Woman held on suspicion of attempted murder after shooting at singer Rihanna’s home
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Rihanna's mansion in Hollywood Hills was broken into twice in 2018.
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Christina Morales and Matt Stevens
LOS ANGELES – A Florida woman has been booked into a Los Angeles jail on suspicion of attempted murder after the American police said she fired several rounds at a mansion belonging to Barbadian pop star Rihanna on March 8.
No injuries were reported and the woman was taken into custody, Sergeant Jonathan De Vera of the Los Angeles Police Department said.
On March 9, a spokesperson for the department identified the woman as Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35. Jail records indicate that she is being held on roughly US$10 million (S$12.7 million) bail.
An attempt to reach Ortiz via an e-mail address listed for her in court papers was not immediately successful. In the records, she lists her address as in Orlando, Florida.
Around 1.15pm on March 8, officers responded to a call about shots fired on a block just north of Beverly Hills, California, the department said in a statement.
The police said the motive for the shooting was under investigation. They recovered a weapon and turned the investigation over to the robbery homicide division, which handles high-profile cases.
A representative for Rihanna, 38, did not respond to a request for comment on March 8. The singer-actress and her partner, American hip-hop artiste A$AP Rocky, have three children aged five months, two and three.
A$AP Rocky, 37, born Rakim Mayers, was acquitted by a Los Angeles jury in February 2025 on two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The charges were related to an altercation with his former friend Terell Ephron, a rapper known as A$AP Relli, near a Hollywood hotel in 2021.
This is not the first time Rihanna’s home has been attacked. In 2018, her mansion in Hollywood Hills was broken into twice. NYTIMES
