD said it is the lead agency in the investigation, as the suspect is linked to other incidents in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tBuckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974 alongside his then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks. During his tenure, the band saw its greatest success, including a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit (\u201cDreams\u201d in 1977) and four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200: Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977), Mirage (1982), and The Dance (1997). Buckingham exited Fleetwood Mac in 1987 and released his solo debut, Law and Order, in 1981; he has since recorded seven solo albums. He returned to the band in 1997 and remained until his dismissal in 2018, which led to a lawsuit against Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, and John McVie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman Lindsey Buckingham filed a restraining order against in 2025 and who claims to be his daughter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,178975,85,46,20161],"class_list":{"0":"post-372738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fletwood-mac","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-lindsey-buckingham"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}