Stalker of Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is charged after 'unknown substance' horror assault

The woman with a criminal history of stalking Fleetwood Mac icon Lindsey Buckingham has been charged with multiple felonies by a Los Angeles court in connection with a recent attack on the musician.

Michelle Dick, 54, is accused of throwing an unidentified substance on Buckingham, 76, on March 25 in Santa Monica, California.

Dick faces a total of seven counts, including making criminal threats; assault with a deadly weapon involving a motor vehicle; and felony vandalism, according to legal documents reviewed by Rolling Stone.

Dick was also charged with stalking Buckingham and another person referred to as Stephanie N. in the court documents.

A warrant has been issued for Dick's arrest with a bail amount of $300,000, according to legal docs, as the court found probable cause to proceed with charging her amid a spate of linked incidents. 

The shock assault came a little over a year after Buckingham was granted a permanent restraining order against Dick, as officials said she has harassed Buckingham since 2021.

According to court filings, Buckingham said Dick had begun plaguing his wife with calls in 2021 claiming to be his biological daughter.

Buckingham accused Dick of threatening 'to kill me and my family,' turning up at his house and at one point even making a fake 911 call that resulted in the police descending on his property while he slept and clapping him in handcuffs.

Dick told KTLA5 on April 2 that she dropped by Buckingham's house 'last year' and confronted him as recently as last month. She said she hadn't been arrested at that time, and had been living in her vehicle. 

Dick has an extensive history of brushes with the law prior to her incidents involving Buckingham.

In 2016, Dick was arrested and accused of DUI and battering a peace officer in Alameda County, California.

She found herself faced with a raft of misdemeanor counts, including two of excessive blood alcohol/refusal, one of DUI, and one of driving while her blood alcohol level was at 0.08 percent or higher.

Dick was further charged with one count of battery with injury on a peace officer and one of resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace officer and EMT.

She ultimately pled no contest to driving while having a 0.08 percent or higher blood alcohol level, on top of which she admitted to having excessive blood alcohol.

All the other charges were dropped under the terms of her plea bargain, and although she was originally sentenced to 20 days behind bars, she only spent three days at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, according to court records.

She then served three years' probation ending January 2020 - the year before the start of her entanglement with Buckingham and his family. 

Buckingham's current, 'permanent' five-year restraining order against Dick is an extension of a temporary restraining order (TRO) he previously obtained against her. The TRO expired on December 20, 2024, on which day Buckingham and his wife both gave declarations at a hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Buckingham's declaration - obtained by the Daily Mail - provided a chilling account of the campaign of terror he claimed Dick waged against him and his family.

According to Buckingham, Dick allegedly acquired the business phone number of his wife Kristen, 56, and began plaguing her with phone calls 'dozens of times a day sometimes' over a three-month span in late 2021 and early 2022.

Speaking to the court, he accused Dick of 'leaving long drawn-out messages that included the claim that she was my child and threats to kill me and my family.'

She also allegedly left voicemails in 2021 for Buckingham's son William, 27, repeating her contention that she was the rock star's daughter.

Buckingham insisted in his sworn testimony that he was not Dick's father and that she was not in fact known to him personally at all. He made the further allegation that the stalker 'blamed me for facial deformities she apparently suffered as a child and demanded money.'

In his version of events, Dick was instructed by police to cease contacting the Buckingham family in 2022, so he let the matter drop. 

However in September 2024 she is said to have returned to the fray and left collages of Buckingham and Kristen's letterboxes with pictures of their faces.

Although they did not see Dick at their respective homes, Buckingham and his wife both 'knew she was the author of the collage because the collage was from her Instagram and had pictures of her on it.'

According to Buckingham's declaration, Kristen, who lives separately from him, had a security team installed at her house as a result of Dick's overtures.

However, shortly thereafter - just one day following the appearance of the collages - one of Kristen's guards caught sight of Dick parked out front.

The guard called the police, who tailed Dick all the way to the Pacific Coast Highway, where they stopped her and heard her 'rambling about me being her father and suffocating her as [a] child,' according to Buckingham. 'The police released her and told her not to come back.'

That November, the police allegedly arrived at Buckingham's house, woke him, handcuffed him and brought him outside on the basis of a 911 call.

The emergency services had reportedly been warned that Buckingham's son William 'was in my house and suicidal and that the caller had heard gunshots,' according to Buckingham's testimony in court.

Police allegedly searched the property for 20 minutes, discovered that they had received a false alarm and uncuffed Buckingham, he testified.

'I now know that the 911 call was traced to Ms. Dick's cell phone,' said Buckingham, citing a declaration by an LAPD detective: 'and was the latest in an unabated pattern of harassment and threatening acts against my family and me.'

He asserted that in the absence of 'restraint,' he was 'afraid her conduct may escalate into something physically dangerous to me and my family.'

His argument persuaded the judge enough that the TRO was extended to grant Buckingham five years of protection from Dick ending December 20, 2029.

The now 'permanent' restraining order stipulated that Dick remain 100 yards away from Buckingham, Kristen and William, and that she refrain from threatening or harassing the musician or contacting him at all.

After the attack on Buckingham this week, Dick broke her silence in a peculiar interview that did little to dissipate the cloud of morbid fascination hanging over her.

She doubled down on her previous claims that she was Buckingham's daughter, insisting: 'He wasn’t a father to me but he’s my birth father,' to KTLA.

Moreover she confessed that she approached Buckingham in the week before the attack, and admitted that she had paid another visit to his house.

She said that she dropped by his Brentwood home 'one time, that was last year,' while alleging that 'I didn't know I had a restraining order on me.'

Legal documents obtained by the Daily Mail show a sheriff's deputy tried and failed to serve Dick with the restraining order in the Bay Area, where she evidently lived.

Interestingly, the unsuccessful attempt to serve Dick took place in December 2025 - about a year after the judge granted Buckingham the order. 

Meanwhile Buckingham's friends and family have been flocking to his side in the wake of the shocking attack.

His 26-year-old daughter Leelee Welles Buckingham, whom he had with his current wife, was seen arriving at his house along with her boyfriend Axel Youngdale.

Bundled up in sweats and wearing an expression of concern, Leelee could be seen carrying her dog Billy as she emerged from her father's Brentwood property.

It was Leelee and her mother who in 2021 had first contacted detectives over Michelle Dick's voicemails, resulting in the opening of a file on Dick, according to Kristen's declaration at the hearing on December 20, 2024.

Mingled with the friends and relations visiting Buckingham this week was a silver-haired man from the executive protection firm Lions 4 Security.