Ben Affleck wasn’t at LA home when FBI came knocking, had to ‘track down’ reason for visit

Ben Affleck shared the “strange” reason the FBI visited his home amid the Palisades fire earlier this year.

FBI agents were photographed outside Affleck’s home in January, and the “Argo” star revealed he wasn’t even home at the time. Affleck only learned about the visit through media headlines.

“As it turns out, the FBI did, in fact, visit my house,” he told GQ in the April cover issue. “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.’ So 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.’ There was a break-in of a federal official’s home in that area.”

“So the FBI went around and whoever lived there, 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.”