Lindsey Buckingham, former guitarist for Fleetwood Mac, attacked by a woman in Santa Monica

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lindsey Buckingham was attacked by a pistillate successful Santa Monica connected Wednesday morning.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that a pistillate with a past of stalking Buckingham, 76, tossed an chartless substance toward the erstwhile Fleetwood Mac guitarist and vocalist from a instrumentality arsenic helium entered a gathering for an appointment. According to instrumentality enforcement, Buckingham was not harmed; the pistillate is known to the instrumentalist and had been the taxable of anterior enactment with the LAPD menace absorption unit.

Police judge the pistillate recovered retired erstwhile and wherever Buckingham had scheduled his appointment. She was not apprehended Wednesday morning, but an apprehension was expected soon.

Santa Monica constabulary and the LAPD are investigating the incident.

Representatives for Buckingham person not responded to a petition for comment.

In December 2024, Buckingham filed a petition for a restraining bid against Michelle Dick, who was 53 astatine the clip of that filing. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Scully granted the order, which mandates that Dick enactment astatine slightest 100 yards distant from Buckingham, his woman and his son. She was besides ordered not to harass oregon effort to marque interaction with him successful immoderate way.

In 2018, Buckingham divided with Fleetwood Mac and a ineligible conflict implicit mislaid wages with his erstwhile set ensued. Then, successful February 2019, Buckingham suffered a bosom onslaught and had to acquisition triple bypass surgery. During the process, the insertion of a breathing conduit damaged his vocal cords, leaving him questioning whether helium would ever beryllium capable to sing again, helium told The Times successful 2021.

He spent overmuch of the pandemic focusing connected his recovery.

“I’ll archer you what: Between the Fleetwood Mac worldly and the bosom attack, it’s each been humbling,” Buckingham said. “I’ve ne'er suffered from a deficiency of confidence, and sometimes could get carried distant with that successful the process of starring the band. But everything has pulled maine successful a small bit. I’m not arsenic assertive a idiosyncratic arsenic I was before, which is astir apt not a atrocious thing. It made maine look astir much — and go little self-involved, hopefully.”