Denise Richards husband Aaron Phypers accused of abuse in court docket docs
Aaron Phypers ‘recordsdata for divorce from Denise Richards’
Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers have referred to as time on their relationship.
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Denise Richards is accusing her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Aaron Phypers, of years of alleged bodily and verbal abuse, submitting a brief restraining order towards him this week.
In court docket paperwork reviewed by USA TODAY, the longtime Hollywood fixture chronicled the alleged abuse by the hands of Phypers, writing, “Aaron recurrently threatened to ‘break my jaw’ and would cry, beg me to remain, and promise to get assist — none of which ever occurred.”
Richards, 54, wrote within the request to the choose, filed Wednesday, July 16: “Aaron has triggered me no less than three concussions. Aaron has instructed me that he has left recording gadgets to document me whereas I used to be alone in lodge rooms and at my townhouses.”
USA TODAY has reached out to a consultant for Richards for remark.
The pair, who had been married in 2018, are mid-divorce after Phypers filed earlier this month.
“All through our marriage, Aaron threatened to kill me and himself and the police. He owns no less than 8 unregistered weapons,” Richards attested within the paperwork. A number of images are connected on the backside of the submitting, one during which Richards has a black eye, which she claims was the results of Phypers’ abuse.
Richards, who was beforehand married to fellow actor Charlie Sheen from 2002 to 2007, has been with Phypers, a businessman, for seven years. He appeared sporadically on Bravo actuality collection “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” throughout her stint on the present in addition to on her solo Bravo collection “Denise Richards and Her Wild Issues.”
The mother of three and Phypers don’t share youngsters collectively, and the 2 youngsters Richards shares with Sheen weren’t talked about within the restraining order, which the choose partially granted.
Aaron Phypers responds to Denise Richards’ abuse claims
In a July 17 assertion to Folks journal and Us Weekly, Phypers denied his estranged spouse’s claims of bodily and emotional abuse, slamming the allegations as “fully false and deeply hurtful.”
“Let me be unequivocally clear: I’ve by no means bodily or emotionally abused Denise — or anybody,” Phypers instructed the shops. “Denise and I, like many {couples}, have confronted our share of challenges, however any suggestion of abuse is categorically unfaithful. I’ve all the time tried to method our marriage with love, persistence and respect.”
He added: “I ask for privateness as we navigate private issues, and I hope that the general public and media will chorus from spreading dangerous and baseless claims.”
Denise Richards particulars alleged July 4 altercation with Aaron Phypers
Citing a current occasion of abuse, Richards claimed that over the July 4 vacation, Phypers, 49, beat her and broke into her non-public messages, urging the choose to keep in mind the seriousness of the assaults and her concern that it could be repeated.
“On July 4, 2025, Aaron repeatedly bought inside two inches of my face and screamed at me degrading profanities,” Richards wrote. “Aaron repeatedly grabbed my left arm tightly. On July 5, 2025, Aaron got here into my townhouse together with his father and bought inside inches of my face and commenced yelling at me … together with his proper hand violently hit the invoice of my hat with the again of his hand, which triggered my hat to fly off my head.
“Later that day, Aaron chased me and grabbed each of my arms forcefully and pushed me and dragged me to the bottom. I landed arduous on the steps inflicting me immense ache,” the submitting continues. “Aaron stole my laptop computer and despatched non-public textual content messages he had stolen from my laptop computer with out my permission. Aaron threatened that I might ‘disappear’ if I referred to as the police.”
Richards maintained that she had shunned reporting the abuse earlier for concern that it could end in extra injury.
“Till now, I’ve been afraid to report Aaron to the police or file for a restraining order as a result of he has repeatedly threatened to kill himself and me if I reported him to the police,” she wrote, including that that was solely one among a number of threats he would levy if she had been to get legislation enforcement concerned.
Later within the paperwork, Richards alleged that whereas she was asleep Phypers went into her laptop computer and downloaded all the pieces from her iCloud account, taking images of her non-public textual content messages and transferring them to his laptop computer. The “Drop Useless Attractive” and “Love Truly” star goes on to say that Phypers screamed expletives at her, and smashed her over the pinnacle whereas she was on the bathroom, demanding that she hand her cellphone over.
Within the order, she is demanding that he haven’t any contact together with her, staying away from each her house and office and returning the digital gadgets she claims he stole.
For those who or somebody you realize is a sufferer of home violence, name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or textual content “START” to 88788.
(This story was up to date so as to add new data.)
Contributing: Edward Segarra, USA TODAY