Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were stolen earlier this month, police said.
According to local officials, the home of the married couple in Montecito, in Santa Barbara County, California, was attacked due to its status as the home of several celebrities.
KEYT, a network licensed to Santa Barbara, said “high-value jewelry and watches” were taken when the house was stolen on July 4.
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Law enforcement officials are reportedly working to see if there is a link to similar raids on celebrity homes in the area.
In October 2018, the houses of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Alanis Morissette and David Spade were said to have been burglarized.
Detectives are said to be investigating the crime with forensic technicians.
DeGeneres, 62, has been posting regular videos of herself at the mansion during the lockdown. She has been presenting parts of her television series, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, from there, too.
The host was criticized after comparing the confinement to “being in jail,” and one person replied, “Ellen, that you quarantine your mansion in designer sweatshirts is nothing like prison.”
Earlier this month, representatives of the presenter’s production company said there were no plans to cancel his chat show despite reports of low ratings.
DeGeneres, who is reportedly worth $ 330m (£ 264m). She also found herself at the center of the “bad” accusations, with many people claiming to have worked for the presenter sharing stories of her allegedly offbeat behavior.
The stories began to circulate after comedian Kevin T Porter told Twitter that he would donate $ 2 to a food bank in Los Angeles for each “crazy story” his followers repeated about DeGeneres, whom he called “notoriously one of the baddest people in the world. “
DeGeneres, who got married Development arrested Rossi’s actor in 2008 declined to comment.
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