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Police are investigating Natalie Portman, her husband Benjamin Millepied and A-list friend Sacha Baron Cohen's lockdown boat ride after community outrage.
Daily Mail Australia this week published pictures of the celebrity set cruising about Sydney's north on a rented boat with their respective children on Monday morning.
Locals fumed about the high profile group's weekday activities given greater Sydney residents have been ordered to stay home except for 'essential' reasons, due to an alarming outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.
A NSW Police Force spokeswoman on Friday confirmed officers are now probing the boat excursion.
'NSW Police have been made aware of community concerns regarding a boat ride and are conducting inquiries into the matter,' the spokeswoman said.
Is that really an essential outing? Natalie Portman (centre) and her husband, Benjamin Millepied (left), headed out for a leisurely boat ride north of Sydney with Sacha Baron Cohen (right) during Sydney's Covid lockdown on Monday
The large group seemed in good spirits as they lapped up the winter sunshine in Pittwater, in the city's northern beaches region.
Mr Millepied got behind the steering wheel while leading lights of acclaimed films Black Swan and Borat watched on.
But the group jaunt wasn't seen as favourably by locals, who took to social media to vent.
'So nice that Hollywood celebs get to enjoy Sydney Harbour during lockdown,' tweeted Australian BBC correspondent Frances Mao.
Ms Mao noted police had deployed 100 extra officers to the multicultural south-west Sydney region to ensure compliance with the public health orders.
'What lockdown?' added journalist Ben Grubb. 'Recreational
