Denise Richards has been granted a brief restraining order towards estranged husband Aaron Phypers after accusing him of bodily abuse, it has been claimed.
The Wild Issues actress, 54, married the Leap actor, 52, in 2018, after round a 12 months of relationship.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t to final and he filed for divorce earlier this month after six years of marriage, citing ‘irreconcilable variations’.
On July 16, the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills favourite requested safety from the courtroom towards her ex, pleading for him to remain at the very least 100 yards away from her after alleging that he was repeatedly violent.
TMZ experiences that the paperwork has been granted.
In courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, she claimed: ‘All through our relationship, Aaron would continuously violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with each fingers, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, aggressively slam my head into the lavatory towel rack, threaten to kill me, maintain me down along with his knee on my again to the purpose the place I must plead with him to get off me in order that he wouldn’t kill me and hack into my laptop computer and telephone and obtain all of my textual content messages.
‘Aaron often threatened to “break my jaw” and would cry, beg me to remain, and promise to get assist – none of which ever occurred.
‘Aaron has precipitated me at the very least three concussions. Aaron has advised me that he has left recording gadgets to document me whereas I used to be alone in lodge rooms and at my townhouses.’
In accordance with the outlet, she connected two images of a black eye from January 17 to her submitting, and alleged that he struck her within the eye.
Simply days earlier than Phypers filed for divorce, Richards alleged that he ‘repeatedly acquired inside two inches of [her] face and screamed… degrading profanities, together with calling me a “c*** w***e” and a “piece of s**t.”
‘Aaron repeatedly grabbed my left arm tightly.’
The OnlyFans mannequin claimed that he got here to her house the next day and yelled comparable insults, earlier than chasing her, forcefully grabbing each of her arms and dragging her to the bottom.
‘I landed on the steps, inflicting immense ache,’ she reportedly stated. ‘Aaron stole my laptop computer and despatched personal messages he had stolen from my laptop computer with out my permission.
‘Aaron threatened that I’d “disappear” if I known as the police.’
Richards additionally accused Phypers of downloading the contents of her iCloud, together with personal messages, and transferring them to his laptop computer whereas she slept.
She alleged that he ‘smashed’ the highest of her head along with his palm whereas she was within the toilet, demanding her telephone.
The Pals star additionally claimed that her former accomplice owned eight unregistered weapons, and knowledgeable her that ‘as a result of the weapons are unregistered that if he used them, nobody would be capable of monitor them’.
Within the paperwork, she reportedly defined that she moved out of their house in 2023 attributable to marital points, and rented three townhouses – insisting that she is the one individual on all three leases.
‘Starting on July 4, 2025, I’ve repeatedly advised Aaron that he’s not allowed at any of my townhouses anymore, but he has repeatedly entered the townhouses unexpectedly,’ she added.
In addition to pleading for Phypers to stay 100 yards away, Richards requested that he return her laptops and the whole lot that he allegedly downloaded from her gadgets.
The pair met at Quantum, a therapeutic middle in Malibu the place he labored, they usually started relationship in 2017, earlier than tying the knot the next 12 months.
Their ceremony, and far of their relationship, was documented for the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills – which Richards starred on on the time.
Phypers, who has not addressed the abuse claims publicly, filed for divorce on July 4, looking for spousal help and for his or her property and money owed to be stored as separate property.
Richards was beforehand married to Charlie Sheen, and shares daughters Sami and Lola with him.
She additionally adopted teenage daughter Eloise in 2011.
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