{"id":248046,"date":"2026-04-02T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248046\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:22:22","slug":"fleetwood-macs-lindsey-buckingham-attacked-by-alleged-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248046\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood Mac&#8217;s Lindsey Buckingham attacked by alleged stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/article\/fleetwood-mac-reunion-buckingham-22156312.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Buckingham<\/a> was reportedly attacked by a zealous fan when arriving at an early morning appointment in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old former Fleetwood Mac guitarist was doused with an \u201cunknown substance\u201d by a woman when he walked into the Santa Monica building on Wednesday, April 1, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/investigations\/fleetwood-mac-lindsey-buckingham-attacked-santa-monica\/3869717\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC4 Investigates<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities told the outlet that the woman, who is being regarded as a stalking suspect, has been involved in past run-ins with Buckingham. It\u2019s unclear what type of appointment he was attending, but police believe she coordinated her attack with his scheduled engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham was not injured in the incident, law enforcement told NBC4 Investigates, and no arrests have been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes days after Buckingham began teasing a reunion with his ex-lover and former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks. Last year, the two previously reconciled to reissue their 1973 album \u201cBuckingham Nicks,\u201d their only studio release as a duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy in terms of what \u2018Buckingham Nicks\u2019 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\u2019s in the air,\u201d Buckingham said in an Instagram video shared Friday, March 27. \u201cAnd what that translates to specifically, I wouldn\u2019t want to speculate yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham\u2019s remark spurred speculation of new music or another form of collaboration from the two artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham and Nicks met while attending Menlo-Atherton High School, before eventually moving out of the Bay Area and famously joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindsey Buckingham was reportedly attacked by a zealous fan when arriving at an early morning appointment in California.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,7,330,101,103,102,104,106,105,2013],"class_list":{"0":"post-248046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-us-and-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}