{"id":55465,"date":"2025-11-29T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55465\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:41:23","slug":"backstreet-boys-singer-brian-littrell-embroiled-in-bitter-legal-battle-over-beach-at-his-florida-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55465\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell embroiled in bitter legal battle over beach at his Florida home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell is embroiled in a bitter legal battle<\/a> with a neighbor he claims has \u201cset out to antagonize, bully, and harass\u201d his family by trespassing on his $3.8 million Florida panhandle beachfront property and secretly recording videos, court papers allege.<\/p>\n

Littrell, 50, filed suit against Carolyn Barrington Hill, 67, on Sept. 19 accusing her of repeatedly coming onto his Santa Rosa Beach oceanfront property from April through September, despite the fact he\u2019s \u201cput up several \u2018No Trespassing\u2019 signs, along with chairs, umbrellas, and small tables delineating\u201d his property line, according to the Walton County Circuit Court lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Brian Littrell accused a local, Carolyn Hill, of repeatedly trespassing on his oceanfront home in Florida. Facebook\/Shoreline Defender<\/p>\n

Hill \u2014 who described herself in court papers as \u201csemi-retired\u201d and \u201con Medicare\u201d \u2014 is accused of \u201cshouting and cursing at [the Littrell family] property manager and setting up various chairs and other pieces of beach furniture,\u201d all while refusing to move when she was told she was on their property, the suit claims.<\/p>\n

During one May 4 confrontation, Hill was kicked off their beach by a Walton County Sheriff\u2019s Officer, the filing says.<\/p>\n

The boy band star and his family \u201cwere forced to hire security to protect them,\u201d from the pesky neighbor, the court papers say.<\/p>\n

Littrell claimed Carolyn Barrington Hill (pictured) refused to leave his beach, harassed his family and took secret videos of them. WMBB<\/p>\n

The suit accused Hill of trespassing on April 26, May 4, May 25, June 11, Aug. 5, Aug. 17, and on Sept. 6., refusing to leave and videotaping the family without their consent or knowledge.<\/p>\n

The alleged harassment caused Littrell, his wife Leighanne Littrell \u2014 who is also a plaintiff \u2014 and his family \u201cemotional distress\u201d and interfered with their \u201cuse and enjoyment\u201d of their beach, the filing claims.<\/p>\n

The Littrells and their company, BLB Beach Hut, LLC are suing Hill for unspecified damages.<\/p>\n

Littrell\u2019s lawyer, Peter Ticktin, told The Post in a statement that when Littrell first bought the house \u201che was in heaven\u201d when \u201che saw his dream coming true where he and his family could buy and own a house on a beautiful private beach as his backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Littrell\u2019s $3.8m home, far left, on Santa Rosa Beach. Google Street<\/p>\n

Littrell also previously sued the local sheriff\u2019s office for allegedly failing to keep trespassers off of his land. Daniel DeSlover\/ZUMA Press \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

But things took a turn when Hill and other neighbors started to \u201csquat on the beaches and trespass in open defiance of reasonable and polite requests to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyer claimed that things reached a fever pitch after the Littrells won a court battle over where property lines lay on beachfront properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we won that case, Ms. Hill started to openly accuse those who had properties along the strip of the beach which were privately owned, of stealing their properties,\u201d the lawyer claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has taken it upon herself to make a public campaign, making my clients look like they are terrible people who stole the beach for which they paid an awful lot of money,\u201d Ticktin alleged. \u201cThey stole nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Littrell\u2019s property manager has been accused on social media of threatening trespassers with a drill. Instagram\/shorelinedefender<\/p>\n

Hill last month filed a motion to dismiss the claims against her, arguing the lawsuit was legally deficient.<\/p>\n

In the Sunshine State, sand below the high tide water mark is public, while dry sand above the high tide line can be privately owned, though some towns have passed rules allowing the public to use even privately owned beaches.<\/p>\n

The Littrell company, BLB Beach Hut, LLC, bought the 1,574-square-foot, three-bedroom, four-bathroom home in 2023 for $3.8 million.<\/p>\n

Littrell\u2019s lawyer, Peter Ticktin, said his client worked hard to become successful and was in heaven when he was able to buy the Florida panhandle home. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The \u201cI Want It That Way,\u201d singer sued the Walton County Sheriff\u2019s Office in July claiming the law enforcement agency wasn\u2019t doing enough to protect his Gulf property from trespassers.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the status was of the suit against Sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

A hearing for Hill\u2019s motion to dismiss Littrell\u2019s case is scheduled for Dec. 11.<\/p>\n

A video released in 2023 showed Leighanne insisting that a beachgoer, who set up a sunbathing spot on her property, needed to move to the \u201cwater\u2019s edge.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Backstreet Boy stood silently holding up a \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d sign while his wife and the man argued. The man said at one point he\u2019s \u201cnot f\u2013king moving\u201d and told them to call the cops.<\/p>\n

The dispute over the Littrell\u2019s beach land has also been featured on the Instagram page Shoreline defender, with locals accusing the Littrell property manager of threatening them with a drill while he told people to leave the hotly contested shoreline spot.<\/p>\n

In one video, a cop told the manager, \u201cIf you go near someone else with that f\u2013king drill in your hand again, I\u2019m going to take you to jail. You get me? Do you understand me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Hill didn\u2019t immediately return a request for comment Friday. The Walton County Sheriff\u2019s office said in July it can\u2019t comment on pending litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with a neighbor he claims has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13113,7631,30247,3640,2850,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-55465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-backstreet-boys","9":"tag-beaches","10":"tag-brian-littrell","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-lawsuits","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}