A yet-to-be-identified man from North Carolina was arrested for allegedly trying to sneak into Rihanna’s Los Angeles home to propose to the singer on Thursday.
According to reports, the unnamed man travelled to LA with the intention of proposing to Rihanna and was arrested at her Beverly Hills home around 12.30 pm for trespassing.
As soon as the man was spotted, Rihanna’s security detail stopped him and called the police.
When the man told security he wanted to ask for Rihanna’s hand in marriage, the team called police who initially handcuffed him before deciding to let him go; the man had not broken the law by approaching the singer’s house.
He was escorted out of the property in handcuffs where he was questioned and later released.
It is unknown whether the singer, who is expecting her second child with rapper A$AP Rocky, was at home at the time, but the man was eventually released and told never to return.
Rihanna owns a $14 million penthouse in Lower Manhattan. She also purchased a house in West London for £7 million in June 2018, to be closer to her work with her FENTY fashion label.
In December 2018, Rihanna put her Hollywood Hills mansion up for sale after a break-in six months before. The mansion was reported to have sold for $10.4m. Forbes began reporting on Rihanna’s earnings in 2012.
Known for her style and image, the media have constantly followed the evolution of Rihanna’s music and fashion sense. In 2009, New York magazine described Rihanna’s early look as that of “a cookie-cutter teen queen”, noting she has the ability “to shift looks dramatically and with such ease”.
Around the time of the release of her second studio album, A Girl like Me (2006), many critics felt that Rihanna’s style, sound and musical material were too similar to those of Beyoncé.
She revealed during Oprah’s Next Chapter that Def Jam’s pop-princess blueprint made her feel claustrophobic during her early years with the label.