Woman armed with a knife arrested at Drake’s Toronto mansion

Drake had quite the scare this week after a woman with a knife and a metal pole was arrested outside of his Toronto Bridle Path home. 

According to various outlets, police and other first responders were called to Drake’s home around dinnertime on March 30, where a woman was causing a disturbance outside. According to Const. Alex Li, a spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service, no one was injured and no one accessed the gated mansion or property.

“I haven't been updated on any charges or circumstances," Li told CBC News late Tuesday night.

Li also declined to comment as to whether weapons were involved, although other outlets report the unnamed woman had a knife and reportedly attacked a private security officer with a metal pipe. Toronto paramedics were also on the scene for a possible assault, but they left with no patients and police cleared the scene, according to CBC. 

“It was a frantic scene that looked serious,” one witness told the Toronto Sun. Another unnamed source added to the publication that the woman didn’t get anywhere near Drake, although it’s unclear if he was home at the time.

Fans are familiar with Drake’s $50 million custom-made mansion from his April 2020 “Toosie Slide” video, in which he took viewers on a tour of his lavish property.

The mansion is basically something you’d expect to see in an episode of Cribs, and at 50,000 square-feet the home also comes with a regulation-sized indoor basketball court, a 21-square-foot pyramidal skylight, and a 3,200-square-foot primary bedroom with another thousand square feet of covered terraces. 

According to the rapper, The Embassy, as his home is named, was a passion project.

“Because I was building it in my hometown, I wanted the structure to stand firm for 100 years. I wanted it to have a monumental scale and feel,” Drake previously told Architectural Digest. “It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong,” he added.

“It’s overwhelming high luxury. That message is delivered through the size of the rooms and the materials and details of the floors and the ceilings. I wanted to make sure people can see the work I’ve put in over the years reflected from every vantage point.”

This isn’t the first time he has faced a security issue, however. In 2017 a female fan in her 20s broke into his home in Hidden Hills, California where she took some pop and a bottle of water. At the time, she was charged with felony burglary, but Drake requested to drop the charges as he believed the woman was dealing with mental health issues.

Roughly three months later, she returned to Drake’s home and tried to talk her way past security. When that didn’t work and police were called, she reportedly spat at the officers who then pepper-sprayed her. She was arrested for trespassing and assault on a police officer.

So far, at time of press, no official charges have been laid against the woman in Toronto, and Drake has not yet commented on the situation.

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