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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Garcelle Beauvais’ home was stormed by the Los Angeles Police Department after a 911 caller who claimed to be her ex said he was at the residence with a shotgun on Sunday, Jan. 25, according to reports.
The caller then promptly refused to meet police at the Porter Ranch home, and upon searching the residence, officers discovered no man and no shotgun on the property, as the caller claimed, LAPD sources told NBC Los Angeles. It is unclear if Beauvais, 59, was at her residence at the time of LAPD’s arrival.
Authorities believe the call was an incident of “swatting,” law enforcement sources told the outlet.
“Swatting is a malicious act that can involve placing false emergency calls to emergency responders, often reporting a (false) severe, ongoing crisis at a specific location,” according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “The goal of swatting is to provoke a significant law enforcement response, creating chaos and potentially resulting in violence.”
Beauvais’ other residence, a beach house, was similarly targeted in a swatting incident in the summer of 2025, she recounted in an October 2025 appearance on the Sirius XM show Radio Andy’s Smith Sisters Live.
In the episode, the NYPD Blue alum recounted having “11 teenagers” who were children’s friends staying over at the home.
“We’re having a great time, I had them from Thursday on. So by Saturday afternoon, I’m like, you know what? Everybody’s got to go. We’re going to go back home because if I don’t leave, they’re not leaving. We’re packing up. We’re all going home. Tell your parents to pick you up, whoever’s not driving. So we get back to our house, and my phone is blowing up,” the actress and producer recounted.
“So I look, and it’s my neighbor and she goes, our street is shut down, and there’s FBI cars in front of your house. And she goes, they want your number. And being Black, I’m like don’t give them my number,” she continued.
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“So about 20 minutes later, she calls me this time, and she said that my house was swatted,” Beauvais recounted.
“But I didn’t even know what that was, so I called Jaid and I go, ‘What is swatting?'” she said, in reference to her 18-year-old son Jaid.
“And he’s like, ‘Mom, they do it to YouTubers or streamers or somebody calls and says, there’s something crazy at your house. So FBI shows up, I have video of, like, rifles with lights on them,’ ” Beauvais recalled.
PEOPLE has reached out to a representative for Beauvais and the LAPD for comment.
Beauvais will soon reprise the role of Ava Denis in Lifetime’s Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love, a sequel to 2024’s Tempted by Love, arriving on Jan. 31.
