The surprising reason why the FBI visited Ben Affleck’s house

Ben Affleck was shocked to find out that the FBI had showed up at his house while he was out.

The 52-year-old actor was asked about the incident during an interview with GQ magazine, in which he touches on other topics, including his his divorce from Jennifer Lopez and how he shares parenting duty of his three kids with ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.

FBI agents were spotted knocking on Affleck’s in Los Angeles mansion in January. Luckily, he wasn’t at home and only found out more about it from news posted online. Out of curiosity, he decided to investigate further.

Ben Affleck gets nowhere calling the FBI

“As it turns out, the FBI did, in fact, visit my house. But this is pretty revealing, right? So I come home, and I see there’s a story with sources that say, ‘Hey, the FBI was at your house.’ I’m like, ‘Well, this is strange.‘“ Affleck explained. “I call them and say, ’Hey, FBI, were you at my house? Do you want to talk to me?’ ‘Oh, we don’t know.’ I get transferred along. Finally somebody who is actually responsible for what was happening was like, ‘Oh, we had no idea that was your house.‘”

The actor had read an unconfirmed news story which claimed that the FBI investigation concerned an incident involving a drone that crashed into a helicopter.

“So the FBI went around and whoever lived there,” he continued. “The FBI rang their bell, but because there are photographers sitting outside and these guys have their FBI jackets on, then it’s: The FBI has visited your house.”

However, Ben eventually learned that the real reason for the visit which was related to “break-in of a federal official’s home” in his neighborhood.

Drone incident in Mandeville Canyon

“Whoever wrote the story made up something about how it was related to an investigation about a drone that I guess did crash into one of the helicopters two or three miles up Mandeville Canyon,” Affleck added. “Turns out, no, it wasn’t about that. In fact, we were very far from where the drone was. So it’s like: You’ve seen this event about the FBI at my house. I had no idea. My only involvement was to track it down, figure it out.”

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