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Sheriff Says No One Was Stabbed at Jamie Foxx’s Halloween Party, but Three Fights Are Under Investigation
The first reports from the Thousand Oaks bash described a knife attack. Two days later, Ventura County investigators said the neck wound came from “mutual combat” and asked attendees for phone video.
California Fried Journalist · November 11, 2026 · crime
The reported stabbing at Jamie Foxx’s annual Halloween party was not a stabbing, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office says. Investigators are still looking into three separate fights at the event, which drew an estimated 3,000 or more people to the actor’s estate in the Hidden Valley area of Thousand Oaks.
Deputies and emergency crews responded Saturday evening, Nov. 7, to a report of a stabbing in the 1300 block of West Potrero Road, the Los Angeles Times reported. Officers were told that a “juvenile victim” had a superficial neck wound believed to be from a knife. They arrested a juvenile male on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
On Nov. 9, after speaking with the injured guest, detectives concluded otherwise. “Per their investigation it was determined the victim was not assaulted with a knife, and the injury appears to be from a mutual combat/simple battery,” Sgt. Sean Taylor wrote in a statement posted on Nixle, according to AllHipHop.
While deputies were at the scene, they saw a second assault, in which a juvenile male kicked another person in the head, the sheriff’s office said. That teenager was arrested, and the injured person was treated at the scene. A day after the party, a third person reported being punched and kicked repeatedly after falling in a mosh pit near the concert stage. He said he lost consciousness and woke to find his phone and money gone. Detectives later found the phone in the party’s lost and found and returned it.
Video published by TMZ showed deputies and private security among partygoers in costume on the mansion’s lawn, with several people detained. The event, billed on social media as Skvlkfest, advertised carnival rides and live music and had been postponed to Nov. 7 because of weather, the Times reported. Organizers and the homeowner had arranged private security and on-site medical staff, according to the sheriff’s statement as reported by AllHipHop.
It was not clear whether Foxx, 58, was home that evening. A representative for him did not respond to the Times. He bought the 7,000-square-foot property for $10.5 million in 2007.
The sheriff’s East County Investigations Bureau is asking anyone who recorded the incidents on a phone to come forward. Ventura County Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 for information that leads to an arrest and criminal complaint.
Mark Groubert added the story to Wednesday’s lineup at the last minute and read TMZ’s early account of a stabbing, men in handcuffs and ambulances outside. He argued that the trouble at parties like this one rarely starts with the person throwing them. “It’s usually not the host,” he said, pointing instead to the size of the guest list.
He closed the brief item with a wish for the injured. “Hopefully the people survive the knifings in the neck,” he said. He said he would follow up. The sheriff’s office had issued its correction two days before the show, finding that no one was cut with a knife.