Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham was attacked on Wednesday, April 1, in Los Angeles, Luxury Handbag Shopping can confirm.
Buckingham, 76, was entering a building in Santa Monica for an appointment on Wednesday when a woman threw an “unknown substance” at him and ran off, according to NBC4 Investigates, which was first to report the news.
Police described the woman as a “stalking suspect,” whom Buckingham knows from past incidents, per the outlet. The woman has since been identified, but no arrests were reported as of Wednesday morning.
Buckingham was reportedly not injured during the alleged attack and the incident is under investigation.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told Us in a statement on Wednesday, “Our threat management unit is handling the investigation.”
Luxury Handbag Shopping has reached out to the Santa Monica Police Department and a representative for Buckingham for comment.
Buckingham is a California native, born in Palo Alto. He became famous after joining Fleetwood Mac in 1974, alongside Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and John McVie. (The British American band originally formed in 1967.)
Buckingham was featured on eight studio albums during his time with the band, including 1975’s Fleetwood Mac, 1977’s Rumours, 1979’s Tusk and 2003’s Say You Will. He won two Grammy Awards with the group as well. However, he was dismissed from the rock band in 2018.
Over the years, Buckingham had a complicated relationship with Nicks, who was his girlfriend when they both joined the band.
“I met her when I was about 16,” Buckingham recalled in a 2009 BBC documentary about Fleetwood Mac. “It’s been most of my life. Sadly, for the lion’s share of those years, there has been distance and animosity of some kind, mixed in with everything else too. It’s never been just one thing.”
Buckingham and Nicks, 77, broke up in 1976 after four years of dating, but they remained part of Fleetwood Mac. Their tumultuous relationship endured and continued to affect their working relationship before Buckingham was booted from the group in 2018.
While Buckingham claimed Nicks had something to do with his departure, she told Rolling Stone in 2021, “I did not demand he be fired. Frankly, I fired myself. I proactively removed myself from the band and a situation I considered to be toxic to my well-being. I was done. If the band went on without me, so be it.”
In 2022, bandmate Christine died at the age of 79 and Nicks later revealed that she spoke with Buckingham at the funeral for a few minutes.
Three years later, Nicks confirmed on the “Song Exploder” podcast that the exes were on better terms. “Lindsey and I started talking about it last night. This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us,” she shared in 2025.
