\nwas attacked on the street with an “unknown substance”. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Threat Management Unit is working with the Santa Monica Police Department to investigate this incident,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo protect the integrity of the open and ongoing investigation, no further comment will be provided at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police and media outlets have described the woman as a known stalker.<\/p>\n
It is believed the woman discovered the place and time of the musician\u2019s appointment and showed up to attack the singer.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s motive has not been reported.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac
\nwas attacked on the street with an “unknown substance”. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Buckingham was granted a permanent restraining order against an alleged stalker in December 2024, the Blast reported.<\/p>\n
The stalker, only known as \u201cMichelle\u201d, was allegedly harassing Buckingham and his wife since 2021.<\/p>\n
Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 with his then girlfriend Stevie Nicks. The group went on to win two Grammy awards, including Album of the Year for Rumours. <\/p>\n
He became known for his intricate guitar playing and for writing many of the band\u2019s best-known songs, including Go Your Own Way, Never Going Back Again and Second Hand News. <\/p>\n
Buckingham and Nicks broke up in 1976.<\/p>\n
He left the band in 1987 only to return to the band a decade later – then left again in 2018.<\/p>\n
Speaking about his last departure, Buckingham told People he was \u201cfired\u201d from the band because of Nicks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was all Stevie\u2019s doing,\u201d he said. \u201cStevie basically gave the band an ultimatum that either I had to go or she would go.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Nicks has denied his version of events with a public statement: \u201cTo be exceedingly clear, I did not have him fired, I did not ask for him to be fired, I did not demand he be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neil Finn replaced Lindsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
His replacement was Crowded House frontman Neil Finn who toured with the band until 2019.<\/p>\n
Fleetwood Mac\u2019s drummer Mick Fleetwood told the Herald in 2019 he was a huge fan of Finn.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only the artiste in him, but the songwriter and the singer in him is \u2013 for me and many other people, and especially for you folks there in New Zealand \u2013 something very special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buckingham has not yet released a comment on the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Threat Management Unit is working with the Santa Monica Police Department to investigate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[46794,89,1344,1558,28361,156,189699,2740,28710,78,116293,97244,12444,409,111,139,69,2737,1458,189700,1354],"class_list":{"0":"post-359462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-attacked","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-buckingham","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-fleetwood","15":"tag-former","16":"tag-guitarist","17":"tag-in","18":"tag-lindsey","19":"tag-los","20":"tag-mac","21":"tag-movies","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-star","26":"tag-targeted","27":"tag-vocalist","28":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}