{"id":1977321,"date":"2025-08-24T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1977321"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:02:46","slug":"lionel-richie-burglary-suspect-arrested-in-beverly-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lionel-richie-burglary-suspect-arrested-in-beverly-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie burglary suspect arrested in Beverly Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2Fcomp-authorities-arrested-one-suspect-110016089.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Authorities have arrested one suspect believed to be linked to a recent break-in at the\u00a0Beverly Hills home\u00a0of music legend Lionel Richie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that officers arrested a 38-year-old man early Friday morning near Wilshire Boulevard and Beverly Glen Boulevard on suspicion of residential burglary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the department does not release or confirm the identity of homeowners, multiple media outlets have reported the property belongs to Richie.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Beverly Hills Police Department stated that officers responded to a call around midnight on Aug. 22 about a\u00a0residential burglary. During the course of the investigation, the suspect was arrested a few blocks away from the home.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/22\/lionel-richie-beverly-hills-home-burglarized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TMZ<\/a>, Richie, best known for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/09\/21\/five-surprising-facts-about-richies-classic-all-night-long\/\">hits like \u201cAll Night Long\u201d <\/a>and \u201cHello,\u201d was home at the time of the incident. His home\u2019s security system was triggered and reportedly scared off the burglar, and nothing was stolen from the property.<\/p>\n<p>Beverly Hills police shared with Fox News Digital that the investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>An arrest was made in connection with the recent burglary at Lionel Richie\u2019s home. <span class=\"credit\">Redferns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>According to a spokesperson from the Beverly Hills Police Department, officers responded to a call around midnight on Friday about a\u00a0residential burglary. <span class=\"credit\">Google Earth<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reps for Richie did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted burglary comes just weeks after another high-profile burglary investigation in Los Angeles involving\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/26\/entertainment\/brad-pitts-los-angeles-home-burglarized-report\/\">Brad Pitt\u2019s\u00a0former home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brad Pitt\u2019s home was also recently broken into. <span class=\"credit\">Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Authorities arrested four suspects believed to be linked to a string of residential burglaries, including at Pitt\u2019s home. <span class=\"credit\">@CelebCandidly \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/12\/entertainment\/4-arrested-for-burglarizing-brad-pitts-la-home\/\"> authorities arrested four suspects<\/a> believed to be linked to a string of residential burglaries across Southern California, including the break-in at Pitt\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Los Angeles Police Department stated at the time that officers from the Northeast division responded to a call in the 2300 block of Edgemont Street at around 10:30 p.m. on June 25. According to the report, three individuals allegedly scaled a fence, entered the yard, broke in through a front window and proceeded to \u201cransack\u201d the property.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt\u2019s representative declined to comment on the matter at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects reportedly took various items before fleeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pitt was not at home during the June 25 incident. He was away promoting his film \u201cF1.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have arrested one suspect believed to be linked to a recent break-in at the\u00a0Beverly Hills home\u00a0of music legend Lionel Richie.\u00a0 The Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that officers arrested a 38-year-old man early Friday morning near Wilshire Boulevard and Beverly Glen Boulevard on suspicion of residential burglary.\u00a0 While the department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1977322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[353542,352580,25825,353543,21751,21741,29826],"class_list":["post-1977321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-arrest","tag-beverly-hills","tag-brad-pitt","tag-burglaries","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-lionel-richie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lionel-Richie-burglary-suspect-arrested-in-Beverly-Hills.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}