A Disney employee is in police custody today after welding a knife on the Fox lot. The LAPD were called at around 9:20 am after recipient a report that a 30-year-old woman was “acting aggressive towards security.”
Taken into custody by the LAPD, the woman is currently undergoing a “psych evaluation,” law enforcement sources tells us. She is not under arrest and has not been charged. The
The woman works on the Fox Studio lot, but doesn’t work for Fox directly. The suspect is a Disney employee, sources tell us. The incident happened near her office.
The employee has a physically been removed from the Fox lot for the foreseeable future, we hear.
Disney has leased space on the 53-acre Century City lot since the company acquired the bulk of Fox’s assets in a $71.3 billion deal finalized in 2019. In that context, a number of Disney staffers have offices and desks on the Fox lot.
Neither representatives for Disney nor Fox responded to request for comment on the matter.