A woman has been arrested for allegedly stalking and threatening Lindsey Buckingham for years before physically attacking the Fleetwood Mac frontman last month.
Michelle Dick, 55, was booked into custody in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Saturday (April 11), about a week after a Los Angeles judge signed a warrant for her arrest. Dick is being held in an Indiana jail without bail while prosecutors seek her extradition to California, according to court records reviewed by Billboard.
Dick requested a public defender during an initial court appearance on Monday (April 13), records show. Her next court date is set for April 27.
Last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Dick with a mix of felony and misdemeanor counts, including stalking, making criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon and battery.
Prosecutors allege Dick has stalked and repeatedly threatened Buckingham with violence since 2021. The harassment allegedly escalated to physical assault last month, when Dick is accused of hitting Buckingham with her car and dousing the musician with an unknown substance in two separate L.A. County incidents.
Buckingham previously won a restraining order in 2024 requiring Dick to stay away from his family and cease all contact. In court filings from that time, the singer and guitarist said Dick began calling him and his family members in 2021, claiming to be Buckingham’s child and threatening to kill them.
The restraining order petition also claimed Dick had called in threats to venues where Buckingham was performing in 2022. She then went away for a couple of years but allegedly returned in 2024, showing up at the family’s L.A. home and making more threatening phone calls.
“She is clearly mentally unfit and harbors delusions, which makes her scary to me and unpredictable,” wrote Buckingham in a court declaration.
Reps for Buckingham did not immediately return a request for comment on Dick’s arrest.
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