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Rihanna<\/a>\u2018s star status nearly cost her her life last weekend during an attempted drive-by shooting at her Beverly Hills home.<\/p>\n Ivanna Lisette Ortiz allegedly drove up to the \u201cDiamonds\u201d singer\u2019s mansion and fired multiple rounds<\/a> from a semiautomatic weapon at the house, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n Ortiz, 35, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder and faces life in prison if convicted on the charges.<\/p>\n Following the shooting, cryptic posts were unearthed from Ortiz\u2019s social media channels and provided an eye-opening look at overbearing celebrity fans.<\/p>\n RIHANNA\u2019S BEVERLY HILLS HOME TARGETED IN BRAZEN DAYLIGHT SHOOTING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n According to Ortiz\u2019s Facebook, the self-employed suspect addressed Rihanna just weeks before the attack. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c@badgalriri \u2014 Are you there?\u201d she wrote. \u201c\u2019Cause I was waiting for your AIDS 5-head self to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you\u2019re talking to me where I\u2019m not at.\u201d<\/p>\n In a Dec. 20 post, Ortiz wrote that she was \u201calready through with Rihanna,\u201d before referencing another major A-list star.<\/p>\n \u201cI restricted that stupid b\u2014 Kim Kardashian<\/a>,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYour turn hiding b\u2014-, stop begging for a look.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, Ortiz hosted a daily prayer for 60 days on her YouTube channel. In her videos, Ortiz read Scripture and often referenced the devil\u2019s presence<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n ROSIE O\u2019DONNELL CONSIDERS RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST ALLEGED STALKER WHO HAS A \u2018FREAKY FOCUS\u2019 ON HER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cGod\u2019s presence is here, but so is the devil,\u201d Ortiz said in one video posted in January. \u201cThat\u2019s what we need to highlight. Sometimes we think it\u2019s just trials and tribulations, but we need to know and understand that we have an enemy. You have an enemy. There\u2019s an enemy\u2026 someone who wants to attack you. There\u2019s someone who wants to see you lose. There\u2019s someone who wants to kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the devil and I rebuke him in the name of Jesus,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m not going to let him take my dignity or my personality or my character or my heart\u2026 That\u2019s Satan. He wants to kill something beautiful, just like his Rihanna.\u201d<\/p>\n Ortiz was charged<\/a> with one count of attempted murder, 10 felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three felony counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her bail was set at $1.875 million. If convicted as charged, Ortiz faces up to life in prison.<\/p>\n \u201cOpening fire in any populated neighborhood is extremely dangerous, puts lives at risk and will be fully prosecuted,\u201d Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said. \u201cThankfully, no one was injured in this shooting, but this careless violence will not be tolerated in our community.\u00a0Such shooters will find their next destination to be our jails and prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n ARIANA GRANDE SILENCES PHOTOGRAPHERS AT \u2018WICKED\u2019 PREMIERE DAYS AFTER FAN RUSHED RED CARPET<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Rihanna\u2019s brush with an unwelcome visitor isn\u2019t anything new by Hollywood standards. Many celebrities \u2013 including Ariana Grande <\/a>and Justin Bieber<\/a> \u2013 have faced similar disturbing encounters.<\/p>\n During the worldwide \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d press tour, Grande was accosted by an overzealous fan at the Singapore premiere.<\/p>\n Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum were walking the yellow carpet to celebrate the upcoming release of the second \u201cWicked\u201d movie when the shocking moment happened.<\/p>\n A fan attending the premiere jumped over a barricade and rushed toward Grande, according to multiple videos from the event<\/u><\/a>. Once he reached her, he put his arm around her neck before Grande\u2019s co-star, Cynthia Erivo, immediately jumped in to pull him away.<\/p>\n ARIANA GRANDE RUSHED BY FAN AT \u2018WICKED\u2019 PREMIERE AFTER BARRICADE JUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The \u201c7 Rings\u201d singer received an unwanted surprise from a stalker in 2022 when he violated a restraining order and broke into her Montecito home on her 29th birthday, according to TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aharon Zebulun Israel Brown pleaded guilty to stalking charges in 2024 and was sentenced to three years in prison.<\/p>\n Justin Bieber has had multiple stalkers, including a New Mexico man<\/a> and his nephew who plotted to murder and castrate the pop singer in 2013.<\/p>\n The plan began after a man in prison attempted to contact Bieber with no response. He then recruited his nephew and another man to drive to the \u201cLove Yourself\u201d singer\u2019s home and castrate him with garden shears before murdering him, according to reports.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Bieber was outspoken about his feelings toward people who wait outside his home in a social media post in 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cHow can you convince yourself it\u2019s not completely inappropriate and disrespectful to wait outside my home to gawk, stare and take pictures as I walk into my apartment,\u201d he wrote at the time. \u201cThis is not a hotel. It\u2019s my home.\u201d<\/p>\n Taylor Swift<\/a> has had a number of stalkers throughout her career. Most recently, a Brooklyn man stalked the singer at her NYC home and \u201cacross multiple states,\u201d according to police. The man was arrested on July 2 and charged with \u201cstalking and criminal trespass.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re dead you know,\u201d the man allegedly spoke into Swift\u2019s Tribeca home<\/a> intercom on June 12, 2021. \u201cYou\u2019re holding her prisoner and I need to set her free.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2025,\u00a0the \u201cHoney\u201d singer was granted a restraining order<\/a> against an ex-convict who allegedly visited her Los Angeles home several times in the last year.<\/p>\n Fox News Digital\u2019s Christina Dugan Ramirez and Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n