Law enforcement officials and a spokesperson for former vice-president Kamala Harris said a trespasser was stopped at her Malibu home in California on Friday night.
Neither the former vice-president nor her husband, Doug Emhoff, were home at the time.
“Security personnel stopped an individual who illegally entered Vice-President Harris and Second Gentleman Emhoff’s property before the individual reached the home,” Harris spokesperson Eduardo Negrón said in a statement on Saturday, reported by Politico. “Vice-President Harris and Second Gentleman Emhoff were not present. They are grateful to the security and law enforcement personnel who responded swiftly.”
Malibu Lost Hills sheriff’s deputies responded to Harris’s home around 10.30pm that Friday night on a report of a “suspicious person”, according to a statement from the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department, after private security had stopped the individual.
“The individual who was outside of the property upon our arrival was warned and advised by deputies to leave the premises and left voluntarily without incident,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement. “A trespassing report was taken. Sheriff’s Malibu Lost Hills Deputies will increase patrols in the area as a precaution.”
The incident was originally reported by TMZ.
Vice-presidents in the US typically receive six months of Secret Service protection after leaving office. Former president Joe Biden extended Harris’s security detail to 18 months before leaving office. That extension was canceled in August 2025 by Donald Trump. Ex-presidents typically receive security protection for life.
Harris bought the home in the Point Dume area of Malibu for $8.1m this May, which prompted speculation that she would not run for president again. The celebrity studded retreat is typically seen as a place where people “downshift”, according to a Politico article at the time.
