STUDIO CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Actress Valerie Bertinelli on Wednesday shared surveillance video footage to social media that she said showed two men paneling her Studio City home, which is located in a neighborhood of which she said was plagued by a “string” of robberies.”
Bertinelli posted a video clip on her Instagram account, which has 1.1 million followers, showing a man wearing a backpack and holding a bag or suitcase while standing outside in the dark.
“We had a series of robberies in my neighborhood including my neighbor,” Bertinelli wrote in the caption. “This is one of the men who inspected my house last night. I think he stops because he sees my camera light up. The other came an hour before him. (expletive) scary.”
A security camera also caught another man also wearing a backpack and hat.
“The police came pretty quickly and checked the houses,” Bertinelli wrote. “I’m installing more motion sensors and thinking about putting barbed wire on my front fence and of course my alarm is set every night.”
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department told ABC7 that officers responded to a report of a “possible theft suspect” in the 3900 block of Berry Drive just before midnight on Tuesday. However, by the time officers arrived, the suspect was gone and there was no evidence of a crime, the spokesman said.
Bertinelli first rose to fame in 1975 when he wowed television audiences as the bubbly and precocious teenage Barbara Cooper on the groundbreaking sitcom One Day at a Time. In the decades since, Bertinelli has starred in other hit shows (“Hot in Cleveland” and “Touched by an Angel”), hosted an Emmy Award-winning Food Network program, and has written several best-selling books. From 1981 to 2007 she was married to legendary rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 65.
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