Thieves broke into Tracee Ellis Ross’s Los Angeles home over the weekend and reportedly got away with more than $100,000 in jewelry and handbags, according to multiple media reports.
The 52-year-old “Black-ish” and “Girlfriends” actor was not at home at the time of the break-in, which unfolded in the early morning hours of Aug. 31.
According to the Los Angeles Times, police said three suspects broke through a glass door and into the home and that footage of the burglary was caught on the house’s security cameras.
The incident was reported to police by Ross’ staff members and is under investigation.
The daughter of Motown icon Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein now joins a growing list of celebrities whose homes have been ransacked.
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Tracee Ellis Ross attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sept. 13, 2021, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue ) -
Eddie Murphy, left, and Tracee Ellis Ross, cast members in “Candy Cane Lane,” pose together at the Four Seasons Hotel, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) -
Tracee Ellis Ross arrives at the Billboard Women in Music Awards on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Most recently, Brad Pitt’s Los Feliz home was broken into while the actor was out of the country doing press for the movie “F1.”
In that case, three suspects climbed the property’s front fence and cased the exterior of the home before shattering a living room window. An unknown amount of the star’s property was taken. Four people were eventually arrested in the case.
The homes of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban and Los Angeles Football Club star Olivier Giroud were broken into by thieves earlier this year, the latter of which reported some $500,000 in jewelry stolen from the residence.
In early December, security guards chased four masked intruders off actor, writer and director Tyler Perry’s property in Beverly Ridge Estates, leaving behind a backpack full of tools like crowbars, gloves and a cellphone.
Luckily for Perry, his on-site security personnel spotted the trespassers using thermal imaging and were able to intercept them as they were walking through shrubs on the property.
Just months before that, burglars attempted to get into the L.A. home of celebrity couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson in the Pacific Palisades. Again, a window was smashed, but the couple’s alarm was triggered, and the thieves did not gain entry.