Aaron Phypers ‘information for divorce from Denise Richards’
Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers have known 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 in opposition to him this week.
In courtroom paperwork reviewed by USA TODAY, the longtime Hollywood fixture chronicled the alleged abuse by the hands of Phypers, writing, “Aaron usually 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 induced me not less than three concussions. Aaron has advised me that he has left recording gadgets to report 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 have 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 not less than 8 unregistered weapons,” Richards attested within the paperwork. A number of images are hooked up on the backside of the submitting, one through 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 sequence “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” throughout her stint on the present in addition to on her solo Bravo sequence “Denise Richards and Her Wild Issues.”
The mother of three and Phypers don’t share kids collectively, and the 2 kids 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 Individuals 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 advised the retailers. “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, endurance 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 latest occasion of abuse, Richards claimed that over the July 4 vacation, Phypers, 49, beat her and broke into her personal messages, urging the choose to take into consideration the seriousness of the assaults and her worry 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 along with his father and bought inside inches of my face and commenced yelling at me … along with his proper hand violently hit the invoice of my hat with the again of his hand, which induced 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 laborious on the steps inflicting me immense ache,” the submitting continues. “Aaron stole my laptop computer and despatched personal textual content 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 maintained that she had avoided reporting the abuse earlier for worry that it could lead to extra harm.
“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 certainly one of a number of threats he would levy if she have been to get regulation enforcement concerned.
Later within the paperwork, Richards alleged that whereas she was asleep Phypers went into her laptop computer and downloaded every little thing from her iCloud account, taking images of her personal textual content messages and transferring them to his laptop computer. The “Drop Useless Beautiful” and “Love Really” 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 along with her, staying away from each her residence and office and returning the digital gadgets she claims he stole.
For those who or somebody you already know 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
