Michelle Dick was charged Friday in Los Angeles County with seven criminal counts after prosecutors said she stalked Lindsey Buckingham for years and attacked him in Santa Monica on March 25. A judge issued an arrest warrant and set bail at $300,000.
The complaint includes felony counts of making criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon involving a motor vehicle on March 19 and vandalizing Buckingham’s Mercedes-Benz S450 that same day. Prosecutors also charged Dick with stalking Buckingham and a second alleged victim, identified as Stephanie N., and with making a separate criminal threat against Buckingham on March 25, along with a misdemeanor battery charge tied to that incident.
Reports said the 76-year-old musician was attacked by an alleged stalker who tracked him to a location in Santa Monica. A law enforcement source said the woman allegedly threw a substance at Buckingham and fled, though it was not immediately clear whether the material was caustic. Buckingham was not injured.
The new case lands after Buckingham sought a restraining order against Dick in November 2024, saying the harassment had begun in 2021. In that filing, he said she was behind a swatting incident on Nov. 3, 2024, when he was briefly detained while Los Angeles police searched his Brentwood home. Buckingham said nearly a dozen officers descended on the house, that he was handcuffed after answering the door, and that he was released after about 20 minutes.
He also said Dick had used her cellphone to call 911 that night and falsely report that his son was suicidal inside the home and that she had heard gunshots. Det. Marisol Landeros later wrote that she contacted Dick on the same number used for the bogus call and that Dick admitted making it. Landeros wrote that she told Dick her behavior needed to stop.
Buckingham said in his restraining order petition that he was terrified the conduct could escalate into something physically dangerous to him and his family. He said the harassment began with dozens of phone calls, followed by long messages in which Dick claimed she was his child, blamed him for facial deformities she said she suffered as a child and demanded money.
The arrest warrant and bail order give prosecutors leverage as the case moves forward, but the unanswered question is whether the 2024 restraining order and the earlier police intervention were enough to stop conduct investigators now say continued into this spring.
