Brian Littrell has trouble at his Florida house, suit says. Now he’s suing cops
Keep off my lawn!
Brian Littrell needs more than a sign to keep trespassers away from his home in Florida’s Panhandle. The Backstreet Boys member has taken the legal route, The Daily Mail first reported.
In the suit against the Walton County Sheriff’s office, Littrell accuses authorities of refusing to help control random folks from sunbathing on his private property in Santa Rosa Beach.
The lawsuit filed last month under Littrell’s LLC, BLB Beach Hut, is to “compel the Sheriff to do their duty and enforce the private property rights [by preventing] all unauthorized people on the petitioner’s property,” the complaint says.
The boy bander and his wife Leighanne Wallace purchased the three-bedroom retreat in 2023 for $3.8 million. Littrell alleges that despite putting up multiple “No Trespassing” signs as well as setting out chairs and tables “delineating the property,” both tourists and locals continue to descend.
Moreover, Littrell claims that the unwanted visitors “antagonize, bully and harass” him and his family “in open defiance of the law.”
The issue with interlopers has been going on almost immediately since the couple moved in. In a TikTok video Littrell and his wife are seen arguing with beachgoers about property lines.
The papers say that the ‘90s fave turned Christian music artist had already complained to the sheriff’s office and even provided paperwork that said his parcel of land is private, but to no avail.
“Despite numerous requests and execution of the required forms, the Sheriff has refused to come to the subject’s property [to] remove, charge or take any action,” the suit claims.
According to Florida’s customary use law, the public has the right to recreate on the wet sand area seaward of the the mean high-water line, aka MHWL, the legal boundary between private property and public access.
This means that while private property owners have control over their beachfront property, they cannot restrict public beach access below the MHWL.
In other words, curiosity seekers can stroll by the Littrells’ house with their feet in the water, but can’t stop to hang out and grab some rays.
That’s what randoms are doing though, says the pop star’s Deerfield Beach based lawyer Peter Ticktin.
“If they were just walking by, fine,” said the attorney. “But they’re putting down blankets and sitting there looking in the windows, playing radios.”
As per court documents viewed by the Miami Herald, the sheriff’s office was served on Wednesday. Officials from WCSO did not immediately respond to the Herald’s request for comment.
This story was originally published July 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM.
