Woman arrested carrying knife near Drake's mansion in Toronto
A woman allegedly armed with a knife was arrested near Canadian rapper Drake‘s mansion in Toronto while he was home and ‘hit a private security officer with a metal pipe,’ reports said on Tuesday.
The woman, who has not yet been named, was allegedly confronted by the ‘Hotline Bling’ rapper’s security outside of the mansion’s gate around 4.50pm, the reported.
Toronto Police responded around 5.30pm with seven police cars and and EMS vehicle, reported.
A woman allegedly armed with a knife was arrested near Canadian rapper Drake’s mansion in Toronto while he was home
Drake’s mansion sits on a two-acre lot and boasts about 35,000 square feet with two saunas, a massage room, a screening room and a full-sized indoor basketball court
The woman was reportedly detained by police before she was able to step foot on Drake’s sprawling estate and – who was home at the time of the incident
The woman allegedly struck a private security officer with a metal pipe and the guard’s injuries remain unknown, police sources told the outlet.
The outlet contested the report in The Toronto Sun and claimed that its sources said that the woman was not carrying a knife and a guard was not hit with a pipe.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Toronto Police Services for clarification and additional comment.
‘A female adult that was carrying a knife has been arrested. She did not gain any kind of entry into the property and there were no injuries,’ cops told .
‘It is not clear what she was doing at the residence but she had no communication whatsoever with the homeowner.’
Drake’s mansion sits on a two-acre lot and boasts about 35,000 square feet with two saunas, a massage room, a screening room and a full-sized indoor basketball court.
The estate, dubbed ‘The Embassy’, was built in late 2019 and is worth $100 million, according to
‘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 told.
‘It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong.’
A photo from Instagram shows Drake’s basketball court inside his sprawling Toronto mansion
Drake shows off his mansion in his new music video ‘Toosie Slide’ while on home isolation
A screenshot from Toosie Slide shows the inside of Drake’s mansion with Kobe shirts
Interior designer Ferris Rafauli told the outlet that ‘the structure is a proper 19th-century limestone mansion.’
‘This isn’t stucco, paint, and fake gold. That’s not what Drake wanted, and that’s not what I do,’ Rafauli said.
The mansion includes a great room with 44-feet high ceilings anchored by a concert grand piano made by Bösendorfer and designed by Rafauli with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
It also includes a copy of Lobmeyr’s Metropolitan chandelier which was designed by Hans Harald Rath exclusively for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1963 as a gift to the United States by the Republic of Vienna.
The home’s canary yellow lounge is seen in videos for his songs including ‘Toosie Slide’ include lavish furnishings made from dyed ostrich skin and mohair to macassar and bronze, according to Architectural Digest.
According to the outlet, his favorite spot in his crib is his 3,200-square-foot master-bedroom suite.
‘The bedroom is where I come to decompress from the world at the end of the night and where I open my eyes to seize the day,’ Drake told Architectural Digest.
The home also boasts an awards room from his days as an actor on Degrassi: april olsen lesbian strapon The Next Generation to his four Grammy Awards
Drake is pictured inside his kitchen, which includes the first stove from Rafauli’s new line for La Cornue